My Pretty Girl

So sorry I have been so late in updating after Karleigh Mei's surgery! We've had a busy weekend. :)

Karleigh Mei woke up Saturday morning, and was back to her normal, happy, chatty, bouncy self! It amazes me how quickly after surgery she bounces back!

It's still hard to tell exactly how her eye will heal up, but we feel that it looks fabulous right now...just 3 days after surgery! It is still pretty tight and swollen. She is such a darling girl and all we can see is the beautiful girl that she IS!

Here are some pictures of her "working the camera". :) Have I mentioned before how much I love this girl?? :)

        

I thought I'd share these pictures of Karleigh Mei, taken almost exactly a year ago! This picture was taken before she had any surgery on her eye. You can see how much of her eyelid was missing and how wonderful her eye looks now!! She still was such a darling, DARLING girl! Oh...my sweet baby girl!

Better Days We Have Had...

Karleigh Mei had her 2nd eyelid surgery this morning. The doctor felt really good about it. It's hard to explain exactly what he did. The 1st surgery he cut and stretched the small part of eyelid that she had (she only had half an upper eyelid). This 2nd surgery he removed some of her upper eyelid (the part that wasn't originally a part of her eyelid) and some of her lower eyelid and attached it to her upper eyelid.

We will go back in a month for another surgery :( to stretch and tighten her upper eyelid so that it will close all the way for her. He had hoped to stretch just the upper eyelid today, but it was just too tight. Confused? That's okay. :)

How did Karleigh Mei do? Well....this girl has a better memory than any elephant I've ever known...and she remembered her last surgery (back in March) and the claim that she would have bubblegum (the bubblegum gas smell) and balloons (what she is suppose to blow when she goes "out")...which she never got. When they took her back to surgery, this time she wasn't happily waving, "Bye Mom!", she was crying, "I want Mama!". Tears for me...

Once the surgery was done and they brought her to us, she was MAD! And she was in pain. :( She ripped her IV out while the nurse was trying to take it out. I was so afraid she was going to rip the patch off of her eye!

We have not seen her eye yet, we take the patch off in the morning. This time they used dissolvable stitches, so she won't have to go back and put under again to take them out. Please continue to pray for quick healing and NO MORE PAIN! She's doing better now and is happy to be home! Big sister Katie comes home for the weekend...so we are all excited about that!

Trying to get her to smile for the camera. Not in the jolliest of moods (do you blame her!?). You can still see the tape around her mouth from the breathing tube. :(

Playing with her super-cool new LeapFrog game!

The Patch Is Off!

We have taken off Karleigh Mei's eye patch!! She wanted to watch us as we pulled it off, so she sat up on our bathroom counter and had a front row seat. :o) We pulled it off and she stared and stared at it. Something I have not mentioned about it, is that her eye has been stitched shut. Our eyelid is the best bandaid for our eye! Imagine that!? :o) The Lord did such a good work when He created us! We will return to the hospital on Thursday the 26th and have the stitches and "buttons" taken out. We told her that when she gets those taken out, she'll have two pretty eyes again! She was confused, but she is trusting us. She is such a dear little girl. Have I mentioned how much I love her!!! :o)

She is doing sooooooo fabulous! She took a good nap yesterday when we got home and woke up in a happy mood. She ALWAYS wakes up in a happy mood! She is so cute when she falls asleep in the car. When she wakes up from her little car cat-naps she always has the sweetest little smile on her sleepy face.

Okay...so here is the picture of our darling Karleigh Mei with the patch off!