Showing posts with label amblyopia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amblyopia. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Update on Rachel's Eyes

Rachel's crossed eye has regressed to all-out lazy eye (amblyopia).  She now must be patched three hours a day until she's seven or so.  As you can see, she's not all that happy about it.  She is a very mild-mannered girl and so she is just weepy about it, but she hasn't protested much.  She's playing a game on the computer right now.  Poor little Ray.



Thursday, July 9, 2009

More On Rachel

I may be over-reacting and I think I may be wrong on the glasses thing, because she displays no signs of sight loss. Although it took her a long time to learn the colors, she picks them out with no problems now. I have limited experience with this in that my friend Meagan's daughter has glaucoma, a cataract and therefore lazy eye and she's had to patch Savannah. Savannah, to me, showed signs of sight loss: bumping into things and using her hands in ways I never saw my own kids do. I don't see Rachel doing any of the things that I saw Savannah do. But then again, Savannah doesn't wear glasses either. I don't know much of anything about this and if you read the info on lazy eye that I linked to yesterday, you know as much as me. I need to stop making my own diagnosis and just try to forget about it until we can get in to the doctor. I did want to post a picture for you so you can see what it is that makes us concerned.

It's hard to get a picture since it's so fleeting. This morning Dad and I were looking at pictures from May with the girls and we came across this one. If you zoom up on her face you can see distinctly that her right eye is doing something funny.

But oh.my.goodness. Isn't she cute!!! The one thing I do know for sure is that if we don't get to it right now, her brain will stop using that eye, therefore it is imperative to fix it now.