I apologize for not writing a post lately. I haven’t had time. Today is the first day since Monday that we haven’t been running to one or more doctors. Lion’s eye pressure last Friday was 4. That worried the doctor so much, he sent us to a retinal specialist. His eye was sort of collapsing. Who knew that was possible?
The retinal specialist confirmed the choroid was separating and the only way to fix that was to add pressure to his eye. How do they do that? Lion went in Tuesday for the glaucoma doctor to inject some sort of goop into his eye. Basically, they pumped up the tire. On Wednesday, the retinal specialist checked his pressure and it was back down to two or three. The theory was that the tube, put in Thursday, was doing its job too well. Back to surgery.
On Thursday, Lion had his third surgery in eight days. The glaucoma doc sutured the tube closed and reinflated his eye. Friday morning, we were back to have the bandage removed and the pressure checked. It was ten. That was lower than the doctor had anticipated. He’s going to call us today to let us now when to meet him at the office on Sunday. Sunday! That’s amazing. Not only Sunday, but the Sunday of a holiday weekend. That’s incredible.
Of course, we also have appointments with the glaucoma doctor and the retinal doctor next week. I just hope next week is not like this past week. I don’t know if either one of us can handle that.
In all this time, Lion hasn’t been able to see. The choroid is still detached and blocking the retina. Since his left eye is mostly useless, he’s essentially blind.
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