Monday Dr's visit.....

We just got back from the retina specialist.... Here is the latest.....
1. There are bone fragments inside of his eye from when the nail went through his skull.
2. He will need surgery real soon because the scar tissue is already forming.
3. He was put on another weeks worth of steroids.
4. His vision went from 20/400 Thursday to 20/40 Today....which is encouraging. (his eyes are normaly 20/15 and 20/13)
5. He cannot see much of anything up close.
6. He has a pretty good blindspot.
7. He is in considerable pain.
8. They are keeping his eye dialated because the opening and closing of the iris will cause inflamation.
9. The debris is settling out in the bottom part of the eyeball.

The long and short of it is.......either he will have close to normal vision.......or his eyesight will fail.
It does not look like there is much of an in-between. Chances are better for the normal vision than for eye failure .
We go back to both Dr's on Friday.

To correct the first post........He had 7 stitches.......5 on the globe itself and 2 on the membrane.
He is not allowed to lift over 5 lbs. Needless to say he is getting quite restless and bored.
Telling him his school books weigh less than 5 lbs did not seem to encourage him too much.
He has tons of pictures (other than eye stuff) to post on the blog....maybe I will let him do that.

Thanks again for all of your prayers and notes!

Jim