Post Surgery Update

These last few days have been quite the emotional roller coaster.  

I think I prefer the unknown a lot better before we met with the doctor 

and knew exactly what was going on.

We experienced quite a miracle!!

Millie's surgery went well.  

Yesterday was a hard day.

Last night was hard too. 

All of this has been hard.

But we're getting through it and that's good right?!

Right when we walked into the recovery room I burst into tears.

It was so hard to see my baby like that and to know what she had to go through.

What's a mom to do?

Relaying the news to my family and Millie waking up at the same time starving!

Today we went to her check up and they took off her eye patch.

I shouted for joy!! 

It was difficult to feed her with that thing on.

It just got in the way...it reminded me of the first few days she was born.

Here is an edited email Cason wrote to our families explaining exactly what happened:

(if you care to read)

We wanted to let you know Millie's surgery was a success!  Yesterday she was diagnosed with a cataract in her right eye which if not removed, would not allow her to see out of that eye.  A cataract is the clouding of the eye's lens.  The lens is what helps our eye focus.  She went into immediate surgery today to have the clouding removed. Once the Dr was in operation, he realized the lens of Millie's eye never developed.  The only remains of a lens was white scar tissue.  In 25 years of performing pediatric surgery, he has only seen a case like Millie's five times.  Once in surgery, there was no "clouding of the eyes lens" because the lens was not there.  He decided he had to clear the scar tissue from the eye and remove the scarred lens completely.  The force it took to remove the scar tissue put a lot of stress and caused her pupil to now be slightly misshapen.  The tissue had to be removed in order for her to see through that eye, the slight misshape to the pupil then was minimal.  The good news is what had to be done was done and it was a success.  The future however is unknown.  The Dr said it is likely that this is not her last surgery.  The fact that she doesn't have a lens in her eye means she will always wear a contact lens and be more suseptive to future complications.  Millie continues to be so sweet through all of this.  The Dr has told us she will not experience much pain in her recovery.

We recognize that the faith, thoughts and prayers of all of you allowed the Dr to perform a successful surgery. 

Thank you for thinking of us, and thank you for your thoughts and prayers. 

We tried and continue to try to email, text and return phone calls...

Even though we weren't able to respond to all, 

just know that they are what keep Cason and me going.

So thank you!!

(Sorry there isn't much explanation of the series of events prior to this surgery.  

That'll have to come another day.)