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The eyelid is involved in many diseases that we see and treat on a regular basis. Its function to protect the eye is an important one, whether it be to act as a barrier to prevent direct trauma, to limit bright light irritation or to distribute the tear over the corneal surface. Some species have an extra lid where others have no lids at all! I’ll take a couple of posts to address the lids and we will concentrate on congenital issues here. So take off your lid and stay awhile as we talk about the eyelid and some of
Continue reading Put a lid on it!
A common comment veterinarians hear is about how our job is so difficult with a patient that cannot tell us what is wrong. Well, sometimes less is more! Our patients talk to us in different ways with clinical signs and symptoms that help us determine what and where the problem is without the confusion of speculation and interpretation and emotional embellishment of those features that we all do as humans. We use our senses and powers of observation along with listening to the heart and lungs and palpation of the body to get most of the answers in general practice.
Continue reading How do you see what you’re doing?
I can’t believe the way time has sped along here in the Northeastern United States. We have gone from storm to storm this year, enduring “hurricanes” in the summer to heavy snow at Halloween which combined for almost 2 weeks of life without power at both my home and the clinic. No good sales on generators this holiday season you can bet! Thanks to battery powered equipment, we were able to cobble together a service for those of you with non-surgical problems that inspection, conversation and medication could provide an answer. Thanks to all who survived these times and even
Continue reading Looking ahead to the New Year
Sassie and Dr. Stuhr
It has been a decade since I became the sole owner of the Animal Eye Clinic in Wilton and it stuns me to think of all that has happened over that time. When Dr. David Covitz gave me the keys and I promptly found the basement in the old clinic had flooded the next morning, it hit me right between the eyes that this was now my baby to care for and shape into the practice I wanted it to be. Ten years later, I can gladly say that the journey so far has been a
Continue reading My Ten Year Anniversary
An ongoing concern for both doctor and patient is the use, accessibility, cost and delivery of medications for ourselves and our patients. You can’t go a day without reading in the newspaper about a recall of a drug, an unexpected side effect or misuse of a medication that created significant complication. Whether a drug is for human or veterinary use or both, there will always be questions as to how to treat, when to treat, where to get, what to expect and how cheap can I get it to make life easier for all involved.
Left me wax poetic a bit
Continue reading The Confusing World of Drugs
Well, finally the snow has cleared and the Northeastern United States is no longer looking like the Arctic. The only snow that remains around here are the frozen remnants of the largest piles of plowed snow with bits and pieces of driveway gravel left in its wake. After a long period of hibernation, out peeks a crocus and the hints of daffodils which harken to warmer days that we strain to remember. And in a flash, people wil be complaining about the humidity and be hunting for shade! The joy of living in a seasonal climate!
As the Spring season begins,
Continue reading Spring has sprung…and with it…
Ok, enough already! I get it, we live here for a reason, get to enjoy all the seasons and the diversity they bring to our lives. I like to ski, go sledding with my kids, build the occasional snowman. I have lived in more temporate and more severe climates so I have a nice barometer on weather variation and I do love the activities that each season allows. But I think we all agree….enough of the white stuff already! We have got nowhere to put it!
In all seriousness, we are trying our best, like most businesses, to keep ourselves
Continue reading Too Much White Stuff!!!
I had to post this picture of Ozzy Posey and his family with his festive Elizabethan collar! Fortunately his corneal erosion has finally healed. The bad news is he won’t be needing the collar any more! Merry Christmas, Ozzy!!!
The AEC reception area
Welcome to the Holiday edition of the Animal Eye Clinic in Wilton, Connecticut!
To date I have posted medical information and photographs of some disease states that may be of interest. But today, as Thanksgiving has quickly passed us by and the Christmas holiday bears down on us, I decided to wax poetic about something I feel strongly about: Customer Service.
I am one of those folks who really enjoys this time of year. One of the reasons is that many people seem to embrace the Christmas spirit and actually start treating people nicely, are thinking of giving
Continue reading Season’s Greetings!
We see a lot of patients of all species that present with a complaint of cataracts in either or both eyes. I decided to post our owner information sheet that we give out if cataracts are present and cataract surgery is a consideration. A few basic points that I thought I would stress. 1) Nuclear sclerosis is an old aging change of the lens where the lenses appear grey but are not truly opaque and are often misconstrued for cataract. This is an increase in density of the lens that we see commonly in older patients. 2) Cataracts are
Continue reading Cataracts in the Dog
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Hours: Monday-Thursday:
8:30AM-5PM
Friday:
8:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday:
closed
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