Isaac and Sarah had appointments with the opthalmologist this morning.
Isaac has amblyopia, more commonly known as "lazy eye". His left eye had almost completely shut down becuase his brain decided the information from it was useless.
He has been patching his good eye for 6 to 8 hours each day for the last 6 months. Isaac is not one of the world's most mellow, compliant people, and I prayed before we started that the patching would go well.
Wow, God answered that prayer! Isaac has been SUCH a trooper about wearing the eye patch.
We saw dramatic improvement the first 2 months, almost no improvement the second two months, and good improvement today. I was so relieved that he did improve. His left eye started at 20/150, and now is at 20/50 WITH glasses.
Sarah is very far sighted with both eyes and is wearing glasses when she is awake. The doctor did a bunch of simple tests since of course she can't talk yet :-). Sarah is responding well to visual stimuli and her eyes are not crossing at all. So she is doing well but needs to be monitored carefully.
We are thankful that the results have been good so far, and that we can have access to an excellent opthalmologist.
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I'm glad to hear that there is improvement :) that's always a good thing.
Sarah
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