Today went like this...

we were all up by 6:45am. Everyone 'cept me ate which is how most weekday mornings go anyway. Tyler caught the bus and Katia and I dropped off Tayton at mom's place. We were on the road by 8:30 and on our way to Iron Mountain.
We got to Dr. Garrett's, checked in and sat with in a waiting room filled with about fifty people! I had sort of thought, we'd be in and out and Katia would be able to go to school before lunch. Well, we waited and watched as tension grew in the waiting area. One man even told the receptionist that tempers were flaring and that they better start calling people back and in order. Some people don't really get the whole concept of dr.'s offices I guess. It's not about when you got there like at the bank, it's when your appointment time is. So I'm sure this gentleman was also ticked when Katia was called before him. Now we did wait an hour so that was a bit long and he was there longer than us, but I degress.
So they took her back and right away did some tests for glaucoma. They flashed lights in front of her in this machine and on the sides and she was told to keep looking straight ahead. She was supposed to click this button as she saw flashes. I would guess that she saw about 25 percent of them and it was hard to watch. I actually started to cry a bit as the technician was prompting her to press the buttons when the obviously lights were there. We learned later that she has lost alot of peripheral vision already. After that they took really cool pictures of her optic nerve and took measurements of the cupping associated with that.
They checked her pressures in her eyes with this probe thing- like a pen and they had to touch the pupil with it! She squirmed quite a bit and ended up having it done twice. Her pressure was sort of low they said, about 18 in one eye and I'm not sure of the other. The Dr. said that some people have low pressure glaucoma. When we did meet the doctor at the end, he said that he was going to contact a glaucoma specialist in Green Bay, send over all the tests and see if he wants to see Katia or how Dr. Garrett should procede. He said since Katia is so young, he wants to be sure they take the proper steps since it's so rare. I was okay with that although not all my questions answered by him, the technician reassured me that she didn't just need glasses with a full refraction exam and found out that she has some general vison loss as well. She's farsighted- 20/50. The dr. then said that it's likely associated with the glaucoma and so no glasses yet until the specialists gets back with him this week. So more waiting. I guess we have an answer although not what we had prayed for, I keep thinking about what Aunt Chris said on a previous blog about how the Lord doesn't let anything touch us that is not for our best or his glory and that gives me so much comfort. (Thank you!)
Oh, so we finally left his office and got home about 2:30, picked up Tayton who hadn't napped, but was happy. No school for Katia, but we picked up Tyler and she went to dance class. The drops they used lasted like six hours so they had told us that she wouldn't be able to go to school today. She was happy to make it back for dance though. We visited Dad and Joy, she gave us some of her famous Jambalaya for supper- yum! One day at a time...tomorrow holds Tayton's blood results...I could use a little stress relief:-)