Chloe was born with a clogged tear duct and it never opened up like most do. Her eye cried a lot and it was constantly gooey and yucky so the pediatrician, and some family with personal experience in this area, suggested we take her in to get it cleared out. We had it done on December 12. It was a quick day surgery and went well. The doctor found the blockage and cleared it out and inserted a little tube that was supposed to stay for 3 months to help keep the duct open.
Chloe was a trooper and did so good. Poor thing woke up from the anesthesia super mad and it took us a while to get her calmed down, but after that she was pretty much back to normal.
Before the surgery
After the surgery
Sweet Baby
Her little frog she got to pick out
So earlier, I said she was supposed to keep the tube in for three months. Well, one night she got to rubbing her eye and somehow pulled the tube loose. Naturally it was a rainy Saturday night and Clint was at work. Thankfully we were able to get ahold of the doctor and she was nice enough to meet me at her office and remove it for us. So instead of three months Chloe kept the tube in for about 6 weeks. I was disappointed, but the doctor says there is only about a 1-2% chance that we will have to go in and redo the surgery so I am hopeful. So far her eye has been perfect, so we just continue to pray that it stays that way.
It's a little hard to see, but the tube is hanging out of her left eye.
Nothing like being so behind in blogging that whole process is already over before I even get it documented.....
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