Amelie had her eye exam on Tuesday. It was the follow-up after her 5 weeks of ALL-DAY patching. It was a hard 5 weeks. She's going past a year now of this patching thing and frankly she's tired of it, and so am I. Both Rick and I kept reminding her that if she did a good job wearing her patch all day every day, then at her next appointment she might not have to wear it anymore, or maybe only a little bit. And even though she did her fair share of complaining, she did it, and I give her props for it. It was a hard thing to ask of a 5 year old girl. She wants so badly to be done with it, she even prayed at night and at meal times that her eye would get better so she wouldn't have to patch anymore.
The good news is, her eye DID get significantly better! She went from 20/100 vision 5 weeks ago to 20/50. We haven't seen ANY improvement in so long, so we were happy to hear that her efforts had paid off. The bad news is, the doctor pretty much said "Well, the all-day patching is definitely working, so keep on doing it." What? That's not what either of us were expecting to hear. At our last visit, the doctor made it sound like it was not medically safe for her to wear her patch all day for more than 5 weeks. It could start causing problems with her good eye to be patched all the time. Apparently we were mistaken. The Doctor said the goal is to get her eyes to 20/20 vision, and then reduce patching to a few hours a day to maintain it, until she feels it's ok to stop all together. So...we were kind of bummed, but still happy that it is working. So she will continue patching all day until her next appointment in 7 weeks.
After her appointment we went on a mommy-daughter date to see the movie Brave. It was cute, she loved it, and we enjoyed being together.
Side note: Summer time with 4 children at home ALL the time has taken its toll on my nerves and body. So the other morning I decided to try de-stressing myself by doing some yoga. As you can see, Soleil didn't want to leave me alone, still wanted to be the center of attention I guess. She was pretty much crawling all over me most of the time, at one point sitting on my back and bouncing up and down while I was trying to do the Cobra pose. And what you can't see is Sawyer on the couch playing with some type of weapon and being rowdy and...you know...just doing what he does best. Kind of killed the whole idea of relaxing you know? So I gave up.
The good news is, her eye DID get significantly better! She went from 20/100 vision 5 weeks ago to 20/50. We haven't seen ANY improvement in so long, so we were happy to hear that her efforts had paid off. The bad news is, the doctor pretty much said "Well, the all-day patching is definitely working, so keep on doing it." What? That's not what either of us were expecting to hear. At our last visit, the doctor made it sound like it was not medically safe for her to wear her patch all day for more than 5 weeks. It could start causing problems with her good eye to be patched all the time. Apparently we were mistaken. The Doctor said the goal is to get her eyes to 20/20 vision, and then reduce patching to a few hours a day to maintain it, until she feels it's ok to stop all together. So...we were kind of bummed, but still happy that it is working. So she will continue patching all day until her next appointment in 7 weeks.
After her appointment we went on a mommy-daughter date to see the movie Brave. It was cute, she loved it, and we enjoyed being together.
Side note: Summer time with 4 children at home ALL the time has taken its toll on my nerves and body. So the other morning I decided to try de-stressing myself by doing some yoga. As you can see, Soleil didn't want to leave me alone, still wanted to be the center of attention I guess. She was pretty much crawling all over me most of the time, at one point sitting on my back and bouncing up and down while I was trying to do the Cobra pose. And what you can't see is Sawyer on the couch playing with some type of weapon and being rowdy and...you know...just doing what he does best. Kind of killed the whole idea of relaxing you know? So I gave up.
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