Emma has an Operation

Emma had a minor operation on her eye yesterday.

For several weeks, we've been battling to get rid of what appeared to be a sty in her eye. After two doctor visits plus eye drops every day, we ended up at the Opthalmologist on Wednesday who said that two of her sebaceous ducts on her eyelid had got blocked and needed to be cleared before the infection got into the eyelid tissue. Normally they do it with local anaesthetic in the doctor's rooms but as she is a little too young to understand, he said he'll need to clear the ducts under a general anaesthetic.
What a brilliant doctor - he used all sorts of games with his light to get her to relax and cooperate with him so he could see what the problem was.

Well they went to the eye clinic in Sandton yesterday, and at about 10:30 (after a three hour wait - try do that with a child who could not eat until it was all over), he put her under and cleared the eye out. Every patient and nurse at the clinic showed an interest in her and all said good bye when she left. She soon woke-up and Mom and Emma spent the day at home sleeping and recovering.
We went through the procedure with her verbally the night before and so she was very calm and relaxed when things happened just as she expected. Quite nice as there were older children who put up a great show!

Anyhow, we took the bandage off this morning and the doctor checked her out at 12:00 and all seems fine. A bit of oitment and cleansing of the eye for the next week and all should be back to normal.

She is being an absolute star - giving us no issues when we need to clean the eye and put in the rather "gluppy" ointment.

Otherwise, Daniel's drawing ability is really taking off. He is beginning to serve up drawings of people that have clearly defined features. So nice to see. They absolutely love drawing at the moment.

interesting to see how they are also handling abstract comments and jokes. They have worked out that we fool around a lot with words and now we are sometimes the recipients of word games and incorrect statements that we used to catch them out with! Nice to see.

Otherwise the first slight chills of autumn can be felt at night. The weather has been really wonderful with little rain except for today.

We finally got tickets to the World Cup after every bid for lots of other games were turned down. Got tickets to see Denmark vs Holland at Soccer City which should be quite a good game as Holland are one of the better sides. And with my Dutch ancestory, we'll even know which team to support.
Interestingly, there are not many soccer jerseys/shirts for sale in the shops yet. Many people are wearing Bafana Bafana shorts on Fridays which have been designated "Football Fridays" at most places of work. But many people can't afford them so there is a market for cheaper copies.

Daniel and Fiona have not got rid of their dry coughs which seem to catch them unawares especially at night. So it looks like it'll be back to the Doctor on Saturday.

Our big project at the moment is preparing for the Expectant Multiple Parents seminar which Fiona runs for Samba every quarter. So nice to see how willingly all the companies donate prizes of their products for the seminar. I do the Expectant Father talk.

Come on weekend!