How Miriam Hurt Her Eye

On Wednesday, April 14th Miriam was in the backyard playing when she picked up a piece of an old yardstick (wooden) and broke it. A piece of the stick flew up and hit her in the eye.

Jennie called me at work and said something was wrong, we quickly rushed Miriam to the hospital where the gave her emergency surgery to stitch up her eye. It seems as though a piece of the stick punctured her eye causing the Iris to stick through the lens, a cataract to form an the back of the eye to hemorrhage.

The Doctor informed us that Miriam would need to go to the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa to have another surgery to remove the cataract.

Amber drove Jennie and Miriam to Iowa City on Thursday for what we thought at the time would be a day surgery. This is when we found out it was much more serious and that Miriam would need to stay a while.

So Amber returned home and Jennie's mom flew out on Friday night to be with them. Thankfully, Jennies Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt live only 45 minutes away from Iowa City and have been there with her every day.Saturday, April 17th, 2004 at 09:44 AM - By: Dad