So you can see that I've been instructed to patch her eye. The doctor said to patch for 4 hours a day, every day. Basically she's not using her left eye much at all, so we need to patch her right eye to train her brain to start using the left eye. It is only her left eye that is lazy. She will have to have surgery as well to straightened the eye, but she needs be able to use it first or else I'm told that the eye will basically go "lazy" again even after surgery. The surgery will be in about 2 months. We go back in 1 month to see how everything is looking. Day 1 of patching actually went pretty good. She's not really picking at it and we were able to get 2 really good 2 hours stretches. Now, its new, so I'm sure the novelty will wear off quickly and we will have days that are challenging. The doctor actually made sure she told me that if she wears the patch while sleeping, that doesn't count towards the 4 hours......really?? These few pics (with her not looking into the camera of course) have crazy red-eye because of her huge pupils from having her eyes dilated.
3 comments:
Good luck with the patching. It became a struggle here but we're doing ok. I love those eye patches. Very cute. Interesting note- she, Colby, and another boy from Russia all have had to patch the right eye. What is it with lazy left eyes???
Melissa
Poor thing. Patching does not look comfortable. But that is quite the cool looking patch :)
The novelty wore off with Jackson, so do it while you can! Also, they are hard to seal around the eye and keep the light out!
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