09/09/2025
My little lady ❤️
Beebs woke up on the 20th of last month with a squinty left eye and her third eyelid covering like half of her eye. Took her in to work that morning and we stained her eye, no scratch or ulcer was noted so we started her on ointment for conjunctivitis. Poor girl wasn't doing better so I reached out to a coworker and she was like "is she in a cone?!" And I felt SO stupid in that moment because no, no she wasn't haha. Got a cone overnighted and had her eye restained to be sure she didn't cause a scratch or an ulcer due to not being a cone. Still no stain uptake so continued the ointment. A week later, very minimal improvement so I texted my coworker Julianna again and she was like "that's giving Horner's" and had me check her pupils with a light, sure enough. One pupil was smaller. One of the doctors I work with very kindly let me bring her in on a Saturday when she was extremely busy so she could take a look at her. She was also stumped as to what was going on but couldn't say Horner's for sure as she didn't show all the symptoms and besides the third eyelid, she had none and of course her pupil looked normal at that time. A few days later and still no improvement, I put in a referral this past Saturday to go see Opthamology at AVCC and we got an appt for this morning. Dr. Jost was great and thinks Beebs' does have Horner's Syndrome (Go Juli for getting it right!) but unknown what caused it. It can be ideopathic, it could be trauma, it could be a brain tumor. Beebs also has a little bit of dry eye so she gave us some eye l**e on top of some new eye drops. I have her scheduled to come back in to work Thurs to do some sedated chest rads and bloodwork while we wait for her recheck in 5 weeks. 🤞🤞🤞 it's ideopathic or something easily treatable. Special thank you to all of my coworkers for listening to me & brainstorming with me to help figure out what's going on with this girl, and thank you to all the doctors I work with for always making time for us. ❤️
