Series of unexpected events

On Saturday evening Aron came in the trailer and said he thought something was going wrong with his injured eye. During the day he thought his eye was watering a bit and also his left nostril was running. What he didn’t know then, but came to realize at this time, was that the fluid was leaking from his eye. When I took a good look, his injured eye appeared much smaller and sunken in than his other eye. We called the Rockyview hospital and they were anxious for us to come into emergency. Because it was already dark, we decided to leave first thing in the morning as driving the mountain roads is already challenging in winter, but driving all night without sleep as well, was a bit too risky.

We got to Rockyview Emergency the following day and they immediately took Aron into to assess him. After determining that the cornea was in such rough shape that trying to repair it would likely not be very viable.  They recommended gluing the rupture closed and then performing an emergency cornea transplant. So we are staying in Calgary for this week and Aron will be having his cornea transplant tomorrow.

While we were gone the drywalling started and unexpectedly the siding crew showed up. Also we found out that one of our major beams is not supported as the engineers expected. We are unsure of how it will be corrected, but it may be a fairly significant effort. So this was a series of events that have definitely thrown us some curve balls.

If all goes well with the cornea transplant we expect to head home on Saturday.  Once we are home I will post some photos of the work that has been done this week in our absence.