A story.............

Kanter lost an eye........

Thimpa was a cute girl who used to work with her mother, Tashi in the food corner. It was a kind of small restaurant where both used to sell freshly prepared Mo-Mos. Mo-Mos were a kind of small steamed packets of wheat maida stuffed  with mutton. Thimpa enjoyed cooking as well as selling Mo-Mos. The soup prepared in their food corner was liked by all so most of the local preffered to enjoy Mo-Mos there.

Kanter was the small Lahasa Apso dog that was Thimpa's pet. Kanter loved to eat Left out Mo-Mos and bones. This way it served as a scavanger too for them. Kanter's hair were quite long so his eyes were covered most of the times. One day while she was serving the soup and Mo-Mos to a customer, Kanter came running inside the restaurant.

Watching a dog entering there, the customer became so angry that he threw hot soup over his face. Kanter cried in pain of the burn. Thimpa was so touched to see her poor pet crying in pain. She was annoyed with customer too but didn't say anything to him, simply called Tashi and handed over Kanter to her.

Tashi went inside the room and examined the face of Kanter, his eyeball was looking very red. She immediately entered the food corner and asked Thimpa to take Kanter to the vet. Tashi took over the job of serving the other customers in restaurant and Tashi was on the way to the veterinary clinic that was about 40 Km from her home.

When she reached at the clinic, it was already closed. She had no other option than to come back and go there next morning. At home Tashi applied a cream on eyelids of Kanter but didn't put  anything inside eye, she didn't want to do any harm with her little knowledge to poor dog's eye. Next morning Thimpa reached at sharp 10:00 at vet's clinic. The doctor there tried to examine Kanter's eye but he didn't allow. He had become too furious too touch, so he was put under general sedation for proper examination.

Kanter was being examined in the operation theatre and Thimpa was waiting outside in the hospital lawn. After about twenty minutes, the doctor came out and told her that his eyeball was badly damaged and the vision in that eye was completely lost. He prescribed antiobiotics and some other medicines that Thimpa didn't know what those were.Thimpa came back home and regularly gave Kanter, the medicines prescribed by vet.

After about a week, she noticed something oozing out from the damaged eye. It was pus. That meant Kanter's wound was not healing properly, it had become infected. It was about 11 am so she ran in her car with Kanter to the veterinary clinic. Again the same procedure of sedation was followed and finally doctor said that his eyeball will have to be extripated.

Thimpa was shocked and began crying but since there was no hope left, she signed the surgical risk note.

Surgery was going on in the operation theatre and Thimpa was weeping silently in the lawn outside the vet clinic.