Forgive me for the delay in posting. We've done lots of praying and debating over the last 24 hours. After our visit with Dr. Holz yesterday, we had to make a decision about our next step. Dr. O'Malley told Dr. Holz what he thought about the retina not being completely detached and he thought we should move forward with the surgery to repair the small tear. That also means a corneal transplant. We had decided already not to do the transplant because of the 95% rejection rate in children. But when we got the second opinion from Dr. O'Malley, that threw a kink in our decision. One doctor thinks the retina is irrepairable, the other thinks it isn't that bad. One of them is right, and one of them is wrong. The only way to find out is to go in and do the surgery. That means they remove his cornea, remove the cataract that has developed, and dive into the retina and see what it looks like. Once that is done we have to go through with the corneal transplant. Landon's cornea is too bad to put back into his eye and a clear donor one has to be used. I asked what if he rejects the cornea as children tend to do... then we do another transplant, and another, and another IF his retina can be reattached! If not, then we just do the one transplant, pray that it holds and if it doesn't we just leave it and the eye will go cloudy. Then we will talk about cosmetics later down the road.
My initial response was an immediate NO. But as my very dear friend Michelle brought up, if we choose not to do it, when Landon comes to us in 20 years and asks if we did all we could to save his vision, will we be able to tell him yes? And if we don't do this surgery I don't think we could be honest with him. 5% is a very weak percentage. And everything continues to hang on the possible repair of the retina. So we've informed Dr. Holz that we are moving forward and we'll wait and see. I'm going to take a leave of absence from work so that I can be there for everything; office visits, pre-op, post-op.
Please continue to pray for us. This is really scary for us and I don't want to be putting Landon through this for nothing.
2 comments:
You are being lifted up by so many. Landon will be just great--regardless of the outcome of surgery or if he rejects the transplant.
I promise you--hold tight to your faith--and you will see clearly the blessings that God has in store for all of you.
Hi Jennifer,
I've been praying for ya'll and the only thing I keep getting is that scripture I posted the last time Proverbs 3:5&6 Go with the doctor you feel most peace about and remember we are all still praying for you, Jeremy and Landon.
Keep your eyes upon the Lord as best as you can, He will guide you with peace.
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