August 27th, 2007 by admin

           I really wish at this point I could stop this story and write that we went home and all was well.  However, the doctor noticed that my iris was discolored. Well the iris had been discolored since the very beginning, way back when I first noticed the partial blindness.  This was dismissed as a loss of pigmentation due to trauma from the car accident. It had never been an issue over the years and none of the previous doctors were ever concerned with it. Nonetheless, this last doctor who had done the valve surgery was concerned about this discoloration and wanted to have a cornea specialist come up and take a look. We were not ready for anymore bad news, after all the eye pressure was finally stabilized, and we wanted to move on with life and continue to believe God for the healing of the blindness that was still in the lower part of the eye.

            The cornea specialist expressed concern and, subsequently, wanted to run some tests including a biopsy on the iris, which required another surgery. Having already had 3 surgeries and a needling procedure, I just was exasperated to think of another surgery. I sought wisdom and counsel from friends and family � all deemed unanimously in favor of the biopsy with the reasoning that it is better to know anything else about my eye as opposed to guessing what else might be wrong. As with all surgeries, the risk of the biopsy meant that if the problem really was what my doctors thought it might be, then the surgery could cause the spread.