Cyst after enucleation

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I'm trying to define this in TCM terms, and am drawing a blank. My dog had

her eye removed over 2 years ago, (I don't know exactly when, since she had

it removed before I adopted her), and just recently developed a lump under

the sewn shut eyelid. We finally opted for surgery, to find out what is

going on, and a cyst had developed. Certainly there is Qi Stagnation in the

eye socket, (just an empty space now), and there must have been some Damp

accumulation. Any thoughts on what to consider the problem from a TCM point

of view? She is a basically healthy girl, (adult, but not senior dog). Her

other eye never developed completely, (don't know if the one that had been

removed developed or not. Supposedly it had been injured and removed, but I

have no idea what really happened), so she is completely blind, but she does

not let that slow her down at all. She is very active, having recently

earned an obedience title, (one of the first blind dogs to do so), and has

passed the tests to be a therapy dog, which I think she'll also love. She

loves taking part in activities, loves people and other animals, and doesn't

let much of anything bother her. She does tend towards Stomach Yin

deficiency, (with small appetite and limited desire to drink water), but

that hasn't been showing symptoms lately, so I think that has been pretty

well resolved. Obviously, I'd like to keep her from having any more cysts,

or any other problems with the eye socket, so I'm trying to work out what

happened. (From the Western Medicine point of view, no one is sure what

really happened, either. This seems to be an uncommon thing.)

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

Jeri