Thank you to the Children's Eye Foundation!

We are so grateful to the Children's Eye Foundation for being there when we were searching and searching for information related to what we were going through.  We were so excited  to learn that Jack had been selected to be one of their "Little Ambassadors" and we were even more excited when they asked us to do a video for them.  They did a great job editing it and we hope that Jack's story will help others going through the same thing, or educate people about the importance of children's eye health. 

Now, for Jack's onscreen debut!

6 months later...

It's hard to believe that it has been 6 months since we found out about Jack's cataracts.  It feels like it has been 6 years!  Every night when I'm in bed, I think about those few weeks...how we wondered if we would have the strength to make it through everything.  If you had told me then that in 6 months, we'd be living a fairly normal life and sharing our story with others, I wouldn't have believed you.  The week between finding out and Jack's first surgery were filled with such sadness, desparation, confusion and anger.  6 months later, we feel none of that.  I am so proud of our family, and especially Jack, for making it through such a scary time.  Now, we deal with what most parents of 9 month olds are dealing with - finger foods, crawling, separation anxiety.  Of course, we have an added challenge - right now, we are in a pickle with his contact lenses.  He had a reaction to his last pair, so we're waiting for a new type to come in.  There will be extra doctor visits, and panic phone calls to the pediatric opthamologist, broken glasses, lost contacts.  But they've become part of our daily life and we wouldn't change it.

Thank you to all of those who have prayed for us, asked about us, or even just read this blog.  It has helped us heal to be able to share our story.