No Chemo For U

Its Mistie's week off but we just cant stand to not head to the hospital at least once a week. Misties' eye was red and tearing all last week and that might not be too big of a deal except that her vision was also getting blurry... so naturally we looked it up on the web to see if it might be a side effect of taxol and as it turns out, it sure is. Monday our family doc had told us to use some artificial tears and 'eye lube' but it hasn't really seemed to make a difference. We were up at the new IMC in Murry to see another cancer doc yesterday and she recommended that we see a opthamologist (just to make sure she's not going blind from some viral infection, fair enough). So today we were back in Provo. The guy said that she had some name that takes at least 8 years of additional education to pronounce... correctly. Somehow I had forgotten to take my medical to english dictionary but finally he summed it up for us by saying that her Cornea (part of the eye) looked like someone had taken sandpaper to it and that it is likely a toxic reaction to her chemo. He gave us a cute little bottle of eye drops (with a bright blue cap that I can take on and off by myself) and we drip it in Misties eyes 4 times a day. He also said her vision should return to normal after she is done with chemo.