Not much to report at the minute as we are waiting for the appointment at Moorfields on Thursday to find out next steps regarding Aaron's congenital glaucoma treatment.
On the one hand it's hard to wait - we want to know what the future holds for our little man. On the other hand, we are enjoying these few days with Aaron as we're anticipating at the very least he may be kind of uncomfortable in a week from now. We don't know exactly what to expect after Thursday's appointment, only that we've been asked to plan to stay overnight as surgery on Friday is very likely.
We don't know what the surgery would be but from the bit of research I've done it could be a goniotomy or a trabeculectomy. We received a hard copy of Aaron's referral letter from the PRUH to Moorfields and it has his corneal diameters measuring at 11mm (left) and 12mm (right) so based on that alone (and bearing in mind I am not an opthamologist and one week ago had never even heard of congenital glaucoma) it looks probable that it would be a goniotomy.
But who knows! Given the surprise of this diagnosis (as Clark Griswold once said, if I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now) anything goes I suppose. We are going with the flow for now, ignorance is bliss and we'll enjoy our happy holding pattern.
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