Last night Steve mentioned that Sam's eye looked funny like his cornea was coming out....honestly I didn't pay much attention but thought to look today as I was doing eye drops...We don't normally open his "bad" eye, his left eye as it is small, it usually opened only a slit and we drop in his eye drops. His retina detected in that eye so he is black blind and sees nothing from it. The reason we put drops in is to make sure he doesn't get an infection that could go to the good eye... OH MY LORD....this is what I saw....
(this picture was taken with him on my lap and upside down so it doesn't really look quite this bad usually.)
My heart dropped and my blood ran cold! For real! I called Dr Aquevella and he told me to bring him in.... Well "bring him in" means going to NY. We are working on the details and timing, based on his schedule and our situation. I'll probably be going by myself with one of my other kids or a friend. It could be as early as next week or as late as the first week in May. Sam is not in pain and there is no infection. He has no sight in the eye. The thing we worry about is if it came out and ripped the eye and hurt him and then that would also be a way bacteria could get into the eye and cause an infection that could spread to his good eye. I don't know what they will do, maybe take the eye out altogether. All I can say is I'm glad that life is short, eternity is long and I have a God who walks with me. Although he has no sight....this was still a sucker punch in my gut.... Please pray for Sam!
Before I noticed Sam, I went walking with my BFF Kandi:) We have walked thousands of miles together, really, thousands over the last few years. We've worn out walking shoes. We both have 5 kids so this is our stress reliever...you can imagine I may need to start walking about 20 miles a day. We actually usually walk 3-5 miles a day. Obviously, I haven't been walking for awhile and I'm glad to be back to it. Our local hospital has a 1/2 mile cardiac walking path that has built in hills. This morning we walked it 6 times...there have been times coming up the big hill, that we were very glad to be near the ER LOL
We have 10 kids between the two of us ( and we each only have one husband LOL)
My usual morning walk
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From a year ago today.....
We left our sleeping boys on the couch to go see our girls. Look at their sweet heads!
Pigeons outside and all over the place!
Our 'street"
these are fuel lines connected to the apartment buildings. We saw them all over the place, instead of in the ground, they were in the air!
our neighborhood dog couple. they sat outside the first apartment door and barked at everyone.
Like the little old lady:)
She posed for me with the dog, who was growling LOL
the boys looking out at us waiting for our driver
the "Christmas" trees at the front of the institution
Sarah up!
Here we got a swiss roll at the store!
I made rice with chicken in it
Here is a video of Selah and Sarah
yes this is a new day...Selah has on the same dress...
while Sarah is sporting a boy's look
Please keep our family in your prayers.....
Praying for you all and Sam!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, Yvonne! I'm so sorry about Sam! That's terrible! Does he seem to be in pain??
ReplyDeleteEye injuries absolutely slay me. You poor thing! Between the kids and my animals, I've dealt with terrible down-to-the-bone wounds, bites, fractures, terrible infections, an amputated finger (my own! Successfully reattached, I would add!)....none of those really *bothered* me. I'm a tough cookie with medical things. Never squeamish, really.
But I would pick any of those situations -- even a severed finger (which didn't hurt and didn't seem "real" in the moment) -- over dealing with eye injuries/problems!
I absolutely lose it with eye issues! My Chihuahua ended up with a case of ocular protrusion -- where the eye pops out of the socket -- I lost it!
I captured a sweet little feral cat who appeared to be missing an eye. We opened his lids and found a piece was definitely still in there. It had literally rotted away due to infection, poor thing. Lost it! (Sadly, he died before we could have it removed for him, but we were able to medicate him for the infection and pain. Such a sweetie.)
I cannot imagine dealing eye problem like that on my child! You poor thing! I'll bet your blood ran cold! I would have been on the floor!
I hope he's not in any discomfort. It certainly looks painful! But I know you mentioned that eye was smaller, so perhaps that even with this issue, it can stay a bit protected by his eyelids?
Whatever the case, I pray he recovers quickly and doesn't have pain. And doesn't have any negative impact on the other eye!
And prayers for his wonderful, brave mom who cares for him! :-)
Best,
Mia C.
I love the video and how Sarah beamed immediately when she heard your voice. Precious. And Selah, when she broke free of holding hands had such an ornery look on her little face, right at the very end.
ReplyDeletePraying for you all and your sweet Sam.
Oh honey, I am praying HARD for Sam!!!! Thank GOD it is not causing him pain but I can understand your fears! I'm so sorry. I wish there was more I could physically do for you and your family. Sending loving hugs to Sam <3
ReplyDeleteAnd sweet Sarah....every time my daughter was ill (like high fever, needed meds kind) she had night terrors. She never remembered them but they were terrifying to us! She'd thrash so hard for a 2/3 yo we couldn't hold onto her and she'd just scream in terror! I hope it's back to sweet dreams for your girl.
Praying always xoxo
Oh my goodness, praying for Sam!
ReplyDeleteI can't even look at that picture of Sams eye! :'( Praying for you all!
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