Great news!

Well we have been two Iowa City multiple times since my last post.  This last time, two weeks ago, was great news! Ellie had been battling a big red spot on her eye and the eye doctor brought in a specialist to look at it and he said she had a flick tenule. What does that mean you ask? It's inflamation and needs steroids and antibiotics for treatment. So we got put on more eyedrops and different ointment at night. This is good news because we figured out the redness isn't from dryness! So we can back off from eyedrops every hour to every two hours and see if the dryness is ok.  The other news was better news!! She got 20/20 minus half the line when looking through a black thing with lots of tiny holes!! She hasn't ever been to 20/20 yet. Without the black thing with holes she got 20/25 minus half the line. This was good improvement! Exciting! So we have been patching still and hope to get better results when we go Thursday to Iowa City to check the flick tenule and eyesight. Hope to get better news. Her eye isn't red anymore so the meds have helped.

We had a great time at Relay for life of Black Hawk County!! The kids had fun with family and the UNI Volleyball team. We got great pictures I'll post when I get them scanned into the computer.

This labor day weekend we get to go to family camp at Village Creek Bible Creek! We are looking forward to a fun weekend there!

Ellie is our brown little raisin minus the wrinkles.  She has been at Camp Cedar Falls all summer and swimming two times a week. Her hair has lightened also.  This last week they got to go to Lost Island in Waterloo alone with two days at The Falls. She is waterlogged and happy to take a break from swimming.

Now school starts on the 17th and she is excited!! We are getting some tax free weekend shopping in this weekend to prepare for school. I'm glad this return of the 80s fashion hasn't sparked Ellie's eye. YIKES!! is all I have to say about that.

Thank you all for your continued prayers for her progress!