Eye Surgery...

Today Dylans opthamologist decided to do his eye exam instead of waiting until Wednesday. The doctor said he had been thinking of Dylan all weekend and wanted to do it today rather than waiting. The exam showed Plus Disease and Zone 2, the doctor was going to get a second oppinion tomorrow and possibly do the surgery tomorrow night but then decided that he better have the laser surgery today. So right now as we wait they are putting his vent tube back in, they have to do this for surgery because they will temporarily paralyze him for the procedure. During the procedure they will basically laser off the extra blood vessels and weld the retina where it needs to be. They will do between 500 and 3,000 welds to do this. I believe the Dr. told me there is a 1 and 5 chance of blindeness from this or a 20% chance. Most of the time this does work and babies eyes will be fine. The other times there could be severe eye damage or blindeness. But we know that God is watching and Dylan will be just fine. This unfortunately is another hurdle we are going to get over. Before the eye exam today they decided to up his feedings to 27 cc's every 3 hours. They have stopped his feedings as of 3:00pm today but hopefully by this evening they can take his IV out and resume his feedings. They hope to have him back on CPAP very soon, worse case scenario being not for a couple of days or weeks but hopefully his lungs will be fine and they can take out the vent tube tonight or tomorrow. Brad and I were just down with him before they made us step out, he was responding to our voices and opening his eyes for us. He even cracked a smile or to as my eyes weld up with tears of what he is going thru. We are very optimistic he will be fine and his vision will be okay. He is so strong and the doctors here are even saying that as well. He is truely a miracle and one to hop over these obsticles that get put at him. He is going to have quite the story to tell when he gets older and hopefully he doesn't remember a minute of it, we just want him to remember growing and getting bigger and happy times with his family! Updates to come after surgery~