Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Both girls are getting glasses

CC's eyes. Her left eye is not dilated and her right eye is

Kenzie's eyes right after the dilation drops went in

Kenzie's eyes 10 minutes after the dilation drops.

Both CC and Kenzie are getting glasses. CC's are just to protect her eye. Kenzie's are to see better. They really like the new eye doc his name is Dr. Cockings. He made the visit fun but is really smart. He knew more about our eye issues than any eye doc we have seen before and was able to tell me stuff I didn’t know. He is having a sonogram done on CC's eye humm that’s one I have never heard of or had done. CC asked him “so really you are going to put gel in my eye?” I said no no CC nothing like that, thinking it would be from the side or something. lol He said well actually yes. This will be interesting. He had McKenzie check her blood sugar before he dilated her eyes. That impressed me. If her sugar was high and he dilated her eyes, it could have caused a problem. Her sugar was at 70 though so she was good to go and have a snack too. Before we left Kenzie asked the doc if when they have to get another check up in a year could they come back and see him. He said sure if you want to. Awesome experience. Once again we are blessed to be in Lubbock. He knew the girl’s specialist, Dr. Varma, Dr. B and even Dr. Hurst. Other than the girls not caring for their eyes being dilated, they are happy and ready to go pick out glasses.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Christ our Healer

I just finished reading a book that I had looked forward to buying for a few months. It was worth the wait and I will for sure read this one again. The last few days have been difficult. We made a bit of an emergency visit to see my eye doctor yesterday. She is concerned about the pressure in my eyes once again, that explains the pain anyway. The last time the pressure in my eyes was too high I ended up having to have eye surgery and having my eyes bandaged for several weeks. This is scary to say the least. I am not supposed to be on the computer but I do have my eyes closed, that should count for something. I am bored and with nothing to keep myself busy my mind starts to worry about the worst. I had the ebook “Christ our Healer” already on my Kindle so I set my Kindle to read it to me for the second time. I cannot say enough about this book. It has helped me deal with not only the challenges I am facing right now but those that have already been handled and those that are not going anywhere anytime soon. Sickness and religious views together quickly became a subject to avoid with many people I have come across. I actually stopped allowing the two subjects to be discussed together with the exception of a couple of trusted people in my life. I was able to visit with my Rheumatologist this afternoon. He is also pretty concerned about my eyes at this point. The plan at this point is to use the steroid drops that my eye doctor prescribed twice a day for one week. I will give my eyes lots of rest and pray for the Lord to relieve the pressure. I am confident that when I go back in a week everything will be drastically improved or we will form the next stage or the plan. Either way the Lord will provide the healing and use the doctors to fight the disease that has harmed me. I am so thankful for Kevin and our girls for being so sweet and supportive. The really do love and care about me. It is funny at times what they will do to protect me or make me smile. I love the three of you more than you will ever know.