Back from the hospital... (don't panic..hehe!)

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:53 am

and my son is recovering from eye surgery to correct strabismus (crossed eyes). It's a family trait. I had it, my mom and aunt had it.

He was a trooper, and very brave..the ..now, he's a bit whiney and in pain, but mostly just zonked out...he's a good kid.

It's kind of amazing. When I had this done, I was in the hospital a week. It *was* 29 years ago. He was in and out in 3 and a half hours.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:56 am

TThhaatt''ss ggrreeaatt nneewwss..

ddjjmm

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:21 am

Ask him how many fingers I'm holding up...

Wish the little guy well!

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:26 am

Glad to hear he did well. I hope he is very happy with the results after his ordeal, and that mom and dad are too!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:26 am

aawww...the cute little dude. He'll be back to crunching numbers in no time!

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:33 am

Awesome Wanderer! I'm glad to hear everything went well...

Nothing worse than the stress of your children having surgery....

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:35 am

Yes! Frightening Stuff! Glad it's over.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:53 pm

Hey, tell him to get well soon and that he should be getting lots of ice cream and presents and stuff!

A-Musing · Post by **A-Musing** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:24 pm

Wanderer...
Fast healing and "new orientation" to the young fella! Great stuff!!!

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:46 pm

I'm really glad to hear that everything went well, and I hope any pain is short-lived.

And kudos to the advance of medical technology.

Caj

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:47 pm

Your child having surgery is as hard on you as it is on them. I'm glad to hear it's all over and done and everyone is fine.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:29 am

I'm glad that the surgery went well. When I was a child in the late 40's, I had a similar problem with my eyes; I began to see two of everything. No one else in my family had this problem. I remember driving in a car a long distance to another state where they were doing an experimental surgical procedure to correct crossed eyes. It was at an osteopathic hospital in Michigan. The procedure didn't involve any cutting of tissue. Instead the doctors removed the eyeball from the socket and with their hands massaged and stretched the muscles that control the positioning of the eye. It sounds like a procedure that would not have been recommended by a M.D., but the good news for me was that the operation was completely successful. After the procedure I never had a problem with cross eyes again.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:33 am

Doug_Tipple wrote:After the procedure I never had a problem with cross eyes again.

Now, exophthalmia, on the other hand ......

djm

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:36 am

Kids are brave. Hospitals and dentists scare the cr*p out of me.

I haven't been to the dentist in 20 years (Yeah yeah, I know, it's because I'm British!

). I am fortunate that my teeth are good, because if I needed a visit to the tooth fairy they'd have to shoot me with one of those rhino tranquilisers first.

First thing I'd say to a dentist? "Not gonna hurt each other, are we?"

By the avatar, you can probably guess that my eyes aren't in such good shape!

Hope your nipper is soon free of discomfort, Wanderer. Glad it went well.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:41 am

Dentists I'm not afraid of (my mother has done all my dental work from the time I was born), but hospitals? Oh, man. They freak me out. It just makes me feel really weird that we take all of our sick people and put them together in one building.