Eye Surgery

Nephew Bunny is back home.

The first emergency room doctor did not realize how serious the injury was, not being an opthomologist.

He had them wait till Monday to "see" as referal.

Turns out the next largest hospital 20 miles away or so had an opthomologist on the ER staff.

As it turned out, the wire had not just scratched the eye, but had penitrated almost to the retina.

By Monday he had an infection that took his lens and began to damage his eye permanently.

The infection was cleaned up.

But a few days later, he needed a booster of antibiotics.

Here came the painful part.

What's the phrase?,

"It's better than a sharp stick in the eye."


Two needles

in

the

eye.

"Look at the great big, looonnnggg needle coming at your eye,
but don't blink!"

(Zelda had me tell him, that if he wanted to Play Pirate, we would have been happy to buy him a eye patch.)

Eye surgery is one of those (many) things that freak me out.

The pain was so intense that he couldn't keep anything down all night.

Monday he goes to meet the local referal.

Best case.

The white cells will brake loose from his retina and he will regain full vision with the use of a contact lens.

Worse case.

He will only gain partial vision with the use of a contact.