aaron's "progress"

This is what we are still dealing with. I am still angry.... The surgery was a success in releasing the trapped muscle and placing an implant in his orbit to prevent intrapment again, but he is still having trouble looking up, and is still seeing double. We are possibly looking at muscle surgery in another 5 to 6 weeks.

Why am I angry? Well, originally when this happened, his vision was double and his eye was all wonky. They did a CT scan, and told us he fractured it and the muscle was trapped. Sent us to an MD eye doctor. He then transferred us to the ear, nose and throat doctor....not quite sure about that one, but whatever. He kept seeing "improvements" in Aaron's eye movements, so we kept being told to wait. The kicker was the Thursday of last week. He was about to discharge us and call it a day, saying he had much improvement and all looked great. I looked at him incredulous, and said, "are you seeing what I am seeing??" I had Aaron look straight at me, and told him to lift his eyes. This is what we saw. It was crazy, but I think because the doc was having him lift his head, it looked like improvement, but when his head was straight, it was so obvious. He immediately was on the phone with the plastic surgeon.






This is now, 3 days after surgery. Not a whole boatload of difference, huh?

Did we waste precious time waiting around for this doctor? Did the time cause his problem to be worse, or was it there from the get go? There was no scar tissue according to the surgeon, so his take is that the muscle was damaged, thus the surgery in the future. Is it really appropriate to wait that long for that proceedure? Is my son going to see double vision for the rest of his life due to some doctors error?

Aaron surgery photos

This is where they marked which eye to operate on, so they dont go fiddling with the wrong one.

This is me, in my surgical mommy garb...I got to go back with him, and watch him start to seize from the anesthesia...that was weird!! they said it was normal, but I didn't like it ONE bit.

Right after surgery, still zonked out.

Fully awake and ready to go home, complete with the hospital puppy.....

Aaron update

surgery scheduled for first thing monday morning...more about that later, when I am not angry. Maybe i will still be angry then, too, but more later anyway...

Aaron's eye....

This is now....`

This is about 2 days in...

Mother N

N is for Now What?!!?

Aaron fell yesterday and broke bones around his eye socket and nose. He planted his face smack dab in the end of a scooter handle. He cannot move his eye up and down, and they are talking surgery.

Ashley is going for an echocardiogram today due to heart pain and palpitations. Her biological father died in his 30's due to a heart attack.

We got back from Amarillo Sunday night after hanging out all day long in our hometown waiting for day to pass so we can go to a really cool light display and double decker bus ride/train rides, only to find out they only do it on friday and saturday nights....it was sunday. Only the sign said all activities open all weekend. I guess sunday isn't a weekend?? So we wasted money, gas and all day for nothing.

My husband is seriously backlogged at work and it just got worse with the hospital visit yesterday and then he had to take Ashley today because I have to take Aaron to the eye surgeon.

Oh, but my son's team won the lego robotics tournament. Their team won out of 41 teams. We get to go to Ohio in 5 months now to the u.s. open tournament. It is in Dayton. I have never been to Ohio. Between this little jaunt, and the micro conference in July, we are gonna be broke.

Letter M

My my my, I am busy!!! We are currently packing to go to Amarillo for the lego tournament. I don't know what compelled us ALL to go, but the kids see any opportunity to go anywhere as the funnest thing ever. So, we booked 2 double king rooms for 2 days and we shall see how fun it really is.

Mommyhood should be this letter. It can be the busiest profession out there. Seriously! Between having to shuttle the 17 year old to out of town basketball games, running the concession stand for the in town games, taking the baby to therapies and appointments, going out of state for one child, taking another to a doctor about her heart, AGAIN!, and then 4-H christmas parties, this mom is pooped! And we aren't even as involved in extra curricular stuff as others I know.

Last night, I had to force myself to wash a load of laundry and do the dishes. The kids did the dishes last time, so I thought I would give them a break. However, I am so pooped that when it was time for bed, I was out like a light, until this morning. Earplugs are the BOMB!! If you have any trouble sleeping AT ALL, you need them. My husband has been SO GOOD at getting up with Rachel, so if you have a supportive husband, go for it. Of course, if he wasn't on board, I could always have just had a baby monitor next to me, and woken up to that. They don't cancel all sounds completely, and I would have heard crying on a monitor. In any event, I should feel rested after last night, but I really am not.

This mothering gig is hard some days. I feel like I don't know what I am doing, and I fumble along. I hate cooking, and cleaning, but I love hanging out with them. So, at least I have half right, huh?

Oh, and we checked out the local YMCA yesterday....we may be getting a family membership there. Maybe that would motivate me to get off my big ole butt and do some exercise . I am such a frugal cheapo that if I spend any money, it better not be wasted or else!! LOL!