Lawrence’s ONH Blog

Thursday, August 6th

August 7th, 2009

It’s us and we are glad to be home. Sorry for not blogging, but we have been trying to adjust to the time change. We got into El Paso at 4:30 p.m. and were greeted by our friends and family. It was great. We went straight to eat Mexican food — we missed it so much. Our friends and family had groceries and made food for us. They are absolutely awesome! It took us about 3 nights to get adjusted to sleeping at night.
Lawrence is doing great. He started back at band on Monday 8-4, so he was pretty tired the first day. He loves music, so it has not been a sacrifice at all. His friends were very happy to see him and one noticed that his nystagmus was much less. He told him that his eyes hardly moved anymore. He also saw his band director’s yellow t-shirt from short distance at the airport. These were immediate things that happened.
As the week has gone on, he is noticing different things here and there. I have been continuing to test him with the letters on paper and computer screen. He can see much better on my laptop at home, which does not have any glare. He noticed the difference immediately. The letters are 450 font. The letters on the paper are about 7 inches from his face. Today, I showed him the 6 blue circles I had tested him with in China and he could tell me that they were blue circles. This is soooooo awesome.
Emani and I are so happy for him and he is so happy for his “sight”. I will update as new things come up. Again, thanks for everyone’s prayers-prayer is very powerful.
Just a little note, we miss all the families we met in China and all the wonderful staff at the hospital.

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