Crosby's Eye Surgery

Crosby was born with an eye condition called ptosis, which basically means that his right eyelid was droopy. Our opthamologist checked on him regularly and in late November he noticed that his eyelid was drooping over his pupil. If left untreated, this would have affected the development of his vision so our doctor recommended surgery. Crosby was scheduled to have a procedure called an eye frontalis sling on December 4th. He came down with a bad cough so it was rescheduled to December 18th.

A couple days before surgery...you can see how his right eyelid is droopy.

 Right before going into surgery

  Right after surgery. He was really groggy and then would wake up hysterical. It took a couple of hours for the anesthesia to wear off.

He had to wear an eye patch for 24 hours...

His brothers thought it was great and wanted to join in on the "fun"!  

 A couple of days after surgery...his eye was very swollen. The swelling has gone down some but our surgeon said it might take 3-4 months for all of the swelling to go away.

Sweet guy! In the days/weeks following surgery, he had moments where he was content but it was obvious he was in a bit of pain. He didn't sleep very well for a couple of weeks after surgery. We happened to be on the road for Christmas and TCX so it was a challenging couple of weeks! Thankfully he is feeling better.

 Here he is sleeping in the van a couple weeks after surgery. As you can see, his right eye is still swollen open at times. The stitches above his eyelid are almost all dissolved.

Here is our little man today, three weeks after surgery. He is finally sleeping again at night and doesn't seemed bothered by his eye. Depending on the time of day and amount of light, it is still pretty obvious that his right eye is swollen. It even seems like his left eye has a droopy lid in comparison. The surgeon said it looks good though and is healing well!

It has been a crazy couple of weeks but we are so thankful to the Lord for how Crosby is doing and for how the whole process has stretched us in our faith in Christ.

Thanks for praying with us!