Wagon's Ho!

Here is the picture we promised from Avery's adventure at Primary Children's Hospital.  You may notice an arrow over her left eye...her doctor marked it so he would fix the correct eye!

As for Avery's progress this week:  She is doing great!  We thought for a couple of days that her eye looked like it was filled with yellow Jell-O, but apparently that is normal.  That has now cleared up and her eye is even less red today.  She seems to be using both eyes together and the left one actually does look straighter!  Hurray!

Lazy Eye No More...We Hope!

Friday, June 6th, 2008 Avery Jane went to Primary Children's Hospital to have her lazy eye fixed.  It was an out-patient surgery and we were only there about 4 hours.  The surgery itself took just a little over an hour.  She has a wonderful doctor, Scott A. Larsen.  He is a pediatric ophthalmologist with the Moran Eye Center and Primary Children's Hospital.  He has been great to work with. 

Avery was a trooper.  She was very brave and her usual bubbly self before the surgery.  She chose to have her "air medicine" (anesthesia) smell like cotton candy, and even got the anesthesiologist, Dr. Anderton,  to give her a ride in a wagon and walk/dance like a monkey all the way to the operating room.  After the surgery however, she was not so happy.  The stitches in her eye made her want to rub and scratch at her eye and she got pretty mad when we wouldn't let her.  Tonight she is asleep on the couch and hopefully healing well.  We will keep you posted on her progress.

As soon as I can get the picture off my  phone, I will get it posted too.