Worry is setting in . . .

Let me give you all the latest update on Olivia's eye surgery. The doctor's had told us that we should see some results within a couple days after the surgery and to give her the eye drops with the antibiotics and steroids for 5 days post surgery. Well, here it is almost a week later and her eyes are still looking pretty bad. They have been looking pretty leaky (what we were trying to fix in the first place) since the surgery, but in the beginning we were thinking that it could just be due to swelling in the tear ducts from the surgery and we wanted to give it some time to let the swelling go down before we started worrying.

Well, after it had been over 4 days we decided to call the doctor (on Tuesday - her eyes looked worse that day than any other day since the surgery!) just to check on what she thought. I had left a message on the nurse line and a little while later the doctor actually called me back herself! She told me that she wasn't at all surprised to get that phone call from me - that Olivia's eyes were the worst case she has seen in years!!! She did say that she did get the ducts opened up during the surgery so she knows that they were open, but even with the probe in the duct - it was a tight fit - so the ducts sound like they may be more narrow than normal (which worries me). She said that she didn't want to give up hope that the surgery was successful at this point, although there is a possibility that they can re-obstruct. So at this point we were told to continue her eye drops for 2 weeks (instead of the 5 days) and if they still look bad (which they do as of today - at almost 1 week) then we would need to bring her back in (instead of waiting until week 3 for her normal post-op check-up).

So, needless to say, we are all pretty worried about her. The doctor said that there are some other surgical options we could look into if this didn't work, but it was too early to discuss those at this point. So let's all keep our fingers crossed that we won't ever have to discuss them.

Just wanted to give you all an update on what has been going on with her eyes thus far. I'll let you know if anything changes, but at this point the left one looks pretty bad and the right one, though better, is still a bit leaky, as well.