Kerry had an accident while working on the bathroom this weekend. He was using a circular saw and hit a nail. He usually wears safety goggles when cutting but did not have them on this time. A small piece of the nail ended up in his eye.
His vision was blurry but after a while he thought maybe he scratched his cornea. He washed his eye out and continued working on the bathroom for a few more hours with his dad. They headed off to the hardware store for supplies and the sun was unbearable. Kerry’s eyes watered and he could not keep them open. He told his dad to drive and eventually said “take me to the emergency room”
The doctor looked into his eye and said “Well done! what did you do ? ” - The sliver of metal went all the way through his eye and stopped at the back of his eye- 90% through. They had to call in the eye specialist, who decided this would require eye surgery to remove. Kerry could still see out of the bad eye relatively well- a bit blurry but not too bad.
Kerry had to go in for surgery the next day. That night was terrible for him- His eye swelled and burnt when he shut it and the pain medicine made him sleepy so he had trouble falling asleep without being able to shut his eyes not to mention just the pain of having a piece of metal cut through your eye and sit there.
It was a mission getting the triplets packed away in time to get Kerry off to Surgery. Luckily his Dad was nice enough to drive down from Madison to bring him back home afterwards. The surgery is not for the faint of heart. (you may not be interested in this part ) While awake (but numbed up) they stick a long needle into his eye to work the piece out. It makes me queasy thinking about it. It didn’t seem to bother Kerry- he complained more about the discomfort afterwards than the fear of surgery before.
The surgery went well. The next day (today)Â Kerry went back in for post op appt. They took the patch off. He said this was the most difficult part-Â He anticipated his vision would be blurry for a while as it was before the procedure, but now he could not see a thing. They did an eye test and he couldn’t even make out the chart let alone the letters on it. This should get better though it is due to the accident, stitches (yes he has stitches in his eye) and swelling.
He has a lot of medicine, 3 eye drops for pain, infection and something else, an ointment for his stitches and pain pills. He cant drive at all for a few days and cant drive at night until next week. He is supposed to rest and hopefully the swelling will go down .
Only time will tell if his vision will be back to 100% . He has a followup appt next week, but unfortunately the stitches have to stay in for 2-3 weeks. The stitches cause such discomfort and at times pain. He says it’s just like you have a small pebble under your eyelid- every time you blink you notice it and it hurts. If your eyes are closed it causes discomfort and when his eyes are open its difficult because he cant see a thing out of his right eye. He has been using a patch on his eye just to cover up the blur. He has been sleeping a lot. The pills knock him out we hope he gets better soon.
I told him he is more work to take care of then Lilly -Â I have 5 babies to care for now !
I told Kerry he is done with the bathroom. I’m sure some of you saw the post of him falling through the ceiling a few months back. I will need an ambulance standing by if he decides to work on it some more! Luckily he is taking it all well. He said there is always a positive side- he got to watch most of the the Packer game from his room in the ER without babies screaming in the background.
Thanks for your thoughts.
