Thursday, November 11, 2010

Opthalmoligist Appointment Update

Today I was at the Primary Children's Moran Eye Center in Riverton for nearly 4 hours because they were very busy. It was BORING! I was tired, thirsty, and hungry. Ryan and Kaylee were at home the whole time dying of some wretched flu that had me panicking last night while I watched Ryan's fever climb.

The diagnosis is a congenital cataract. This means he will be having surgery on Friday the 19th to remove the cloudiness and then he will wear an artificial lens until he is two. When he is two they will put a new lens in that will be permanent. The idea is to get his eye working well enough that they can both develop together and he doesn't just stop using his bad eye and get "lazy eye". There may be a series of battles in the future to ensure his eye is working but hopefully we will have a lot of luck!
If you want to know more, I found this site to be relevant.
http://www.douglips.com/articles/cataracts/

That $450 I paid to add Kevin, Kaylee, and Ryan to my insurance at BYU was probably the best investment ever!

2 comments:

Karen said...

STACEY, GLAD TO HEAR THAT THIS CAN BE FIXED. IS IT ONLY IN ONE EYE? KEVIN HAS HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE. HE IS DARLING AND WILL BE FINE, BUT IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE US WORRY A LITTLE. LOVE YOU ALL, G.

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