Overall, the news we received today was comforting. First from the neurologist at Mercy, we found out that Adam’s brain is not affected at all. He was not alarmed at all with the symptoms he is having and said that this is pretty standard recovery time for shingles of the eye. It’s just going to take longer than we thought it would to recover. Basically, the nerves on the surface of his eye and around it are damaged and “mad” right now and therefore producing the photophobia. He said that we’ll see a slow and steady improvement over the next 3 months. He was able to prescribe another medicine to help repair the nerves and one to help him sleep through the itching at night.
Then we headed to the U of I for a second opinion from another cornea specialist. After having a ton of bright lights shined in his eyes (poor guy) they agreed with everything that Wolfe Clinic is already doing, added one more drop to keep his eye dilated and increased the dosage on all of his current medicine. They too, said that recovery will be long and slow. There can be lingering and secondary problems associated this, but we’ll deal with that if it happens.
We can handle with slow recovery as long as we know now that it’s not something more serious. Yay~! It is amazing how God has programmed our bodies to heal and even provides the “tech support” along the way!:)
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