Lillia's eye drama, chapter 2

This morning Jason, Lillia and I woke up very early and headed to the surgery center for Lillia's eye probe. (I don't know what the real term for this procedure is, but that is what they do.) I was really surprised at how happy she was, considering that she couldn't eat anything, and hadn't eaten anything for eight hours. Normally in the morning, she will scream until she gets a bottle. I know it was because of her blessing that she was given last night. When we got there, they explained everything to us again, and then the nurse took Lillia off to the operating room. It was only about ten minutes later that the nurse came to tell us that they were done and Lillia was starting to wake up. Dr. Fullmer said that every thing went really well and that it was a good thing we did it, because her ducts were really bad, and that we should see a dramatic difference. Lillia was really happy to see us and acted as if nothing had happened. She has been crawling around all day, just as happy as can be. So hopefully this is the end to all of her eye drama, well at least the eye infections. We will still have to keep a close watch on her vision over the next year,(she has inherited the bad Erickson eyes, or is that from the Holbrook side?) but I'm o.k. with that. If it hadn't been for her closed eye ducts, we wouldn't have know about her bad vision, and who knows how long it would have been before we would have found out?! So over all, this has been a good experience. That is until we get the bill!! :)

This was taken this morning while we were waiting for them to take Lillia back into the operating room. As you can see, she was a little confused as to why we were there, and why on earth am I up this stinking early in the morning! They gave her this cute little bunny, and she kept hugging and kissing it. It was really cute. I had to laugh at the nurse who was giving us our discharge information, He said, "you will have to put eye drops in her eyes four times a day for a week. Just pull out her bottom eye lid and put one drop in each eye." He said this so matter of fact, and very calmly. I thought, O.k. this guy either has never had kids, or if he does have kids, he has never had to put anything in their eyes! To put drops in Lillia's eyes it takes both Jason and I to do it. One of us to hold her down and one of us to pry open her eye and quickly put the drop in. It is no easy task. We are just happy to even get the medicine anywhere in her eye, let alone the bottom lid!