Another Eye Surgery

Ben had to get another eye surgery last week. He had surgery on his bad eye when he was 5 because it was turning in, and things were good for 8 years. Now, that his body is changing so much, it started wandering out. Basically, his brain isn't very good at controlling his eyes together.

The doctor wanted to do surgery on both eyes to try to reset the brain to move them at the same time. So, that's what we did.

We headed down to Phoenix last Tuesday at 4:00 in the morning.

 

They wanted to do an IV as it's easier to put him to sleep that way instead of laughing gas. They say he's too big for that method now. But, Ben handled it like a champ.

Funny thing was we saw another doctor there and I realized it was the one who did surgery on Ben's hernia when he was like 3.

The doctor put marks on his forehead to make sure they operate on the correct eye. But, they were doing both, so hard to mess up.

The waiting room is so nice. He gets assigned a number and you can watch and see where he's at. The whole thing was maybe 20 minutes.

Then, we got to see him in recovery.

Poor guy.

 

Luckily, he didn't vomit after like last time. A few days later, his white parts of his eyes were super red. He took 4 days off of school to recover. Luckily, it was on the cusp of a 3 day weekend. He's pretty much all back to normal, but his eyes are still red. We had a follow up appointment yesterday and the doctor was thrilled with how everything looked.