Eye see?

We had a roller coaster of a day today. I will start with telling you what happened last Saturday. Joseph's eyes had been bothering him so we took him to the eye doctor to see what was wrong. After having him look at pictures and decided they needed to take a better look they decided to dialate his eye. He was so squirmy that they rescheduled for Wednesday (today) to have him be put under anesthesia and check out his eyes better. So this morning at 6:45 Joseph and I headed to the hospital. By 7:30 they had taken him back and I was left waiting for about an hour the whole time thinking that we were going to have to start investing in glasses. Well the doctor came back to talk to me and informed me Joseph had cataracts. WOW! What a shock for me. I had to tell myself not to cry. He then went on to tell me he had more problems with his eyes and was not quite sure what it was and we would have to take him to a specialist up in Salt Lake. He left me to go and see if we would be able to go up today. They soon brought Joseph back into the room and we started getting some liquids in him since he had been fasting. Within a half and hour the nurse came back in to tell me the doctor doesn't want Joseph to have anything to drink or eat and he was coming to talk to me more. So at this time I was thinking 'are they going to do cataract surgery right now?' Well they sent in another specialist to inform me about what else was wrong with his eye. They believed he has uveitis and they need to go into both of his eyes and take out his vitreous and put some other form of liquid and steriods into his eye and with hopes that this would help clear up the cataract. Since both eyes need the procedure done they said they would do the right eye today and wait until next week to do the left eye. Well Jeremiah got Micah(his brother) to come watch the other kids and hurried down to the hospital. By 12:30 they were rolling Joseph back out of the room to go and have surgery. One of the sweet nurses gave us some meal tickets so we could go get lunch while we waited. Well the doctor finally came back in around 2:30. The procedure went really well and the really great news was he did not have cataracts. What they believed to be the cataract was just caused by the uveitis. He informed us there was plaque on his lens, that they got most of it off, and that the steroids should help the rest to come off. Joseph was brought back into the room around 3:30 and he slowly woke up. We finally got to head home around 5:45 (11 hours after arriving). He is doing really well and is acting pretty normal. He has a big patch over his eye that we are trying to keep on until tomorrow morning when we go in for a check up.
Please keep him in your prayers. He is such a brave boy who we love very much. He was such a trooper and all the nurses told us what a good boy he was and how cute. We will keep you updated with next weeks surgery.