Praising God!

As you can imagine, we were very anxious with the ultra sound today. I had to lay Grant with his back on my chest and hold him still. Poor baby cried and cried. The ultra sound didn't hurt, he just didn't like it one bit. It seemed to take forever for the doctor to tell us anything. He kept printing and printing. We were waiting and waiting. I just kept thinking, "Great. Not only does my baby have cataracts, but the doctor obviously sees something else." I'm a glass half empty kind of person, can you tell? Well, he finally sat us up and told us there was nothing besides the cataracts for us to be concerned about. We were overwhelmed with RELIEF and PRAISE! I think he saw how happy we were with this news, and he reminded us that we had a long road ahead. He talked about the drops that we will be putting in his eyes for the next several months every two hours, and how much work this was going to be on us. I couldn't help but think, "Come on now. He's got to be kidding. There is nothing that I wouldn't GLADLY do to help my baby see!!!!!!!!!!" It irritated me that he was talking about the work we would have to do. All I can think about is my baby and what he is going through.

We then talked to our doctor's office, and his first surgery on his right eye will be next Wednesday morning. We have to be there at 5:45 AM. Hopefully our doctor can get the OR the following Wednesday for his left eye. (I don't know if I mentioned this before, but they won't do both eyes the same day for fear if something were to happen they wouldn't want him to lose the ability to see in both eyes. But don't worry. We must have complete faith that nothing will happen!) A week after that his eyes will be examined for glasses (when I learn how they figure out a prescription for a newborn, I will let you know), and a week after that he will see through his glasses for the first time. We are looking so forward to that day! What a glorious day it will be! In the Bible, Jesus healed the blind man with mud. In the coming weeks (and years) JESUS will heal our son through a physician and glasses!