We are back from beach trip#1 (post coming) as of Tuesday night and Anna Gray had her eye surgery yesterday. It was a pretty minor surgery to insert stints into her blocked tear ducts.
Ready to go back...
Before I saw her, the doctor came in to say he had a little trouble. In children with DS, the space between their lower eyelid and nose is shorter than normal. In addition to that, she had some malformation and he couldn't really find the passage way to insert the stints. He had to do quite a bit of digging and create the space, which was pretty traumatic for her little nose. He said they may be a little bleeding and discomfort as a result. As soon as I walked into Recovery, I could hear her SCREAMING. Poor baby was terrified. Blood everywhere, tubes and wires coming from every arm and leg, six people standing over her, blood pressure through the roof.
Eventually, we were able to calm her down and stop the bleeding. She drank enough of a bottle to be discharged (we all knew she would feel better at home). By the time we got to the car, her paid meds had kicked in and she was dead weight! She had quite a bit of bleeding throughout the afternoon. She was just pitiful. We put socks on her hands to keep her from scratching her eyes (thus, pulling out the stints and having to have them replaced).
She was feeling much better this a.m. and had minimal bleeding throughout the night! Now the dried blood looks kind of like the nose hairs of an old man. With the help of Tylenol, she is acting mostly like herself :)
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She is SO adorable!! Glad she's on the mend. Sweet baby.
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