Adam in the hospital

It's a bummer that I'm finally updating the blog for the first time in two months with that subject:(

Adam was admitted to the hospital yesterday afternoon after being diagnosed with two different ailments: shingles of the eye and  pseudotumor oculi (or idiopathic orbital inflammatory syndrome.) Yes, that's the language we're speaking now after a week of hearing doctors use those terms and others like them! Here it is in layman terms: chicken pox in his eye,  and inflamed eye muscles that are squeezing his eyeball. Both cause excruciating pain and the poor guy has them on top of each other.

The opthamologist said that not only has he never seen these two conditions together, but that it may be THE first time it's ever happened.  Because of that, they wanted a more a team approach to try to decide how to treat him, since the steroids used to treat the pseudotumor could make the shingles worse. In addition his pain was completely unmanageable at home and he needed to be on a morphine iv for any relief.

No word on why this occurred- seems to be a freak thing; since he is otherwise completely healthy.

So far he is responding well to iv meds and is doing so much better than yesterday (or the 4 days before that!) If he keeps improving we'll be released tomorrow.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!