Good news from the doctor

Saturday we went back to see the eye doctor. Again there was a check on Robb's vision. He has progressed dramatically from "okay, no eye chart. Can you see my hand waving 3 inches from your face?" Now he actually reads the top couple of lines on an eye chart across the room using his right eye. This is very good!

Again the pressure in his eye is good, the examination indicates the retina is still attached and in position. The gas bubble holding everything in place is much smaller. Dr. Kwan says now we need just 1 kind of eye drop, 3 times a day. We'll return in two weeks, on December 9. If the bubble keeps shrinking at this pace, it seems likely that we will get the okay to travel in about 3 weeks. If the bubble remains, but is very small there are some eye drops that can make it safe to travel. We're hoping that we can come home in mid-December.

Three weeks... is that a short time or a long time? Suddenly I feel like I'd better do some more serious sightseeing!

In that spirit, this weekend we decided to take the brand new cable car from Tung Chung, up the Lantau mountain. This is a new tourist attraction, just open this October. We arrived around 2 pm, to discover that we had a 2 hour wait to board the cable car and it was too late to get a 2-way ticket. We'd need to take a bus back down the mountain. So... we chose to just hang out at the Tung Chung MTR station and watch the kids playing in the plaza fountain instead. We are very easily amused.







Parking lot for bicycles