Mr. Patch Man

Yesterday was a check up with Ethan's eye doctor. There is good news and some not so bad news. The good news is that the patching we have been doing on his eye has actually helped his eye and he is looking straighter with it. He has also started to use that eye a little more and increased his vision (not that it was bad before). The not so bad news is that he is actually crossing it more, when he is crossing; so the doc said we need to do some more surgery. So in a couple of months Ethan is going to go in and have some surgery done on his eye. They will actually move both the side muscles by loosening one and making the other side tighter. It will be an outpatient surgery just like before. The doc said to continue to patch for the two hours a day so that we don't lose anything that we have gained. So in hindsight this is a good thing. I was prepared that we were most likely going to have to do some surgery, so I'm ok. I wish my little guy didn't have to go through this again, but better now then when he is older. Also if we don't do anything now then if his eye becomes completely lazy he will eventually stop using it and lose vision. The other good thing is that most of the time most people can't tell when he does it. It's not like he crosses with both of his eyes. It's more that he prefers to use one at a time, so usually he will focus on us with both eyes and they look completely straight, and other times his left eye will go in and the other one will look at us. It's not too bad, but enough to need some surgery to make them straight.

Our doctor is great and I completely trust him. I'm also grateful that we've went through this process before and we know what to expect. The doctor said that this is definitely fixable and that no matter what we will get his eyes straight. The one thing he can't guarantee is if Ethan will ever use both of his eyes together. Hopefully this will help correct everything and if not, then we will go from there. We just take it one step at a time. The doctor said the crazy thing is that his eyes look just like the eyes of a child who needs glasses to correct farsightedness...but that he doesn't need glasses because there is no sign of farsightedness at all. I'm just so thankful that he is healthy, happy, and just as bit as crazy as every other little boy! This is just one small trial that is completely correctable! So off to surgery we go in a couple of months! Wish us luck!!