Disjointed Digression

This morning we woke up somewhat early. With the rain we decided to stay home and do nothing. Loki decided to change that for us, involuntarily. Loki’s nictitating membrane (third eyelid) was partially covering his left eye, and it looked like it was stuck (Similar to the picture, which is not Loki.) Not knowing what to do we tried massaging his closed eye trying to get the membrane to return to the corner of his eye. That had no effect. So Candy thought that if we put some of her eye/contact drops in his eye maybe that would help. When we tried to do that, he just closed his eye and his head got wet. So Candy called the emergency veterinarian, and they said to bring him in. So we packed him into his carrier and got him into the car. While Candy drove, I had Loki in the back seat so I could see him. We had gotten about three blocks form the house and I looked into the carrier and Loki’s eye looked normal now. So I pulled him out of the carrier and got a good look, and sure enough he was fine, so we turned around and went home. We decided that if the problem came back, we’d just threaten to take him to vet again.

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