[blparent] surgury

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I'm very interested in hearing what people have to say about this, since my 
eyes are giving me trouble as well.  Shannon, how did you find someone to do 
your surgery?  I need to start researching, not sure where to begin.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Shannan Zinck" <shannanzinck at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:50 AM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] surgury

> Hey everyone been a long time. This has been a pretty rough year for me.
> Wondering If anyone here has had an eye removed while parenting a 2 year
> old.  I'm supposed to have emergency surgury which could take anywhere 
> from
> 2 weeks to 3 months to happen though the sooner the better. My son
> understands enough to be careful not to touch my face (extremely painful 
> if
> he does) but, he is a toddler and a super active one at that. Also
> wondering what if anything I can to to ease the headaches and nasuea until
> they get around to taking the eye out. Is there a patch that is more
> comfortable or something. I've tried the soft concave ones but, they put
> too much pressure on my eye, the eye itself is so pressured that it sticks
> out past the bone above it. Not pretty for sure. The plastic ones are near
> impossible to get here and sunglasses are too dark for me. Not having much
> luck. I discovered that the drops they put me on for pain raise the
> pressure in my eye so concerned about using them. Also what's the recovery
> like length discomfort and all that. Haven't had surgury in 20 years so a
> lot has changed since then.  I haven't been able to do much with my son 
> for
> the past few months because I'm alway feeling lousey. He's being a great
> sport about all this but, I'd like to find creative ways to spend time 
> with
> him that don't require much physical activety. Sorry I haven't been around
> much just doing the bare min until things calm down. The computer hurts my
> eyes if on too long so don't get to read much anymore. thanks.
>
> -- 
> Shannan Zinck
> Survival is letting GOD take over!!!
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