Lelia,

I just saw this, and wondering how your eye is doing by now? I had 
eye surgery to remove my left eye in 1971. No picnic, either!
So, with all the prayers, including me now, you'll do just 
grgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrate!


LOVE YOU GIRLFRIEND,

Mom Reeva Parry.


Legend has it that on Wednesday 8/15/2007 04:51 PM, Lelia Struve said:

>Hi all, well, all is not going the way I'd like.  The left eye is 
>healing wonderfully, but as the doc told Todd it will take a bit to 
>heal because of all the scar tissue from previous surgeries, and 
>that is definitely the case.  But for the most part its doing great!!!
>
>The right eye however is a different story.
>
>Basically, what the doctors wish is to keep something called a 
>conformer in my right eye in order to keep the socket expanded, when 
>I was in surgery I found out yesterday they tried to put a large 
>conformer in my eye but the eye wasn't having that idea at all, so 
>they put a medium conformer in and only two days after surgery, it 
>kept wanting to come out.  I went yesterday to the doc and they 
>tried to put a small conformer in and it still kept wanting to come 
>out.  So, what they did is put back in the medium conformer and then 
>proceeded to put an extremely long stitch closing the eye and 
>pulling it closed with tape on my forehead.
>
>That's where we stand as of now.  I will say this, it feels very 
>awkward and my eye keeps wanting to open or blink, that hurts.  Todd 
>and I just went to check the mail just a bit ago, and we saw our 
>neighbor, I had my sun glasses on but she still noticed and asked 
>what happened.  We explained.  All I have to say is yay!!! We're 
>having fun now.  Not!!!
>
>
>Lelia