August 16th, 2007 by admin

            The surgery went well, and I came through the recovery period in a timely matter. All seemed to be going smoothly. The pressure in the eye had stabilized, and I was able to stop using the eye drops. The only problem now was that I was still blind in the lower half of the eye. I settled back into normal life, but continued to believe that God would restore my sight completely; I just did not know when.

            A few months passed, and we were in the early part of 2004. Missy and I had our house for sale and had plans to relocate to help a pastor friend plant a church. One late evening I was reading, and my right eye went completely blind. I was in disbelief and frantic. I jumped up from the chair, called my wife and told her I could no longer see out of my eye. How could I have gone totally blind when everything seemed to be going so well after the surgery? I called the emergency number for my doctor, and it just rang and rang. After no answer from the emergency line, I called a doctor friend from church. He was an optometrist with a local practice and was the doctor I had originally gone to see. I woke him up out of bed and he graciously told me to meet him at his office in 30 minutes. (For those of you in the Tulsa area his name is Dr. Derrick Skaggs and I recommend him highly, and not just because he met me at almost midnight in his office.)