Bad News and Good News

If it's not one thing, it's another. And in Treasure's world, it's not the cancer but her eyes that are causing concern. At our last appointment Dr. Earl determined that she has "dry eye" in both eyes, one a little more severe than the other. So we started the eye drops that afternoon. For some reason she was very annoyed by the drops in her left eye and would try to rub them out. Here she is on Wednesday, two days after starting the drops.

Since rubbing her eye didn't remove the annoyance, she proceeded to scratch her eye (see that offending left foot?) and by Friday had developed what looked like a blood blister on her eye. Horrified, I stopped the drops in that eye immediately and waited til Monday to see Dr. Earl. Circumstances prevented an appointment until today - a full week later - so when he walked in the exam room and looked at her eye, he was stunned! His first fear was that she had ruptured her eye. Really BAD news.

After examining it with a fluoroscope (I think that's what the instrument was) he determined that she probably scratched the cornea which then became an ulcer (which we have been through twice before) and thinks it will heal with a round of antibiotic eye drops. Really GOOD news. I left his office with a purse full of drops - some I won't need anymore and two more to add to our arsenal. And the dry eye? He suggested we try Artificial Tears from the drug store!

As I said at the beginning, if it's not one thing, it's another!