Adeline continues to struggle in the vision department. Her right eye is extremely farsighted and turns in when trying to focus on objects up close. We have tried to correct the strain that pulls her eye inward by changing her prescription but were unsuccessful. I knew in my guy that we would eventually face surgery and that day has come.
We have switched doctors and love her new ophthalmologist. We feel that he gives her exceptional care and wouldn't perform the surgery if he wasn't confident that it was worth trying. Hopefully, she will fall in the 65% of kids that come out of the surgery with a fixed eye. We will have to see. There is another 25% that walk away with a close to fixed eye and I would be okay with that too. I fear the eye that won't fix! I pray that this doesn't happen to Adeline.
Tomorrow is a complicated day. Adeline has to arrive at the hospital at 7:15 which forces one parent to go and one to stay home and get the other two off to school. Alex is going to take her. I HATE not going. She remembers that I didn't go to her last surgery which was tubes and doesn't really fall under a surgery in my book. When recalling that surgery, Adeline told me that the doctors put the mask on her face and told her lay down and look the speaker in the ceiling. The doctors told her daddy would talk to her through the speaker and could hear her talking to him. Adeline then asked, "Why weren't you there? I wanted you to talk to me on the speaker."
OUCH!
Wish my little Adeline well tomorrow. I have some anxiety about this surgery for some reason. I just want my astronaut Jet up and running around again soon.
