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Tomorrow is the big day when my little man will have his surgery. I am so nervous it isn’t even funny. We told him that we were going to the doctor and that they were going to fix his eye. We didn’t want to scare him or anything but at the same time we didn’t want him to freak out when we got there.
Argh! I hope we are doing the right thing. I hope everything goes ok.
So, since I haven’t posted in a while I figured that I would give an update on how things have been going around our house lately. I can’t remember if I have posted about this since it has all happened or not so if I have just skim on down until you find something you haven’t read about.
Back in September of last year, Z was diagnosed with a superior oblique palsy of the right eye which is a type of strabismus. For those of you that don’t know what that means, it is typically referred to as “lazy eye” and it is where his right eye goes inward and upward. He has a fairly severe intermittent deviation which means that it doesn’t happen all of the time but when it does it is bad. The majority of his iris and all of his pupil go inside of the lid.
Since then, we have been patching almost every day. We were supposed to patch for 2 hours everyday but that hasn’t always happened. Well, his check-up with the doctor was on May 19th at Texas Children’s and his eye has gotten worse. He is now completely favoring his good eye. Tilting his head and closing his bad eye when he has to see something at a distance. The doctor was not pleased with this at all so she said it was time to do surgery to correct it.Surgery is scheduled for June 1st and I am excited and nervous about it. Its scary thinking about my little one being cut open.
I just hope that it is successful and that his eyes will work together and that we won’t have to do another surgery.
I know I haven’t posted in the last couple of weeks. I have been super busy enduring a crochet marathon and writing my first pattern. Z had a birthday party the past two weekends and crazy me thought it would be great to make the gifts for both of them. So I did. A little cotton cap-sleeved cardigan of which I have zero pictures of since I finished it up while I was in the hospital and didn’t think to bring the camera with me and an Olivia the Pig which I have tons of pictures of but I am holding out until the pattern is finished. Yes, the pattern I am making is for a crochet version of Olivia the Pig. Haven’t decided yet whether she will be free or whether she will hyave to be purchased. I am still trying to type up all of my chicken scratch and make it into something that is clear and concise. I have had my fill already of patterns that frustrate the hell out of me. The typical pattern starts out great but around the halfway mark starts to go south. I know that is how mine is right now and so I am trying to improve upon it and make the first release good so that I hopefully won’t have to go back and edit it again. I know why it happens too. You start out with good intentions, writing down every step with all of the little details and then the further along you get, the more “in the zone” you get and it is hard to stop and write it down. At some point, you might even get to the point where you just want to be done already. That was how Olivia was for me.
What was it like writing your first pattern? Did any of this happen to you? I want some feed back and also somebody that might be willing to test out this pattern.