“Sight: Yeah It’s Important”
UPDATE: Heather made it out of surgery just fine and the doctor said he was pleased with the results. Thanks for praying for and keeping Heather in your thoughts.
Two years after her first cataract surgery on her left eye, Heather is having surgery tomorrow to remove the other cataract in her right eye. For new followers of this blog, a brief history is in order. Most cataract surgeries are often done on people much older than Heather. However, following a courageous fight with cancer seven years ago involving chemo, radiation and a bone marrow transplant, (in which Heather gave cancer a throw down and walked away delivering an old fashion butt whooping) she had to take large amounts of steroids among tons of other meds. As it often can be with many medications, there are darker sides to them. For steroids, one of the darker elements is the possibility of developing cataracts. So once again, my brave and amazing wife will complete another chapter in this saga that ends with our hopes intact tomorrow at nine in the morning. Cataract surgery is a routine enough surgery, but it’s surgery nonetheless so I remain thankful for all the well wishes you have sent her over the past few weeks. Now before you all yell at me for making my wife point a flashlight into her eyes, let me defend myself and say that it only took 3 frames and 1 outburst from Heather that involved something about wanting to hurt me. By baseball’s standards, I threw 3 strikes and 1 ball to close out the game.
8 comments in “Sight: Yeah It’s Important”
February 18th, 2008 at 18:34
Son! This is AMAZING!! I never noticed until now, but, in the wake of your brilliant lighting made for this photo, my precious has a … a … SEE THROUGH NOSE!!! Wow, that’s just amazing!
February 18th, 2008 at 20:39
Good luck Heather and Andrew. I will send up a prayer for you Heather. Hope all goes well. You have beautiful eyes.
Shame on you Andrew for doing that. Ha, ha. Just kidding, sort of.
February 18th, 2008 at 20:40
Ha ha Bobbie. I will pass on your well wishes to Heather. Yeah I do sort of feel bad about the flashlight thing….well sort of
February 19th, 2008 at 9:16
Yes, it’s been a journey… but we’re all ready to walk the walk, whether we’re all together or alone.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:41
I hope the surgery is going/went well today. I said a prayer for you guys!
February 24th, 2008 at 14:50
Well done, and lovely portrait
March 12th, 2008 at 23:49
An absolutely beautiful portrait! And a beautiful story.
April 30th, 2008 at 14:42
Thank you for posting this photo and information. My 15-year-old great-nephew is getting ready for his bone marrow transplant, and my second cousin has had cataract surgery due to her BMT several years ago. My husband is also a six-year cancer survivor, but luckily it was caught so early that he never required treatments past surgery. Good luck to you and your beautiful wife!
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