we need your prayers, yet again.

Lila's pediatrician wanted her to undergo some tests up at primary's to see what might be leading to her developmental delay. We saw a neurologist last week who referred us to an ophthalmologist this morning. Bad news. Lila has cataracts in both of her eyes. She has to have immediate emergency surgery tomorrow to remove one and then another surgery in a week to remove the other. The scary thing is that in children the critical time for the brain to interpret sight is within eleven to fourteen weeks of life. Lila is almost twelve.... meaning that the brain may not be able to interpret the stimuli and she could be blind. Also there could be complications during the surgery and she could go blind. Obviously we are devastated.
The best case scenario would be that the surgery goes as planned and Lila will be fitted with hard contacts that she will have to wear for a year until they do two more surgeries to implant new lenses into her eyes. Which then will mean that she will just need glasses to read as she grows.
So far we feel like things have all happened for a reason. Lila's pediatrician is like family and has said that with another patient she wouldn't have referred her to primary's this early in the game. Because of her nicu stay some delay is normal, and she would have given her more time to develop, but she felt the need to send her up to primary since she is so emotionally involved. Then the Neurologist told us that getting into the ophthalmologist usually takes a month or so and yet we got in in less than a week. I hope this means that these are all little miracles that will save Lila's sight. But we could still use all of your prayers, thanks....