Those of you on fb know things went really well but I can now actually give an update than just tell you we survived.
Okay first Jer wanted me to put up some shots of Addie as sort of a before (though there I am sure you have seen them ;)
This was about 8 months ago.
And this was taken a couple weeks ago.
So onto the actual surgery. We had to be at the surgery center at 7:30 and it is about 45 min away - in other words we had an early morning for this household.
We didn't have to wait very long before we were able to go back to prep for surgery. (In hindsight, Addie's face to her nurse was rather funny.)
The unfortunate part was they wanted to dilate her eyes again which added to our prep time. I of course forgot my camera so we were taking this pictures with Jeremy's phone.
All things considered I think Addie handled everything well.
Her surgery took a little more than an hour. She was so sad after coming out of anesthesia but we had been well prepared about what to expect with this surgery. Here she is with Jeremy and I in the recovery room right before we went home.
So here are some after shots. Her eyes are now horizontally perfect. She will need one more surgery because she has a vertical lift in one of her eyes (that means only one eye needs the surgery not both) but it's slight.
You can see how red her eyes are now. That should be mostly gone by the end of this week and completely gone by the end of the month.
Before I go (Addie is awake from her nap!) I do need to give a shout out to my mom and my little sister, Carly. They came to help and made a really stressful time ALOT easier. Not to mention that Addie fell in love with Carly and followed her around everywhere.
We also got some girl time. Here is one of them.
Addie was very proud of her toes after Carly painted them that she had me take a picture. lol.
7 comments:
I can't wait to see those beautiful eyes in real life!
I can only imagine that having your baby girl taken away for surgery is totally overwhelming! So happy that it went well. She has always been, and will always be completely beautiful!
Wow I am so glad everything is looking better...amazing what they can do these days!
Ummm, ok, so I may be a tad emotional, ::sniff, sniff::, I miss you guys and I'm trying really hard not to cry right not (kind of succeeding).
ME TOO, STEPH!!! I'm so glad things went well and precious miss Addie is SO beautiful!
Wow! Thats amazing! I love the gift of sight. Does she tell you that things look different?
Thank you all for the kindness.
Em, actually her eyes were misaligned enough that her brain was simply silencing one of them. Since the brain doesn't like to see double if you have enough of a misalignment the brain just turns off one image at a time. So at the moment there is still enough misalignment so that both eyes aren't working together. 1 More surgery on a different set of muscles should fix that though.
Thank you all for your concern. we love her crosseyed or not and now she is much less crosseyed.
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