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We’ve read for a while now that Johnny’s going to be hospitalized. Just read on Days Cafe that Rafe goes to EJ because one of Johnny’s eyes didn’t look right in their wedding photos. EJ has Lexi look at it and suspects Cancer. Dan needs to remove Johnny’s eye and hopes the cancer hasn’t spread. Sami gets upset with Rafe for going to EJ before telling her. He was just trying to spare her the worry in case it was nothing.
Sami and EJ make peace while Johnny’s in the hospital BUT EJ’s "peace" with Sami is short lived.
a 4-yr. old is going to lose his eye to retinoblastoma, which is a cancer, mainly in children, that shows up as a white spot on the eye in a photograph. (Matt Ashford’s daughter has the disease). I’m already stocked up with the Kleenex tissues, because I know I won’t make it through this one, especially since these twins are such terrific little actors. It will undoubtedly be heart-wrenching, but I’m sure these little guys will carry the show when this storyline starts.
losing an eye is not quite that traumatic to a young child. (But they’ll have to make Johnny’s as bad as they can or there wouldn’t be any drama to it.)
My nephew lost his eye when he was also four because of a detached retina (from falling down the basement stairs). And apparently, like Johnny, we noticed it while taking a Christmas family picture, it wasn’t moving like the other one. Once the retina detached it prevents the eye from growing with the body so he had to have it removed and a prosthesis put in. It wasn’t painful and never bothered him in any way. In fact, when he was a pre-teen, he used to tell people he’d take out his artificial eye for them if they’d give him 50¢! He had to have several prostheses as he grew to continue to fit his eye socket. I think he had five in all.
I for one am not happy!!!!! This is the holiday season. Yes, people get cancer diagnoses during the holidays, but this is a soap! Where is some holiday cheer! They couldn’t wait until January to do this storyline. I am pissed that the writers have a need to do a traumatic and sad story during Christmas. Also, I know that the actor who played Jack Devereaux (his name escapes me at the moment) his daughter had this same cancer as well as the child of Hunter Tylo, who’s on another soap. Couldn’t they have brought Jack back and let there be a story with Jack Jr. instead. I think it would have had a much deeper meaning to it, much like when Chloe had leukemia (which her father died from). Not happy, not happy, not happy!
Add me too Patti. I’m just glad the put aside their differences at least for a while. I loved watching Sami and Johnny today he was so adorable with her. and when he gave her the I love you mommy sign he had the star wars sign, i laughed at that. but it was a touching scene.
this story line doesn’t need to be explored now…there is so much sadness and strife in real life these days…We cannot even watch an escapism t.v. show without being inundated with the horrors of the world at is what suppose to be a joyous and special hopeful time of the year. Shame once again on the writers. Shame!
How many young children do we have to watch go through these terrible traumas on this show?
We had to watch Zach die, we had to watch Grace die, we had to deal with Sydney being kidnapped, Ciara was kidnapped, Theo has autism, now Johnny is going to lose his eye to cancer. It certainly doesn’t pay to be a child on this show!
they could have waited until after the New Year, closer to February sweeps, if they had to do it at all. Or they could have done it earlier and had Dr. Jonas perform some sort of medical phenomena, sort of like a Christmas miracle story line. That I could accept, but having to watch this 3 days before Christmas is not my idea of Salem’s holiday story.
Maybe he’ll get in there and find there is no cancer and the eye can be saved. That would be their miracle.
of someone in one of the pictures I take has some light color to them. Does this mean that they have this disease and may not know it? Last night, I went to our grandson’s Christmas program and took pictures of the children on stage. I can’t tell you how many eyes reflected back with some light shade in them. This is a little scarey to hear that.
as the spot is "white" as opposed to just "light", and it is directly on the retina. Usually a close-up shot will show the disease much more pronounced that a distant shot, which may not show it at all. It probably would not even be detected in a ‘group’ photo. There are other symptoms as well, including drooping eye, blurred vision, and others. Google retinoblastoma and scroll down to "images for retinoblastoma" to see the symptoms.
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