Tomorrow my little Jaxson is having surgery on his right eye. He does have a lazy eye on that side. They are hoping that they will be able to fix the cross and that he will be able to use his eyes together as everyone else does. When we first starting going to see the Dr. about this a couple months ago she stated that he was going blind in that eye. So there the saga starts. We have been patching that eye for 2 hours a day and he wears glasses to help him to see. They are not like everyone elses. They magnify everything in hopes that if its closer that he will not need to look so hard and he will not cross in as much. Well they were hoping that with patching and glasses that the issue would fix itself. The vision has gotten better but not the crossing.
So tomorrow he goes in for surgery as I stated before. The surgery is about an hour and fifteen minutes. They apparently just move the eye around in the socket. What they do is they loosen one of the muscles and the other they take out part of it and tighten it together. They said that it is easy for kids to bounce back from the surgery and he will only be grumpy for a day or two but his eye will be red for a couple weeks.
I am having anxiety about it today alot. When they called they told me that his surgery was scheduled for 12:00 pm. Then they called back and said that there had been a cancelation in the room and they would be able to move him up to 11:30am. Well that is still a terrible time for a 3 year old. Im hoping that he will sleep in and we will just be able to wake him up right before we have to leave at 9:30 am. They stated that he was not able to eat or drink after 12:00am however he could have water, apple juice, or sprite till 8:00am. At least that is something. The other thing that they asked when they called is how will he do with being taken away from yall for them to prep him. What will happen is that the anesthesiologist will come and he will take him away for the purpose of putting him to sleep. I said well I don't think that that will go over well he is clingy. Not just for him but me either lol. I like to be there for comfort in case. Well they said that they are going to give him something to calm him down called versed. After that goes into affect at that time the anesthesiologist will come and get him and then prep him. He is getting a local anesthesia with intibation for this surgery. I am hoping that all goes well but I am slightly freaking out. Don't think there will be much sleeping going on for me. I know that I should not worry all will be fine. However I worry about my little Jax and us not being able to be there for comfort when he is going to sleep. Hopefully it won't be to bad for him. I am thankful that these people know what they are doing and we are able to go to a children's hospital for this procedure. Hopefully I can get some sleep before tomorrow. Im sure that couple hours will be the longest of my life!
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That is definitely hard for you to have your baby in surgery! I'm sure everything will go great and years from now when his eyes work perfectly,you'll be so glad you went through it all.
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