What a wonderful life. We have had a great weekend so far. Friday John and I went down to Salt Lake City for his eye surgery. We had to be there at 2:15pm they got him all ready to go and we had to wait until 4:30 before they finally got him in. It was a 2 hour surgery. They put him to sleep long enough to block or deaden his eye and then woke him back up. He was awake for the entire surgery. They told him he had to stay very still and not move his eye (FOR 2 HOURS). they took out the cornea, lens, and scar tissue and then put in the artificial cornea and a new lens. It was 7pm before we were able to leave the Moran Eye Center to go get medicine, dinner and go to our hotel room. We stayed at a really nice place called Country Inn & Suites by Carlton. This morning we had to go back to the Dr. to have his eye checked. The Dr's surgical assistant took off the bandages and everything looked great. He asked John if he could see anything and he said yes he could see my face. I was sitting across the room in front of him. He asked him to cover his good eye and read the eye chart on the wall. It had one big E on it, he could see it, before he couldn't. He change the chart to the next screen and he could read it also. To make a long story a little shorter, :) he read at 20/30 and with each line he read more tears ran down my face. When Dr. Moshifar came in the assistant told him everything looked good and that John read the chart to 20/30, Dr Moshifar said good, then he hesitated and said what did you say? The assistant said "I swear that is what he read" this conversation repeated its self a couple of times and then Dr. Moshifar turned the chart back on and had John read it again just to make sure. The Dr. told us that they only expected him him to read at 20/200 which is one better than the big "E" They were amazed. They also said his vision would fluctuate for awhile during the healing process.
Anyway John has to be very careful. He can't cough, sneeze or blow his nose. He can,t lean down to pick anything up, he can't lift anything, we cant touch anywhere around his eye or eye lid and he has a metal eye guard that he has to wear all the time for the next week or two. We have to put drops in every 4 hours.
He will be off work for about 3 to 4 months. But it is so well worth it. What a miracle. Please keep him in your prayers because he still has a long way to go.
