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<DIV>Well I took Gipp in for his free eye exam this afternoon. The doctor
is just pointing out everything he does see and telling me about it. In
the very center of Gipps cornias he has a very thin area of thickening kind of
like a very mild cornia adema. This causes nothing and is
nothing to be worried about. It just shows up as a faint
little blueish gray haze right in the center of his cornia. The
front of Gipps eyes are fine. When the doctor gets into the lens
Gipps got some very very small little crystaling type cateracts in there the doc
says it causes no problems what so ever. The type of cateract the doct is
talking about is a cateract only by strict definition of the word
they don’t effect vision. there little crystal spicules the doc can see
right through them and Gipp can see right out. There’s no
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<DIV>When the doctor looked into the retina he said that looked
pretty normal in both eyes. Also when doc looked into
his retina he saw a patch that looked like a little scar in
there. The doc said the retinas are in good shape.</DIV>
<DIV>The doctor talked about the growt on his eye and the
potential of maybe removing it. Which wouldn’t be to
difficult the doc typically revome things like that using a little lazer
which he said is nice because the aturnitive is would be
to go under anesthesiacut them out and stitch them together But we would
have to watch because of the tearduct because of where it’s
at. The doc said absolutely Now that’s a concern. The doc said that’s a
little more of a concern for the bottum one then the upper one. The doct
doesn’t get to bent out of shape about that and here’s the reason why. Even if
the tear duct gets damaged a little bit . We say what’s the worse
thing that can happen the worse thing that can happen you end up
getting a little extra teering from the eye. Don’t get me
wrong I of course take every effert to avoid any of
that. But the doc’s point is if our choice is to let the
growth grow and grow or we go in and there’s a little
risk that we might damage the teerdraining duct and we end up with a
little extra teering down the face he rather get the growth out. It’s not the
tear production duct but it’s the teer drainage duct. So
it’s where the tears are produced and leave and exit the eye. So if
that duct gets damaged thin it just means the tears can’t flow down
a normal tube and they can end up drawn out and come down the face. The
bottum line is the doc is not talking or worried about in any way about
damaging the production of tears so this would not effect Gipps
ability to moisten or lubricate his eye. If anything the doc said
you heard of people with dry eye getting plugs put in that’s what
your doing flooding out the dranage ducts so the tears don’t go down they systum
and they stay in the eye longer at the worse case scenarioand there are 2 of
them. Basically there’s openings on the upper eyelid and lower eyelid for tears
to get into the tear draining duct. So you have a growth
right here and another one here so yes there’s no question
there . They are very close to where those openings are. But the docs guess is
if he can get those out in a way that he won’t damage
both of those to make it where there’s no tear dranage at all. If we did
though he would say yeah there’s a small chance we would come out of
this with a little extra teering. Rick and I both told the doc that the growth
is getting bigger. The doctor will get me some information on trying
to zap the growths off. The doc would try to do as much as a discount he can. If
I have the lazer procedurer done on Gipps eye he wouldn’t have to wear
that cone shaped thing over his head and Gipp would be able to work
as usual with no downtime.</DIV>
<DIV>I asked the doctor if he thinks the growths should be removed. The
doc said the biggest issue he said that he thinks that they
aren’t causing any problem right now but the concern is if their growing
they can come to a point where they get to big to do the lazer
treatment.And then it starts to get more compicated. If I’m going to remove
them it’s better to do them while there relatively small. The
says it’s easier and quicker. He said it’s not an emergency he’ll
get me some information on it and I can decide on it. If I have this
done Gipp will be there for a couple of hours it’s not a all day thing. The doc
said the sists are probably little benigned tumor from the oil
glands. </DIV>
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<DIV>The doctor was really friendly and nice and he did explain everything
to me thoroughly. I do want to get these 2 sists removed here in the near
future. Gipp did great this afternoon.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lori and the Gipper</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>