Trip and Tear Ducts

It's been an eventful few days in our little world.

First, we decided to go to Augusta for one more visit before school starts up. We left on Friday and came back yesterday (Sunday), so it was a quick visit, but we enjoyed the time we got to spend with them.

Here's Clara with her Aunt Sarah (who, as of today, is in her sophomore year of high school):




Hanging out with her Nana, and waving to all her adoring fans (no, she doesn't actually wave yet):


Kisses from Papa:


And petting Izzie...Clara giggled so much at the dog!



We got back home last night with a tired girl and pretty much put her straight to bed. Then we woke her up at 5:40 this morning to head to the hospital. She has had blocked tear ducts since she was born. She's had cellulitis around her right eye twice (treated with antibiotics), so her pediatrician referred us to a pediatric ophthalmologist, who recommended that we go ahead and do surgery to fix her tear ducts. Thankfully, we were able to schedule the surgery for today, a full week before I go back to work and Clara starts daycare.

Here she is before the surgery in her little hospital gown. This would be before she got too terribly annoyed about not having anything to eat this morning.


The procedure was short - we were only away from her for about 15-20 minutes. The doctor said everything went well. She was VERY upset at the lack of bottle by the time she woke up, and she gulped down the one we offered her...and then proceeded to vomit all over Mommy. She seemed to feel better after doing so, though I don't know whether that's because her tummy was relieved or because she felt like she had gotten me back for putting her through the ordeal. Either way, though she's been sleepier all day than usual, she seems pretty much back to her normal self, as you can see in the picture below.


The doctor said that, by law, he is required to mark which eye he's going to operate on, even though there are only two eyes and he was doing both of them. That's why she has dots on her forehead in that picture. :)

So those are the latest adventures for us. Hopefully the surgery will be effective - it is in over 90% of cases. We have a follow-up appointment in a couple of weeks.