N's Eyes

Okay...time for me to finally post about his eyes.

Before he was born, we knew that his biological father and sister had both dealt with a lazy eye.  His sister dealt with it when she was little, but it corrected itself.

When he was born and even in the first few months, everything seemed fine.  We didn't see any problems.

Over the summer, we were in Tennessee for a youth conference and during our trip, we noticed that he seemed to be going cross-eyed a lot.  This is normal in babies, but it seemed to be happening a lot.  People that had seen us just two weeks earlier at camp even commented on it.

When he had his four month appointment, the doctor noticed it and gave us a referral to see an eye specialist.  (We are still struggling with health insurance, so we didn't go. More on that later.)

Our pediatrician thinks that he has something called esotropia, which means that the muscles in one of his eyes, his left eye, are weak.  While he may appear cross-eyed at times, he is not.  Being cross-eyed means that both eyes go in at the same angle, which is not the case with him.

We have started patching his right eye, hoping to strengthen the muscles in his left eye.  From researching it, we know that they normally try the patch first, then glasses, and then surgery.

We also have his big eye appointment on the 27th of this month and I'm curious to see what they have to say.  We got the paperwork for his appointment and it told us that we need to expect our first appointment to last two hours.  Sounds like fun, huh?