"dave" <nospam> wrote in message
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> Night before last he went blind. Noticed his eyes were completely red
> when they used to be brown. I took him to the vet yesterday and the
blood
> test showed he had no platelets in his blood. The vet said his eyes
were
> full of blood. Small spots of blood on the tip of his tongue. The vet
> also said his blood pressure was around 200/100.
>
> My dog is about 12 years old and up till now had always been healthy.
> This all comes as a shock to me. Has anybody ever heard of an
affliction
> such as this? The vet recommends putting him to sleep because the
problem
> will only get worse and because he's an outside dog he won't cope with
> being blind to well.
If it was only blindness he was coping with, I'd keep him around. Dogs
(even
outside dogs) can adjust to being blind, but it isn't. The blindness seems
to me from what you've said to be just the most visible symptom.
Platelets are crucial in your (and his) body's ability to keep blood where
its supposed to be (I.e. inside the body, out of the eyes etc). Something
else is causing his platelet count to be low (I'm assuming he had some,
just
not very many).
Its never easy, but my gut reaction would be to give him a peaceful end
and
euthanize him, rather than risk him bleeding out internally.
Dale
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