Summer's Eye Update, etc.

The Good News: Summer's eye is healing well. There is no infection and there is not a cataract forming as of yet. We still have some waiting to do because it can take up to a month to develop, but we should know for sure at her next appointment, in 3 weeks.

More Good News: As of this evening, we only have to give her one kind of eye drop 4 times a day, as opposed to 3 kinds of eye drops, one being 6 times a day, one 4 times a day and one 2 times a day. Yay! Less stress and trauma for us all! Also, she doesn't need to wear that eye shield anymore, which is great. The medical tape that held it on, even the most gentle tape we could find, caused her sensitive skin to bleed from taking it on and off. We had to cover her cheek in band-aids. Hopefully now, it can heal.

The Bad News: Summer will need vision correction as soon as her surgery, to remove her stitches in 6 weeks, is over. Her injured eye will always need help focusing. The doctor seemed surprised that we did not know that. Nope, no one mentioned that the 20/20 vision that he said was quite possible after she heals would be because of glasses. As her mom my first reaction to hearing that was to think that there is no way my perfect little girl was going to walk around with glasses. But it is what it is. I'm still really upset about it, but Joe and I are still so thankful that something worse didn't happen and I have to keep reminding myself of that. Bridgett, good timing with taking your kids to the eye doctor. Believe it or not, when I remembered you were dealing with having to get glasses for your little ones, it made me feel a lot better. Our kids are just going to look smarter than all of the others ;)


I'm going to be starting to baby-sit my nephew, Xavier, tomorrow while my SIL works. He's about 4 months old. He's a good baby but I'm still not sure how dealing with a baby and two toddlers is going to go. I've watched him quite a few times before but not day after day. Wish me luck!

I'd better go... Camryn and Summer need to go to bed and I promised Joe I would be off of here at 7:45 so he could play World of Warcraft. I think I might start a Widows of WoW club, anybody wanna join??

Good Morning America

Sorry I didn't get to update sooner. Summer's surgery went well. The doctor came and talked with us while she was in recovery and explained how it went and what exactly was wrong. He said it was a really bad injury. Jack's claw tore through her iris, and down deeper into her cornea. She also had a spot on her lens that looked like it could possibly turn into a trauma-induced cataract. He was able to stitch the tear, but he had to leave the iris/pupil misshapen for now so that he could observe the spot on her lens to see if the cataract gets bigger. If it does, we'll know in a few weeks probably and they will have to do a second surgery to remove it, and then re-form the iris around the pupil. If the cataract does not appear, we will still have the option of doing a small surgery to re-form the iris.

He said that she will not lose vision either way, unless something happened such as more trauma to the eye or it gets an infection. That was our biggest concern so we feel relieved. We have to put three different kinds of drops in her eyes three times a day. That should be interesting... she would barely let me give her Motrin this morning for her pain.

It was of course another traumatic day for us all as you can imagine. She's just so little. She doesn't understand what's going on at all. They gave her medicine to calm her before they took her yesterday and she got pretty out-of-it, but that didn't stop her from screaming and clinging to me for dear life as they took her away to surgery. She was a tired, drugged-up mess last night and this morning doesn't seem to be any different. She's in a lot of pain, I'm really hoping that goes away soon. She's been keeping her good eye closed, I suppose it's hard for her to keep the painful eye closed and the other open. She's got an appointment at the eye doctor at 3pm today, they're going to take her eye shield off and make sure everything looks okay.

I feel so drained, and exhausted, physically and emotionally. I have even more sympathy now for parents of kids going through things far worse, I don't know how they do it.

So how bout that election? I am so excited. I feel like I woke up in a new, better country today. There are so many people today that feel the same way I do, and I know there are others that are disappointed. I just really hope that democrat or republican, we can all pull together and get things moving in the right direction.

I'll let you guys watch this video I just took if you promise not to look at how stained our carpet is right now. Darn kids.




Summer is calling for me and I need to go get her before she tries to walk blindly to me. Have a good Wednesday :)