Joshua’s Eye Surgery
My son
Joshua, is scheduled to see a pediatric eye specialist on July 27. When Joshua was around two and a half years
old, we noticed that his eyes would “wonder” in occasionally, especially when
taking his picture. At first, it was
slightly noticeable, but has gotten more predominate over time. My other two children also had the same issue
when they were young, but they both grew out of it, with glasses.
So we
decided to take him to the eye doctor and have his checked out. The result was that he is a little
near-sighted, but he has a condition where is eye muscles that control the
movement of his eyes is too long. We got
him so glasses, which at first was an awful experience. If you have small children with glasses you
know what I’m talking about. We went
through three pair in almost eleven months.
Broken frames, broken ear piece, and when cleaning one pair I snapped
them right in half. After the adjustment
period wore off, he now wears them fine.
But we have learned when he wants to take them off, we let him. So we don’t find them broken in the corner
somewhere.
After two
years of wearing glasses, the situation hasn’t corrected itself like we had
hoped. His right eye has gotten a lot
better, but the left still pulls in.
Then we started taping the inside corners of his lenses with frosted
tape to try and teach his brain to pull his eyes out and away from the tape,
that unfortunately didn’t work either.
Sometimes they are completely fine, with no pulling in at all and then
when he doesn’t focus any longer, then they pull in, not both at the same time,
the eye doctor said that was one of the good things, his eyes alternate. She said this meant it wasn’t straining just
one of his eyes.
My husband
and I, have really debated on seeing the surgeon. But I know if it isn’t corrected now he may
never grow out of it, and may cause serious eye damage later on in his
life. The doctor has tried to reassure
us it is a common surgery, recovery is two days at most, he will be an
outpatient. They will put him to sleep
and snip the eye muscles to make them shorter to control movement. But as a parent, I am extremely nervous about
this. But I know it’s for the best
welfare of my child, and just pray that God will keep him safe.
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