Reed has to start wearing an eye patch for 2 hours a day on his right eye to strengthen his left eye which is still turning in. His right eye is great and his left eye is so much better than it was, but it's just not where is should be. This could be caused by an over correction by the doctor in his first surgery or by the brain not being willing to respond to and accept the change.
I have to schedule a second surgery for sometime in late fall. This will give us a chance to see if the patch works. If we find that it did it's job then we will cancel the surgery. However, we knew going into this that a second surgery is the case at least 50% of the time with strabismus patients.
This just really sucks. I wanted the doctor to say, "Yes, his eye is looking a lot better" and then just leave it at that. Instead I got, "His eye is looking a lot better, but it looks like we're going to need to start patching and then go ahead and schedule another surgery." At least I was able to keep it together until I got back to work. I tried really hard there too, but my supervisor is just too sweet. One hug from her and I was in tears.
I know that things could be MUCH worse...but he's my baby and I hate that he has to go through this stuff (even if he's never going to remember it). But, my life verse is Jeremiah 29:11 and I need to keep that close to my heart. God has a plan for Reed and He's taking care of him every step of the way.
Let's cheer ourselves up with some pictures of the cute little monster:
This one is for Uncle Tyler.
"Mom, please? I promise I'll play with it."
Well, with looks like that at least we know that he'll be the cutest little pirate ever to have existed.
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