Okay so I am going to try and make this blog as coherent as possible while I enjoy the pain pounding on my eye. After all pain is weakness leaving the body right?
The flight into Boston went smoothly and I could not wait to get round two of "Operation Eyeball" on its way. I met up with an old camp sunshine friend Jenn Morrell for a good dinner, great conversation and an amazing place to sleep. On the day of the surgery I tried sleeping in pretty late in order to avoid hunger pains. I had not eaten since 9:00 the previous night and was not allowed to consume anything until after the surgery which in total was about 24 hours. Upon arriving on the 9th floor I was taken back right away and was actually called to the OR an hour early. I met some of the same sweet people that remembered me from last time which made it much more enjoyable. However then drama walks in the door. In comes the doctors Fellow making rounds with a Resident. I have still yet to figure out why these medical professionals inform their students more than the actual patient on details of the surgery but perhaps I will never know. Anyway his Fellow comes over to me, looks at my eye and discusses a plan that I had never heard before with the resident and then walks off to see the next pt. Soooooo come to find out the plans had changed. Originally Dr Fay was going to remove fat from my stomach and place it in the orbit for more structure followed by releasing the upper lid by another 10mm and separating the lower lid from some of the adhesions. Unfortunately, I thought I felt something different this past week, but my eyelid had started to fuse back to the eyeball after the first surgery. So now the new plan was to continue with separating both the upper and lower eyelid as much as possible and doubling up on the artificial amniotic membrane to hopefully prevent further adhesions.
From what I have heard things went well. They stitched the membrane in the top of the eyelid and pulled down the full eyelid in hopes to stretch and form better closure for it. I will let you know how it turns out next wednesday. In the mean time I will just be enjoying time with my aunt in New York and trying to alleviate this pain. My eye feels a lot more painful this time around but maybe thats a good thing. Thank you all for your prayers and kind words. I know HE will continue to work in my life no matter what the outcome is.
