Flying Eyes

After Tate had been up to see Kevin and his surgeon and doctor at OHSU he was worn out. His eye was irritating him a lot which caused him to rub it a lot. Once again he woke up and it was turned upside down and looking funky.

Tate's options before we headed off to school were to let me spin it or to take it out and put it back in. He seemed to think that it would hurt to spin, so he wanted to take it out and put it back in. By the way, they draw a small picture on the top of the eye so you know which side is up. I can't tell you what Tate picked, it is a secret, but if you ask him, he just might tell you.

We got the eye out fine and then I had it in (still with the suction thing on it) and Tate went to grab the suction thing to pull it off and there goes Tate's eye flying across the kitchen floor. Wow, never in my wildest dreams would I ever imagine that I would be in that kind of a situation. I stayed calm chasing after a very expensive eye. Tate wasn't very happy with me. We did get in and off to school we went.

The Lab at OHSU & The Pooping Moose

Tate and Logan got a treat from a pooping moose. You can see the moose in the picture below off to the right. It poops out M&Ms. The boys LOVED it!

This is Logan and Tate with the lady that works at the lab. Tate wanted to visit the lab to see where his eye went.

When we first found out about Tate losing his eye, they gave us a book to read to him. After we finished the book, we asked him if we should remove his sick eye. He responded by saying, "if the doctor thinks so." After he had a couple of days to think about it, he would come up with more questions for us. He asked if we got to take his eye home. No, I told him, it goes to the lab where they test it to see what kind of sickness you have. We were lucky enough to go visit the lab.

Prosthetic Eye Making

First Tate had to take out his eye to make a mold out of the eye socket. He is holding his temporary eye. They used a suction thing to pull it out.

Kevin, our ocularist, first made molds out of the inside of our hands. Then he made one out of Tate's eye socket. This felt weird and Tate wasn't too happy about it but it was better than putting him to sleep to have it done. It is like getting a mold made of your teeth.
Once the mold was made, we came back that afternoon to have Kevin match the eye color. We then came back the next day to pick up his new eye. The color matches perfectly and it brought tears to my eyes to see Tate and he was so excited too! We have been back twice already to have adjustments. It is quite the process.

Logan's take on Tate's Eye...

You often wonder what might be going on it a 2&1/2 year old's head. After Sunday and not being able to get Tate's eye turned, we really wanted to get it turned before he went to school. As we were trying to talk him into letting us do it, Logan came up to me. He likes to play this game where he pretends to go to work and rides off on his little car and then he pretend to come home. So, Logan comes up to me and says, "Bye Mom! I'm going to the doctor." I said, "Okay honey. See you later." As he is walking to his little car, he says, "I'm going to get my EAR turned."

The Evil Eye

To some, okay to most,this might be news, but a prosthetic eye has a right side up. Well, Tate's got spun in the wrong direction and it looked freaky! So, we tried to fix it but we didn't know what to do! This is all new to us! So, it was before church and I told Tate that he needed to let me fix it or people at church might think that it looked funny. He still didn't want me to fix it so I left it alone. Right before we walked out the door, he decided that he wanted his eye patch. I was cool with that and off we went. People looked and asked Tate questions but he just resonded that he didn't want to talk about it. Then came Sunday School...well, apparently somebody interupted Tate and that made him mad. Tate proceeds to tell this boy NOT to interupt and then he finishes his statement by pulling up his eye patch and sticking his eye right in the boy's face. Sure showed him...gave him the evil eye!