Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Eye Surgery



Hi Everyone

Jacob had his eye surgery today. I took a before and after photo. Allen went down with him to the anaesthetic as I thought I'd cry! The hospital were excellent and did lots of explaining to Jacob and us. I thought Dundee were good when we went in before but this experience was much better. It took longer than we thought for so we were a bit worried but they did call from the OR to tell us things were going fine. All went well, he's now very blood shot in both eyes and a bit swollen but he can see and is merrily watching TV to his hearts content.

Abi turned into a bit of a madam, I'm sure it's due to the extra attention her brother is getting. Off to the lego shop tomorrow to go and get the promised Star Wars lego set Jacob wants as he's been a very good boy so far.

Hope all's well

Rachael.

5 comments:

ceri said...

glad he got through surgery with no problems. hope his eyes feel better soon. why are they both red? did they do something to both? tell jacob he's a very brave kid and that i hope he gets better soon.

Rachael said...

Hi Ceri
They moved the muscle in both eyes. Had the post op appointment today and all's well. Next one in 6 weeks. Lego Star Wars ship is being played with at the moment. We got Owen one too as it was buy one get one free. Will send it tomorrow.
Rachael.

ceri said...

thanks, rachael, for the lego hookup. owen was terrible tonight at dinner with his eat-something-new procedure. i think taylor getting home late makes it harder--we didn't eat until 8 pm. owen was yawning and crying at the same time. he still can't get through half a baby carrot. he wouldn't even touch the tiny piece of potato i put on his plate.

Rachael said...

Hi Ceri
You spurred me into doing the new veg thing. It's not going brilliantly but it is making me cook more veg! As a child I remember only eating sweetcorn. A tomato didn't pass my lips until I was about 15!

carriesweatland said...

What a brave soul Jacob has! And you as well. Nice to know it went off without a hitch. Hopefully he finished with any eye troubles now. We've had a busy week, as it was the last week of summer session of pre-school and I covered for someone else as well. I forgot what working a full week was like. Our best, Carrie P.S. You should re-try a video, they've seem to made the upload much easier.