Penny Goes to an Eye Specialist

Winky

She has distichiasis, a.k.a. abnormal growth of eyelashes from glands underneath her eyelid

It causes tearing and squinting and can damage her cornea and cause vision problems if untreated

Scared on the exam table

Resting with Daddy afterwards

At the Dr.’s, they numbed her eyeballs and put drops in, stained them green to check for ulcers, and checked the pressures in her eyes. They then turned out the lights and looked at her eyes with magnifying glasses and special goggles. The Dr. said that she has about 20 lashes growing outward from underneath her lid on each eye. She also has more that are growing downward, and are more sharp, from farther back under the lids. She is on artificial tear ointment now and goes back on Monday to have surgery to get them all removed. The sharper ones have to be dissected out and the other ones have to be frozen off by performing cryosurgery. One more week and she won’t be “Little Winky” anymore!

Our trip across the country!

CA to GA. 2,312 miles. 4 days.


Saying goodbye

Goldie is all ready to go!

Windmills in the desert


Rest stop in Arizona

We made it safely to Tucson on day 1.

Leaving Tucson on the morning of day 2

$3.09/gal in Tucson

We made it to New Mexico!

We made it to Texas!

Looking over the Texas border at Mexico

$2.95/gal in Weatherford, Tx

We stayed the night in Midland Tx and woke up to this sunrise on day 3

We made it to Louisiana at the end of day 3

This is what Louisiana looks like

Mississippi!

The Mississippi River

More Mississippi

Alabama!

Here is Alabama

We made it to Georgia!

Here it is!