October

Where to begin...I am so bad at keeping up with my blogs. I used to be able to blog much more often when I was using XANGA but then again, I wasn't working when I blogged then. I hope I can keep up with this more often. I've thought to switch back to xanga, but it's not as easy to navigate and work as blog spot.

So to start off, Lilly turned 7 this past Sunday on October the 9th. I can't believe it's been 7 years since we gave birth to our little girl. Now that she is 7, we can't even call her our baby girl anymore without her correcting us and telling us that she is not a 'baby' but a 'lady' now...my goodness...such sass...We celebrated with a little party for her at Azalea Park up the street from our house. It was nice and she enjoyed playing with her cousins and friends.

Yesterday, I went to get my eyes checked at UCSD's Shiley Eye Center to get a new prescription for contacts.

Well, instead of just getting a new prescription I was given this diagnosis, an unexpected one: SUPERIOR HOLE OD WITH CUFF OF EDEMA, POSSIBLE SHALLOW DETACHMENT ...in english please?

I guess the best way to put it was there was a tear in the retina and it was collecting fluid underneath and it could possibly cause my retina to detach from my eye.

At first I didn't understand what the big deal was all about until she explained to me that if the retina was to detach completely I would go blind in my right eye. Now who wants that? 

Dr. Ho told me I needed to see a Retina Specialist right away and she told me there was one at Shiley I could see right away, but because I have Scripps Health I had to take my referral to them, but she told me as soon as they saw the dx, they would see me right away, WRONG! 

I spent the whole day, took of work unexpectedly only to keep hearing, "The request has been marked URGENT and we will call you as soon as we hear back." I never heard back yesterday.

I was only even more frustrated to find out after I called Scripps today that the auth had been approved for me to go back to UCSD. But what could I do? Just get over it and get it taken care of.

So I went in and saw the specialist today at UCSD and they took so many pictures of my right eye that I thought if the detachment doesn't cause me to go blind, all these flashes just might...hehe

I am so impressed at how fast and efficient the opthalmologist and his staff were.

They looked at the pictures then looked at my eye and took me to the "laser" room where they repaired the detachment with a laser in less than 30 minutes. Everything happened so fast I didn't have time to be nervous about the procedure. They numbed my eye in between the treatments and the only thing I didn't like was the pressure from the suppressor they used to keep my eyes opened.

I had the day off today for Lilly's open house so everything worked out...I came home took a nap, woke up like someone had stabbed me in the eye cause the numbing solution wore off. I took some advil and headed off to Lillyanne's open house. I wasn't going to let anything prevent me from seeing my child's progress in 2nd grade. 

I'm so glad I went, Mrs. Kemp told me Lilly is one of her advanced readers, already reading at K level when they are supposed to be at an H. That made me so proud. However, she did state that Lilly gets distracted easily and that does cause her to fall behind when it comes to following simple instructions.

Also I told Mrs. Kemp I was a little concerned that Lilly might have dyslexia because she forms her letters backwards. She reassured me that it is normal but if she still does that at third grade to get her tested. 

I am having Lilly test for GATE, I am excited to see how she does.

I am just so HAPPY that October is here, I was going through some rough patches the past few months but now that the holidays are fast approaching I am just so excited to share these moments with Michael and the kids. Between me working and Michael at school I feel like we haven't been able to spend much time together. I know we live together, how can that be possible? Trust me, it is! But we are making the best of the moments we do have together, like today.