A Hard Road to Recovery

Well, it has almost been a week since Brooklyn's eye surgery. I have to say that it has been a long week because I underestimated how difficult the recovery would be for Brooklyn. Although no one said it would be easy, I just assumed that it would be a simple recovery. Well, mommy was wrong. We met with Dr. Tong on Friday and Brooklyn really had a rough day. We couldn't figure out why Brooklyn was in so much pain until Friday. Dr. Tong did a couple of test and at the end we found out that she has a dry patch across her eye which mimics a scratch on the eyeball. We finally were able to get her pain under control with more pain medicine and more frequently. We are also putting eye ointment and eye drops in every hour. Dr. Tong has been really good and if we have not seen him in the office he has called me at home to check up on Brooklyn. Brooklyn is just ready to get back to normal and to do her normal activities. She is really getting bored at home. I don't blame her because I know how it feels to be stuck at home. We see Dr. Tong on Wednesday so hopefully there is some improvement from Friday.