Follow up With Dr. Schubert

August 25, 2009

Today we had a follow up with Dr. Schubert, the doctor who assisted Dr. Kane in Emily's last surgery. Her eye pressure wasn't tested with the machine, but he did feel her eyes and he can tell if the pressure is high or not just by how soft or firm her eyes feel. So far so good. The left eye still feels soft which is an indication of lower pressure. There was no sign of infection, which was one of our biggest concerns...infections in the eye are BAD...very bad. Her retina was still attached, I didn't know they were concerned about it not being attached so that was surprising for me to hear, but none the less good news. Her optic nerve looked ok, in comparison to how it looked 5 days ago in surgery I am not sure. Cornea and Lens Implant both looked very good and he was encouraged by how she was walking around and "seeing".

I think all her doctors are very surprised by how much vision she has right now, each doctor says the same thing. "Well she is seeing fairly well there is no doubt about that". Yes right now she is seeing well enough for her to get around and play, but her left eye has now become her better eye and shortly our focus will shift to the right eye in hopes that her vision will improve even more. Our ultimate goal is for her to have good usable vision in both eyes and to maintain low eye pressures.

We discussed options for starting the drops and Diamox again and he agreed that we should resume her medicine schedule as it was going to be about a month until the drainage tube could be opened and allow the valve to start working. I was actually relieved to hear that because although her pressure might be lower right now, it was only temporary. It would start to climb shortly and I wanted to try to get ahead of it with the meds if I could.

I left the office feeling good about how she was doing. There was minimal redness in her eye and no bruising which was nice because last time she had one wicked shiner going on. I would be seeing Dr. Kane the following week so hopefully we would continue to receive good news. Maybe this is the start of our lucky streak! Quick...lets go buy some lottery tickets! Strike while the iron is hot right? ! ? !