Focusing His Eyes on the Here and Now

It's beginning to look like this blog has been created solely to share with you the trauma's of the Sall household.
I guess we won't change things up now...

Having some fun at the retinal specialists.

A couple of weeks ago, Kevin, began experiencing tingling in his left elbow and finger tips along with some odd blurry vision in his right eye.  He thought it would subside.
Fast forward a couple of weeks and a few chiropractic visits later to get rid of several knots in his neck and back, and his arm tingling is getting worse and his vision is not improving.
So, the next morning (this past Thursday) he called his primary care doctor, who recommended we immediately make our way downtown to the E.R..

As you can imagine, any kind of numb/tingling of the left arm, causes you to experience a barrage of tests, from EKGs, to CT Scans to contrast images...  After four hours there, they determined that his left arm's tingling is something called epicondilytis...aka...golfer's elbow.  (Kevin thinks this is hilarious because he RARELY gets to golf and would definitely love to do more of it!)  Rest, ice and ibuprofen/aspirin for the inflammation was their prescription for it.
The kicker of it all was that they couldn't figure out why his vision was blurry.  They noted no signs of mini strokes or anything else like that.  So they sent us on to an ophthalmologist that we needed to see first thing the next morning.

Friday morning we were off and visiting Dr. Habekovic on Lake Drive in Grand Rapids.  Unfortunately, he had some not great news for us:  Kevin has a torn retina in his right eye and a pin hole in the retina of his left one.  After this shocking news, they sent us immediately to the retinal surgeons right around the corner: Retina Specialists of Michigan, where Dr. Shevchenko was able to do a laser procedure that day on Kevin's left eye.

Left Eye after Friday's procedure

Because of the long weekend, Kevin will have his second procedure done on Tuesday.  For this one, they will put him under anesthesia to place a scleral buckle on this eye to put some pressure on the eye in the hopes the retina will reattached itself to the eye.

What does this all mean?
No reading, writing, emailing, texting and work for a long while.  That last one is the most difficult pill for Kevin to swallow but he is amazing me like always.  He is taking it in stride and focusing on the here and now rather than dwelling on things he can't do or change, trusting God's plan in all of this.

We covet all your prayers as we head into this week.
Thanks for loving our family!