Surgery Set For June

3:10pm

The Baltimore trip was a success! Taylor met with Dr. Byrne yesterday in Baltimore. He has approved doing surgery, and we'll get it scheduled sometime in June - pending approval from the insurance company.

In addition to the surgery to help restore his smile, the Doctor will do some additional tweaking to help with facial symmetry. Taylor's left lower eyelid will be lifted so that the eye opening is the same size. This will also help protect his eye some. His inability to squint his eye really aggravates him sometime. Over the weekend in Washington, it was pretty cold and windy on Saturday. Because he can't squint his eye, the constant wind blowing really irritated it. The left eyebrow will also be lifted. As he ages, he'll have to get more procedures to keep pace with the right side.

The surgery is expected to take about 7 hours. Taylor will be in the hospital overnight and will stay in Baltimore for a week. There will be a lot of swelling, and there 1 in 15 chance for infection, based on the 30 previous procedures that have been done. Fortunately, his mother has a cousin in Baltimore so he'll have a comfortable place to recover instead of being in a hotel room for a week.

Taylor has an appointment on April 10th with the eye surgeon in Tampa. Hopefully, he'll find out if the new eyeglass lense he's using has aligned his left eye. If so, then surgery will likely happen this summer.