Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Officially Blind

Late last week, we had a follow up appointment for Henry at his eye specialist. This is where she confirmed what we pretty much already knew. Henry's sight in his remaining eye is officially gone. The cataract that he has is "complete" and now covers his retina. While we have known that he can no longer see, it still kind of stung to hear it out loud. But it gave us a good chance to have our questions answered and clarify how we should move forward.

Henry will stay on his eye meds (Tachrilimus and Flurburprophen---don't quote me on the spellings of these). And he will actually have them 2x a day now instead of just once. The eye vet explained that he is in his most critical time right now for inflammation to occur and that we have to be diligent with his drops. If we are not, the inflammation could cause his eye to become unhealthy like the left one that had to be removed. So, of course we are like clockwork on this.

While Henry had struggled early on in his initial days/weeks of being blind, he is making pretty good progress. It is still completely heartbreaking when he bumps into walls or furniture, he is being better about taking it in stride, and thus, so are we. But geez, when he nails into a wall and you hear that thud, ugh, the stomach just curdles. It's not so bad if he bumps into a soft furniture item but a wall is just so much harder and jarring. Oy. Nonetheless, he is being a little trooper. And his anxiety seems to also somewhat improving. (He's still not Xanax free but we are working on getting him there.)

We told the eye vet that the day that Henry was going to have his cataract surgery that he actually had his seizure that day. She agreed that it was the right thing to have cancelled that and that we likely dodged the most serious bullet of all. That Henry likely would not have made it through surgery had he had cataract surgery and then seized. And even if he did make it that the longer effects would have been much more serious. So, we are thankful to just have Henry here with us. Alive and as well as he can be. Albeit blind, but otherwise perfect.

As always, #HenryStrong #HenrySmart #TeamHenry