I know this one is going to be tough one to answer.  Just this past week all of a sudden Nova can not find her way the way she used to.  I've been trying hard to watch her whenever I can to see if I can document some speciific symptoms.  It makes it all the more difficult because she has apparently been 100% blind since last April. She found her way around so well we always suspected she might have some sort of vision left all that time.  But every visit with the opthamologist they said she was indeed blind in both eyes.  Ok.  Well now she moves very, very slowly and bumps into everything.  She is so tentative she often stops and whines until I come and grab her collar and guide her to where she wants to go.  She can't even find her water dish.  She is even more lethargic (if that can even be possible for a couch potato like Nova).  She basically lays on the couch all day, getting up twice to eat and pee. That's it.  Occasionally she will get up in the night and when she does she just stands and whines. The weird thing is that every time I approach her, her tail wags and she seems happy.

The only thing I notice her doing that is different is that she shakes her head all the time, pretty much any time she's up. You know, like dogs do, flap the ears like they do when they are wet.  I thought perhaps it might be an ear infection (she just finished a round of antibiotics for her cough scare, which is now gone), but this problem seemed to occur right after the course of antibiotics were done.  As I have also posted recently, we had chest x-rays recently and they were clear.

So I've got the whining and the head shaking/ear flapping that I am concerned about, plus her confusion and not being able to find her way. The worrywart side of me worries that something might be in her brain, another side of me says maybe she wasn't 100% blind before and now she is and maybe things will improve in a few days. Or perhaps the pressure is up in her one eye from her glaucoma... I know the pressure can drive her bananas.  So I am trying to figure out what to do.  Go to the regular vet to see if it is an ear infection?  Go to the opthamologist to see if her eye pressure is up?  Or go to the oncologist to see if the cancer has spread to her brain?  I am so financially drained I can't possibly do all 3. 

Any advice or ideas?  I am just stumped.

Sue