i posted this on my lj, but i don't think any people that read this have heard. matt had surgery on his right eye, thursday.

he had been having some minor problems with it for almost a month. he had gone to see an eye doctor last friday, in oregon. the doctors told him to just keep a watch on it and see his doctor when he got home. he called me tuesday night, from salt lake city, really upset. it was getting worse and was starting to lose some vision in his eye. he really wanted to come home. they left the tour early and started driving. i found him a plane ticket out of Denver and he got to St. Louis around 1pm wednesday. i took off work early and picked him up. we drove to Evansville, IN and met his parents at a Retina Specialists office. he told him his retina was about 1/3 detached. there were a couple holes in the vitrius (i have no idea how to spell that word). there were also a couple holes in his other eye.. i think it was called lattice (sp?) degenaration. (around 4 years ago, his brother had a retina detach. there's also a family history of issues like this.)

so, that doctor told us to go to a doctor in St. Louis. thursday morning, we left around 5:30am, headed back to STL. he saw the doctor at Barnes Jewish hospital at 9:30am. he scheduled him for surgery at 3pm at St. Luke's. everything went really well. they did the surgery on the main eye -- they did a Buckle and put a gas bubble in there so his retina will re-attach. they also did some laser surgery in the other eye to prevent anything from happening. we left the hospital around 9pm or so. he never got sick or anything and the pain hasn't gotten bad, so that is such a blessing!! he's doing really well. he has to keep his head tilted forward at all times and can only sleep on his left side, for about 3 weeks probably -- or just whenever the gas bubble has fully absorbed.

it was pretty scary stuff. i couldn't get off of work yesterday, because we had this workshop to go to, but i came to KY last night. he can't really do anything, so he's pretty bored. just thought i would let everyone know what was going on, and to keep him your prayers. he goes back to the doctor friday.