Miracle hands of a surgeon/Carlos Pueblo

 Miracle hands of a surgeon/Carlos Pueblo

Just two days before, I have witness a successful procedure of an eye surgery for my son Arthur. I call the miracle hands of a surgeon who has prevent him from the blindness. I have learned a lot ever since he was born almost 37 years before. He came to the world with a severe Stickler's syndrome birth defect. He couldn't breath when he was born, no cry and his body was in dark color because his wind pipe collapsed when he breathed. A surgeon inserted a tube from his neck to his lungs called the tracheotomy. He also had a cleft palate inside his mouth; therefore, he couldn't take food either  and relied a NG tube to take the liquid fluid formula and milk. Both di-efficiency and others were corrected by surgeons before his age of six. He had had no major health issues or surgery requirement since then until two cataract procedures in the past three years. We suspect that early age cataract surgery is related to his syndrome.

The doctors at Texas Children Hospital identified his syndrome by his cleft palate and treated him as a baby with respiratory difficulty. First, there was an ENT surgeon had attempted twice to remove a small piece of rip to strengthen his wind pipe and twice he failed. We didn't dare let him do it again on the third time. Finally, we were lucky to receive a recommendation to Dr. Rubin Cotton at the Cincinnati Children. He made it and removed the tracheotomy and closed the hole on the neck in 1991, right at the short conflict of the first Gulf War with Iraq.

There was a dentist specialist in plastic surgery who was successfully corrected the palate and healed the crack; therefore, he could start to take solid food. He was at Bendwood School for disable kids. His class teacher was amazed how much progress that he made and asked us to referred another unfortunate girl at the class to that plastic surgeon for her outside cleft palate. I still remember vividly now how disappointed I was to hear that the surgeon told me that her case was so solution at that time of the medical technology.

The other day, he told me that he had a retinal detachment according to his research on the You Tube vlog, a one eye blind girl with a Stickler Syndrome. We rushed to have an appointment with his regular eye surgeon who did both his eyes cataract procedures. The doctor was booked for the entire week; therefore, the eyes associates referred him to another eye doctor. This physician couldn't find anything yet referred his to a retina specialist, Dr. Andrew Kopel who came in to rescue me from my left eye cataract procedure. He couldn't tell the detachment either on the first visit yet recommended to have another appointment in three weeks. Arthur couldn't wait that long, on the second week there was an emergency situation. The black spot was getting larger. After careful looking and taking photos, he referred us to his old classmate, Dr. Petros Carvounis at the medical center area for the emergency surgery on the next day, a Saturday. I am so appreciated that through his kindness and our luck, we got it done successfully on that day.