Goopy Eye

Many of you may have noticed that Camden's right eye has been really goopy since birth. He was born with a blocked tear duct. We were told that he would probably outgrow it by age one. That never happened. We were told when he turned one that he would be old enough to see an opthamologist and we could discuss our choices. This past Friday Camden and I got to see his eye doctor. They looked him over and went over our choices. Basically we were told that they could do a thorough eye exam and make sure his eye was healthy, send us home and hope it would clear up in a month. Our second choice was to get his eye probed. They basically take a probe looking thing with a camera attached to the end of it and go through his tear duct and clear it out. Because he was under 25 pounds, they wouldn't need to do it in the hospital or put him under anesthesia. The only down side to this was that it might not work the first time causing them to have to do it again two weeks later. If the procedure didn't work after two times then we would have to have tubes put in his tear duct. The doctor said that he didn't feel that we needed to get probed unless the goop really bothered Camden, Steven or myself. I told them that it really bothered us. I think in the last year I have wiped Camden's eye more times than I have ever wiped his nose. We are ready to be done with that. We were already in the office so we opted to get Camden probed. They took him back to a room (I was told to wait in the waiting room) and they bundled Camden up so he couldn't move. They held his head and went in with the probe. I waited around two minutes. It was really fast and they told me it hurt about as bad as an immunization shot. I talked to the doctor afterward and he told me it went really well. When he went in, he found a big membrane and popped it. He found a few more smaller ones and cleared them out as well. He told me the first one was so big that he didn't think it would have cleared up on it's own. We felt good that we made the right choice to probe him that day. Please pray that Camden's eye would heal so that he would not need another probing in two weeks or tubes in a month.