No Vitrectomy, Cataract

The trip to Michigan went smoothly. Dave and I drove Chloe up on Thursday afternoon and spent the night at the Westin. They gave us a really good hospital rate of $72 so we were pretty happy with that. It was only 15 minutes from the hospital - pretty convenient. We had to be at the hospital at 8am for Chloe's 9:30 EUA (Examination Under Anesthesia). Chloe had the same Anesthesiologist as the first time. I drilled him about the anesthesia for about 15 minutes making sure I knew exactly what he planned to do under every possible circumstance and telling him every scap of information that I thought might be important to him. I was NOT going to have another surprise propofal "incident."** We then met with the surgeon. We've been patching Chloe's eyes to try and avoid lazy eye. He discusses with us the different schools of thought regarding this. Some doctors think there's a problem after 6 weeks of clouded vision and some after 9 weeks of clouded vision. We believe Chloe's had clouded vision for about 5 weeks so that comforted us a bit. He would go in for the examination and then come back to talk to us before beginning any procedure.

He returned with surprising news. After four weeks of retinologist visits and another week waiting for our appointment in Michigan, the blood is gone from Chloe's left eye. She does not need a vitrectomy. What a shock! Surprise! Great! Then he went on to explain that Chloe has a cataract that is clouding her vision. What a shock...surprise...not-so-great. She'll need surgery to correct the cataract but he doesn't do that surgery. We'll need to work with Chloe's opthamologist to get that correct.

So we find ourselves headed back to Dayton much more quickly than expected. I feel pressured to figure this out right away. We cancelled Chloe's Wednesday Synagis appointment because of Friday's anesthesia. It's now scheduled for this coming Monday afternoon. I'm worried, though, that Monday's synagis shot could delay possible cataract surgery by a few weeks I don't want to get the shot and then have them say, "Oh, we wish you'd told us about that shot. We could have gotten Chloe in for surgery tomorrow but now she has to wait two more weeks...". Unfortunately, the opthamologist was out of the office Friday. I spoke to his Technician and she said she'd try to get ahold of him at home but I never heard back. I know that putting off her Synagis shot is bad (this is her RSV preventative) but, if they can get her in for cataract surgery right away, I think I'd rather put off her Synagis another couple days and get the surgery. Of course, I have no idea what kind of timeline they can give me for surgery... I'll be burning up the phone lines right away Monday morning and in suspense until then. Any words of experience or advise would be much appreciated here! How bad is it to put off her shot another few days?

Until then we continue patching Chloe's eye and wait.

**He assured me that he would NOT use propofal for either the examination or the procedure (if they chose to do the vitrectomy) on Chloe and noted that it wouldn't even be a good choice for her case. Why they used it for her second EUA last time, he could not explain to me - I didn't dwell, though.