Update on Steves injured eye. Thank you for every prayer offered up for the healing of Steves eye and our well being as this journey unfolds. Thanking God for protecting Steves eye through this first full day! Steve was able to sleep after about 2 am. We were back in the doctors office at 8 am and spent several hours there today. Steve is doing OK with all of this... Today was unpleasant and the five different eye drops added around the clock are a pain. The stitching across the cornea looks good although a bit of torn lens is protruding through the stitches on the cornea. The cornea cleared a bit over night but, is still too cloudy to let light into the eye. Today, the doctor removed virtuous (and hopefully some blood clots) by needle from within the eye and injected an antibiotic back into the virtuous. The subtracting and adding is to keep the internal eye pressure as close to normal as possible. Infection continues to be the greatest risk as we wait for the cornea to clear. We declined a second opinion from Emory today as we are praying the cornea will clear enough for light to pass through into the eye. Every hour the metal is in the eye the risk of infection is great. Pray we will know if God would have us go on to Emory. We go back to the retina specialist in Athens tomorrow and everyday from now until the metal is removed. We found out today that a team at Emory would probably opt to go ahead and remove the cornea and replace it with an artificial cornea while removing the metal, lens, blood debris and virtuous. The corneal transplant would follow at the end of that first surgery. So Steve would come out of that surgery with a new and clear cornea. A few weeks after the corneal transplant a lens would be transplanted. As of this moment we are praying the cornea clears enough to let light in for the Athens surgeon to do the lens-ectomy, remove the metal and clean up the virtuous. We have a great respect for Dr. Iyer, already. Workmans Compensation called today and gave us a case number and assigned a nurse to attend every doctors visit beginning Thursday. (Not sure if I like that idea but, it is what it is.) Tomorrow we may say, yes to Emory giving us a second opinion. We covet your prayers in doing what God would have us do each step of the way. I really do dread the commute to Emory but, I dont want that dread to influence our decision.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:52:41 +0000
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