My 4 year old King charles had his anal glands removed and had a cardiac arrest during the op and suffered cerebal anoxia.Pleased to say he is making a recovery, can now walk although wobbly,and hear but is not seeing.Has anyone any experience of a dog making a full recovery GLYN

Hi Glyn

I have not had experience of this in dogs, just humans, and has it been explained that it is lack of oxygen to the brain which may well have killed off part of it?

In human babies something called "patterning" is carried out with the aim of creating new pathways within the brain so that they take over from the damaged sections.

Get a small torch and shine it into his eye
1 second on
2 seconds off
and do this 20 times in each eye
In babies and young children patterning (different exercises for different parts of the body) can take over your day and take many hours but I would repeat the above at least 10 times a day with breaks in-between or as often as you can manage.

If the optic nerve has been damaged it won't help, but if his neural pathways have then it might. The best way I can describe it is that he may be able to see but not understand - like hearing a foreign language, you can hear the words but have no idea what they are or any way of interpreting them.

Christine

thanks for the suggestion i will start straight away and will let you know how i go on.

It is a few years since I had to do this but I think I had to make a note of whether the pupils dilated and by how much and whether it changed.

Please let us know how you get on

Christine

BOTH HIS PUPILS DILATE AND DO SO VERY QUICKLY.STARTED EXERCISES YESTERDAY AND NOW IS TURNING AWAY FROM THE LIGHT.I'M STILL HOPEFUL
GLYN