Tomorrow is upon us.......

Tomorrow is Sadie's 9th time under anesthesia......and we pray that surgery is not needed.  She will have the pressures checked, and the docs will get a good look at her optical nerves, corneas, size of the eye, etc and measure her eyes to determine the prescription.  

Prayers are appreciated for LOW NUMBERS and an easy day for our strong, brave, and amazing fighter!

January 2014

Happy New Year!  It's January, which means......

FIRST REAL PAIR OF APHAKIC GLASSES!!!!

Thanks to the generosity of fantastic friends and family, we were able to pick up Sadie's first pair of Aphakic glasses!!!  We drove to the clinic in Edina to pick them up over Joel's lunch break.  Drum roll please.......

 She loves them!!!  At the clinic she was staring at Joel, Emma, and myself with a big smile on her face.  Tears of joy came down my face - they've been coming all day!  
Admittedly, they are a bit shocking at first, since they are SUPER thick and magnify her eyes.  I have been familiar with this in pictures of other little ones online, but in my own daughter.....it was jarring at first.  But we're getting used to them QUICKLY since she has adapted so well and loves them!!!  She seems to be seeing things for the first time in months.  
Contact lenses are still the way to go, and we get that.  But temporarily, while she can't use the CL's after surgery, it's so nice to have a back-up.  Plus, if there's a day that we need to jet out of the house and can't battle the strong baby, then we can just try again later and still have the glasses so she can see God's good world.  :)  
Enjoy the pics!!!


 

Sadie's Christmas presents

Our presents to Sadie for Christmas!  Merry Christmas, darling!

Contact lens cases from the dollar section at Target.  :)

Because I'm too lazy to take a picture with my camera and then download it to my computer, I decided to take a picture with my webcam.  Hopefully you can all read the backwards print.  :)

Yes, we did get her other items, such as toys, but these were glasses/eyes related.  And super fun!

Excuse the language.....

Just to put a smile on your face (and mine)!

Saturday Post-Op

As we've normally had surgeries scheduled for the beginning of the week, having surgery on a Friday left us wondering how we'd handle the post-op.  Dr. G. to the rescue - she met us at the PWB building on campus where absolutely no one else was in the office.  The nice thing was that we got to chat with her for an extended period of time without being concerned that we were taking her away from other patients.  

Sadie's eye looks wonderful!  We are thrilled with how clear the cornea looks.  This morning we got a really good look at where the shunt(s) is located - it's a very tiny plastic tube that we can see at the very top of her cornea (the blue part), but you can only see it if you are shining a very bright light in that area.  It's fascinating, and gruesome at the same time.  :)  We discussed glasses vs. contacts further, and we have more information to understand where Dr. G. is coming from when she requests that Sadie should not wear the contact in her surgical eye for up to 4 weeks.  When the shunt is placed, there is a very tiny plastic piece underneath a fold in the very upper part of her eye, and the tube reaches down into her cornea.  The fear is that while this area is healing, the contact could not only irritate and possibly infect the surgical area, but there is the possibility that the contact lens could go underneath the fold and behind the eye.  

All together now......"GROSS".

So, we're working on a temporary pair of glasses, yet again.  They were not able to check her prescription, so we're getting a lens for her that is akin to a drug store lens - very simple prescription but SOMETHING while she can't wear both contacts.  Our amazing new friends loaned us two pairs of their daughter's glasses that she used when she was Sadie's age.  They are so generous!!!

Hang in there, Sades!  We're getting closer to a more stable life for you, my love!