Sherri, any updates?

Hello, just thinking about you and your husband. I haven't seen you post much lately, so I figured things must still be hectic. Any udates you can share? Tania

Tania, Bill's surgery is tomorrow. We don't know what time yet. They are kinda different in that they will tell you the day a week in advance but you won't know the time until the day before . I'll post tomorrow and/or Friday and give you all an update. As to his disposition...it wasn't too good until Monday night. Our 6 yr old grandson had to go to the ER for severe dehyration due to a stomach virus. He was released after they got a bag of IV fluids in him but with his tiny arm, that took about 10 hours. To see that little guy in the hospital bed with an IV was enough to snap Bill out of his...um...'self-awareness'. He has been back to his normal self since then and even suggested us keeping Chance fo a few days during his spring break next wek. So that part is going better...but...all heck will hit the fan very soon in the West T area. I filed the paperwork in court and a certain someone should be having a sherrif knock on her door any day now. I really tried for it not to come to this point but sometimes, it's is out of your control. Sherri

Sherri-You and Bill will be in my thoughts and prayers tomorrow. You hang in there and be strong. I just told Duane about the surgery and he will be pulling for you too! Gail Edwards

Thank you Gail. I don't know if you read some of the older posts or not... Bill (my hubby) was born with anaritia...which is no iris in either eye. Since the iris wasn't there to filter out the light (no iris, no eye dilation), his body made catarats to do it. They finally got so bad by the time Bill was in his earlt 20's that they had to be removed. Every since then, his body has tried to combat the light by increasing the pressure in his eyes. Glaucoma symptoms but not for the same reasons as one would have glaucoma. The high pressure ruins your cornea...so Bill has had several cornea transplants in both eyes. If the pressure can't be controled with meds & drops, then they put tiny drainage tubes in (shunts). If a drainage tube gets blocked by scar tissue or in any other way and doesn't function properly, they can put in more than one. For his right eye, it was the 3rd tube that gave problems. It caused him to lose all pressure in his eye. No pressure, no vision. It also tore up his retina and caused it to become detached....which, definately never no future vision in that eye. Bill was/is the 'blind in one eye and can't see in the other' person. After having 3 failed cornea's in his left eye in the past few years, he got an artificial one in December. At a regular check-up on that cornea last week, his pressure had shot up through the roof. He needs another tube put in that eye. Because of what happened to the right eye, Bill is very...anxious...about it. There is a difference in that Dr. Price uses tubes that has a valve at the end of it that isn't suppose to allow the pressure get below 8. For the first ~3 days however, there is some leakage around where it is inserted until it heals up around it so the first 3 days will be the most crucial for Bill. Best case scenerio is that it will reduce his pressure in a controlled way. Worse case, he'll go totally blind. At 53, he isn't ready for that. Shoot, I don't think I'm ready for that. We'll deal with whatever comes our way but would just appreciate all the prayers for a positive outcome. Sherri

Good luck today Sherri. I'll be keeping you and Bill in my thoughts. Cindy

Hi Gail, I haven't seen you in quite awhile. I've switched my follow-up care to Clarion Bariatrics, so I don't go the the support groups at Community anymore. I hope you are doing well. If you see Linda (Laura? I don't know why I can't remember her name! The pretty blond lady who always brings her mother.) tell her I said hi. I hope I get to see either or both of you at one of the functions we have for the people on this board (maybe the clothing exchange coming up next month?). Nicing seeing you again. Cindy