Eye Surgery Day- Finally!

Ethan's surgery to open the partially obstructed tear duct of his left eye was done yesterday morning. We made the appointment 2 1/2 months ago (this practice of pediatric ophthalmologists is so busy that is the earliest they could get us scheduled!) Poor Ethan's left eye has been goopy and the lids irritated since he was just a couple of weeks old. Most mornings he has woken up with his eye sealed shut, and I have had to clean his eye out up to 15 times a day. He gets really upset when you try to wipe the goop out of his lashes (I can't blame him!) The procedure to place a stent in his tear duct was done under general anesthesia at about 9am. Ethan had a rough time with his initial recovery from the anesthesia (he was crying hysterically for about 15 minutes), but he calmed down once we had him dressed and were heading out to the car. He was pretty groggy and cranky until the evening, but overall he was a little trooper! Unfortunately the tears have not begun draining properly yet, and he rubbed his eye vigorously tonight which somewhat dislodged the stent. The stent is a narrow plastic tube, and you can now see it against the white of his eye. The doctor said that it is not unusual for kids to accidentally pull at the stent, but ideally it will be left in for 4 months. It looks to me already as though it would be irritating Ethan's eye, but the Dr. won't remove it unless it is so far dislodged that it is touching the iris of his eye. I'll just have to keep checking it to see if it gets pulled out to that point. Hopefully this procedure will be a success and we won't have to have it repeated! Thanks for your prayers for Ethan's surgery!- It's scary to have him taken away from me and put under anesthesia, but this is the second time that he's been put under, and he has done well both times with no complications.