Post Op Appointment

We went to see Dr. Wilcox today.

They tested her eye and they said her eye sight at this point is phenomenal!! She's seeing 20/25 without her glasses!! They also said it would get better when the swelling from the surgery goes down!

She is a happy camper! Even with only one eye done, she's reporting being able to see so much better!! She was watching TV yesterday with out her glasses and could actually make out faces!

We have to continue the eye drops for another week, then go back for another follow up visit. By that time it will be time to start the drops for the other eye in preparation for the same surgery!

She can hardly wait until it's all over!! August is going to be over before we know it!

One Down, One to Go!

Nana had her cataract surgery on her right eye this morning! Everything went according to plan!! We had to get up at 6am! When I went in to get her, she seemed to have already been awake. She said she hadn't slept all night! She didn't feel anxious at this point but she said the dog kept her up most of the night. Maybe she was more anxious than she thought and the dog sensed it and couldn't settle down. I am so glad she kept her door closed so Lady didn't come bug me!!

Anyway, we got up at 6am, she had to come in all showered, so she showered and we were off. We got there at 6:45am. We checked in and waited for them to call us back. This is where she started getting more visibly anxious. The waiting and prepping is always the worst part!

They finally called her back. I had to wait for them to prep her. I went back after she was all prepped and ready to go. She had a cute cap on her head, oxygen, the dreaded IV (she couldn't wait to show me what they had done to her!) I forgot to take a picture at this point, I'll get one when we go back to do the other eye!

It was finally time to go back! I went back to the waiting room. It wasn't very long before they came back to get me. She was sitting up in a chair. The first thing she said was, "it was as easy as they said it would be!!!!" Yeah!! She was awake the whole time and she said there was no pain!!

She has to wear this eye guard when she is sleeping or napping so prevent her from accidentally rubbing or bumping her eye and knocking the lens out of her eye. There are no stitches to hold it in, so it can be knocked out for up to a week! She'll probably wear it more often with the dog around!

We got our instructions, got her dressed, and we were out the door! We came into the house and she bee-lined it for her room. She barely took the time to slip off her slippers and she was back in her bed all comfy, cozy by 9am!!

We have a follow up visit tomorrow morning and then we do it all again for her left eye in two weeks!!

Sorry for my neglect!

I haven't been very good at keeping the updates very accurate lately, sorry about that!

Nana is actually having a pretty good summer this year! She seems to be doing pretty good for now!

She decided not to spend the entire summer at Dee's like she did last year. But she has gone a couple times for a week or two at a time! That seems to suit her a little better.

She's been attending church a lot more regularly. She even attended our ward summer party and Jon's play at an outdoor theater last week! She still has a hard time getting around, but seems to be making an effort to do so.

Last week we decided to take her to get her eyes checked to see if we could renew her glasses prescription and get her seeing a bit better. The Doc said that renewing her glasses would only improve her eyesight by about 10%. What she really needed was cataract surgery! We talked it over and he called the surgeon and talked it over and we have all decided to go ahead with the surgery!

She saw the surgeon today, we go back to have another test tomorrow. Then her right eye is scheduled for Aug 10th and the left on Aug 24th! He said it is a very fast, very easy surgery and she will be able to see TONS better. She shouldn't need glasses for distance, just to read and see things up close!

She is so excited to be able to see again!

Nana's back at Dee's

Nana decided to pull a fast one on me this weekend. She announced saturday that she was headed to Dee's for the rest of May! Dee finished school and they started making plans!

Last year she went for the whole summer, this year she decided to break it up and go for a few weeks, then come home for a few weeks, then go back again.

She seems to be on an upswing right now, so I hope she does well!

Happy Mother's Day!!

More Awake!

Just a quick note to let you know she is doing better again. I don't know what that was all about, as usual.

She still sleeps a lot, but when she's awake she's much more alert than she was when I wrote last.

She spent Easter weekend with Dee, at her house. All went well, She had a great time, but she's always happy to be back in her bed!!

Doing Not So Good, After All

It's funny how it works, I mention how well she's doing and bamm! She's back to sleeping A LOT!

She's back to sleeping 16 to 20 hours a day, and when she's awake she's very sleepy and she's slurring her words. She's telling us she has been experiencing some lower back pain. She's back on oxygen about half the day. This has been going on for almost two weeks.

I really didn't think too much of it because we all know we've been here before. What made me think I better start saying something is that when her nurse came over yesterday, she started talking funeral arrangements. I had to pull out my stuff and show her what we had and where we were at in that regard.

I don't want to alarm anyone, I just want to do my job to inform you whats going on. This could mean nothing at all, just one of those little pit falls and she'll bounce back like she's been doing. Or maybe the nurse knows something I don't! I'll try to keep you posted.

Feeling Pretty Good

Just an update...

Nana seems to be feeling pretty good these days! Her foot seems to be healing, finally. She is attending her church meetings and getting out on shopping trips here and there throughout the month. She made it out to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, too!

She's enjoying her readers. She has a volunteer from Hospice that comes once a week and reads her RS lessons and conference issues of the Ensign to her. She also has Jon reading the Fablehaven books to her, it's fun to hear them talking and laughing in there.

So far, no more falls!!