The Pressures of Being Famous

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/255/story/966377.htm is the link to a great story in the Bellingham Herald about Clepson and the people who made his surgery possible. Journalist Kie Relyea did a super job! I love this photo that was on the front page of the Bellingham Herald. Clepson is not so impressed! He hates for everyone to see him so vulnerable and we won't even mention the muffin like hat he is stylin'! I tried to get a photo of Clepson holding the newspaper, but my camera batteries were dead. In fact, we have no batteries that are charged in the entire house. Clepson broke out in a big grin and said "alleluia!" See where the power of prayer can get you;) I am sure he will appreciate the photo and story one day, but this week has been very hard on Clepson emotionally.

We have spent the last two days struggling to keep the conformer in Clepson's eye. I finally resorted to doing some online searching and came across a wonderful website www.losteye.com and posted a plea on the discussion board for tips on keeping the conformer in. Most commonly the answer was "ask the surgeon to put a stitch in the eyelids to hold them together until the swelling goes down". One person suggested using some medical tape to tape his eyelid shut to hold it in. We have gone with the taped shut method with pretty good success.

Clepson had started to act very depressed. He was sitting, not talking and looking grim. I decided to take him off the big pain killers and go with Tylenol. I know some people get depressed on narcotics and his pain at this point mainly centers around his eye being irritated when we have to put the conformer back in.

We went to the long awaited movie theater trip today and Clepson loved it. He ate a Large bucket of popcorn which was a relief as he had eaten little for the past few days. Clepson has been missing home and asked if I could make some Haitian food. I am going to need some advice on recipes to make that happen!

Tomorrow Clepson has a visit with Dr. Mike again and wants to go to Sarah's house. I think he needs to feel more NORMAL and less isolated. Hopefully he can keep his activity to a minimum, but I am going to take him over for a short visit at least.