Oh, what a week! I took Emma to the eye doctor on Friday...the wait is always so long...especially for a 5-year old! We got there about 15 minutes before her appointment, at 2:05pm and didn't leave the office until 5:00pm! CRAZY! This was considered her "annual" appointment, so they did all the basic measuring, examining, measuring, dilating, waiting for the eyes to dilate, measuring, examining, waiting, then FINALLY get to see Dr. Chris. What a pain! Fortunately, I was unhappily expecting all this waiting, so I brought paper and a pen (which Emma drew some FABULOUS pictures of our family and a family of butterflies and ladybugs!), her Ariel (Little Mermaid) barbies (two of them), and then when that was boring her, I had games on my cell phone she played with.
So once we got to see Dr. Chris. I pulled out these pictures. Contrary to what they look like, they are NOT mirror images! They were taken one after the other...this is what her eyes do! Once I showed them to Dr. Chris, he totally agreed with me that they have not gotten better and we are at the end of the list of ideas to try to help her eyes correct themselves on their own. So, we talked about surgery. He said it's a fairly simple surgery, only taking about an hour. It's a bilateral medial rectus recession....which basically means he will "loosen" the medial rectus muscles on both of her eyes. He said she'll be asking for pizza by the end of the night...kids are so resilient to this surgery! He couldn't promise that this would be the last surgery, since no one can predict what the eyes or brain will do, but he has a patient who had this surgery at age 14 and then again at age 58! So, she may or may not need her glasses afterwards and her vision is still excellent...but, as Dr. Chris said, the goal of the surgery is not to get her out of the glasses, it's to get her eyes to be straight! The surgery is scheduled for the morning of April 28th and we have the same types of procedure as we did for Bradlee's tubes surgery! Call the day before for the times, outpatient surgery, etc. etc. We've talked about it quite openly around Emma, and she hasn't asked about it yet, so I'm not going to really talk about it until it gets closer. By the time this one's done, we will be pros at this outpatient surgery stuff!
Oh, what a week! I took Emma to the eye doctor on Friday...the wait is always so long...especially for a 5-year old! We got there about 15 minutes before her appointment, at 2:05pm and didn't leave the office until 5:00pm! CRAZY! This was considered her "annual" appointment, so they did all the basic measuring, examining, measuring, dilating, waiting for the eyes to dilate, measuring, examining, waiting, then FINALLY get to see Dr. Chris. What a pain! Fortunately, I was unhappily expecting all this waiting, so I brought paper and a pen (which Emma drew some FABULOUS pictures of our family and a family of butterflies and ladybugs!), her Ariel (Little Mermaid) barbies (two of them), and then when that was boring her, I had games on my cell phone she played with.
So once we got to see Dr. Chris. I pulled out these pictures. Contrary to what they look like, they are NOT mirror images! They were taken one after the other...this is what her eyes do! Once I showed them to Dr. Chris, he totally agreed with me that they have not gotten better and we are at the end of the list of ideas to try to help her eyes correct themselves on their own. So, we talked about surgery. He said it's a fairly simple surgery, only taking about an hour. It's a bilateral medial rectus recession....which basically means he will "loosen" the medial rectus muscles on both of her eyes. He said she'll be asking for pizza by the end of the night...kids are so resilient to this surgery! He couldn't promise that this would be the last surgery, since no one can predict what the eyes or brain will do, but he has a patient who had this surgery at age 14 and then again at age 58! So, she may or may not need her glasses afterwards and her vision is still excellent...but, as Dr. Chris said, the goal of the surgery is not to get her out of the glasses, it's to get her eyes to be straight! The surgery is scheduled for the morning of April 28th and we have the same types of procedure as we did for Bradlee's tubes surgery! Call the day before for the times, outpatient surgery, etc. etc. We've talked about it quite openly around Emma, and she hasn't asked about it yet, so I'm not going to really talk about it until it gets closer. By the time this one's done, we will be pros at this outpatient surgery stuff!
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Oh, my little Emma. What a bummer -but in the end the surgery will so be worth it. She and I will be recouping at the same time. I am having foot surgery on April 30th
:-) Hugs to all of you.
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