Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Broken Stitches

1 week after having the Left cornea transplant, we had unplanned visit to the hospital operating room. I brought Emily to her doctor for her usual check up on her eyes. When the doctor looked at her left eye, he thought he saw a scratch on her cornea or possibly a broken stitch. He couldn't be 100% sure what it was or if there was any damage unless he put her under anesthesia to find out. So, what was supposed to be a quick appointment ended up being an all day event at the hospital. Back into the OR...

There were four broken stitches....not one, but four. The doctor doesn't know how or why they broke, but it had to have happened between Monday and Friday of that week because when she was checked on Monday it was fine. He replaced the stitches and she is doing well. We will have to go back the next day to his office so he can look at it again. He said that the bottom part of the cornea is healing nicely and hopefully with new stitches the top part will too. Thankfully it was something that was able to be fixed and not something wrong with her eye or with the new cornea, but it was pretty scary for us.

Please God, no more surprises...

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