Baby Girl's background is a little foggy since we adopted her (she was dropped off at around 4 months of age or so because of her eye). But here is the information that we do have, i.e. the things that have occurred since she came to live with us:
--We took her in to see the vet almost immediately after we got her because we wanted to be sure that her eye wasn't causing her any pain and to see if she would need to have it removed since it stuck out a bit. The eye is white in the center and the rest is a healthy black color. The vet thinks that it is either genetic or the result of an injury that she got at a young age. He thinks that it may need to be removed eventually.
--we took her in again when her eye filled up with blood. She had been running around and had been startled and hit her head just barely on the bottom of the couch during a failed/miscalculated jump. We assume that the resulting blood that filled her eye 1-2 days later was from this. This was very scary and we could see the blood moving in her eye when we would tilt her head up, down or to the side. The vet said that it was probably a result of what ever injury had occurred, whether it be the couch incident or the one that caused the whiteness in her eye and that it should eventually drain on its own and that it may reoccur from time to time but hasn't come back since. The blood drained in a little under a month.
--She has had the occasional Myco issues but we catch them early, when the prophyn (spelling?) shows up before the breathing kicks in above a slight wheeze. We treat her and they go away quickly. The other rats have only had one bout of Myco and it was a result of Ghost's constant myco problems before we moved her to another area away from other rats (she preferred GREATLY to be alone anyhow). Baby Girl's come back from time to time and she has had 3 myco infections since we got her.
--Baby Girl's bad eye gets the occasional very slight prophyn to it but her good eye seems to have it pretty often to the point where, while on my boyfriend's shoulder while he was leaning on the wall, her eye left a lot of red "blood marks" on the wall where she had been leaning and sleeping. Her good eye right now looks horrid with plenty of staining. Her nose is clear of any discoloration, she is perky, neurotic about her wheel, and taking food and drink normally. She is totally healthy other than her two eyes and the slight wheeze she has going on which we are treating. The wheeze can only be heard when you listen with your ear to her chest.
--Another of Baby Girl's "perks" (other than her constant sweet grapey scent) is that she can't be scruffed. If you scruff her she will scream bloody murder, fling urine around, spin as hard as she can and go into a mad terror run where she is impossible to touch, unheard of to hold and she runs around in blind terror! She will scream at the top of her lungs if you even touch her! She also has a spot on her back where, if you touch it on accident, she will stiffen, her ears go back and flat, and she occasionally squeaks, she hates being touched in that spot. We have no idea what is wrong with her with that whole scruffing or spot thing... She also doesn't like other rats and will bite them through the cage bars given half the chance whether she is in the cage or she is the one out of the cage. Willow has had many terrifying incidences where she couldn't get her hand back from Baby Girl's teeth without Mommy or Daddy intervening.
Anyhow, that's the total medical (and additional) background for Baby Girl.
