We've set the date!

I may not have mentioned it before on the blog, but Margaret Anne has a blocked tear duct. Your tear duct (nasolacrimal duct to be exact) drains the tears out of your eye. This is one reason why your nose runs when you cry, the excess tears flow down the duct into your nose. A blocked tear duct in a baby occurs when the tear duct is too narrow or is blocked by a membrane that shouldn't be there, and tears cannot drain from the eye down into the nose like they should. This results in the tears overflowing out of the eye onto the lower lid, and in a goopy build up (very technical term) in the corner of the eye.

Margaret Anne's blocked duct first made its presence known when she was about 2 days old, and never really showed any signs that it was going to clear up on its own. We went to a pediatric opthamologist and he suggested surgery to correct it, and told us we could wait until she was one and see if it would clear up on its own, but more than likely it wouldn't. And it didn't. So now Margaret Anne is going to have surgery to "unclog" her tear duct on September 9th. I am more than a little nervous about this, because she will be under anesthesia, but I have heard great things about the doctor and I know she will be a lot happier without us wiping goo off of her face all of the time. Please pray that everything goes well for her!This is a picture from her birthday (thanks Leigh!) where you can see how it gets gooey and red from us wiping it. I know she will be glad to have the problem cleared up, and we will too!