Before you become
too alarmed, I'll fill you in. 3 weeks ago (just to show you how slack I've been in updating the site)
Gracie had her
corneal graft done. She's had bad eyesight all her life and she had finally reached the stage where surgery was the only solution. But this isn't your average namby pamby poofter laser eye surgery. The procedure involves taking a little cookie-cutter/apple-corer type tool and
removing the front part of the eye, then they do the same thing with
A DEAD PERSON'S EYE (all together now,
"AARRGGHHEEUUUGHH!"). They then get the donor cornea and
SEW it on to the eye. When we went back to the surgeon for a check-up, the doc said that everything is going
really well and although she's experiencing a bit of discomfort at the moment, she should be able to see
much better in a couple of weeks. He also took a photo of the eye with his magic eye-photo-thing machine as you can see
above (Click it for an enlargement). Yes those are the
stitches you can see there, with the knot tied near the top there.
Gross.
