With Much Appreciation

Sorry I haven't posted for a couple of days, but I have been very busy helping Gary with his eye surgery on Monday, and attending doctors appointments with him yesterday.

As some of you know, Gary has been pretty much totally blind for almost a year, and very poor sighted for many years before this.  He has had poor vision all his life and a couple of years ago was diagnosed with Macular Degeneration and given a very poor prognosis. 

He sought a second opinion and saw a different eye specialist and things started happening... The process has been painfully slow, referrals, and decisions, which the first was to remove the massive cataracts he has on both eyes, with great risk of furthering the degeneration.  There are few surgeons here who were willing to perform this surgery on someone with eyes such as his, but we did find one, and he had the first eye done on Monday  - and it was 150% successful.

For the first time in many many years, Gary can see detail.  His excitement yesterday when they removed his bandages had me bawling my face off!!  He can see better than he's ever seen, already... and hopefully the second eye will make it better yet. 

I watched him sit at the organ last evening and play for twenty minutes with the brightest happiest smile I have seen on his face ever - and again, I was moved to tears.

The little things we take for granted and this big things we don't have been returned to him.  He will once again be able to drive a car, and he will be able to return to work in another month or so. 

My thanks to the staff of the Misericordia Health Center, Eye Center, for their excellent care, to the surgeon, and nurses who took such great care of him, and me.  In the normal course of their day, they have made a dramatic change in one patent's life - and we are grateful.

Tomorrow I will tell you about my journey to my past, as I walked the halls of my Alma Mater - The Misericordia Hospital.