Today was Barrett's post-op appointment with the pediatric opthamologist. We have been noticing that his left eye is now tracking out sometimes (rather than in), however, we were hoping that it was just the eye adjusting to it's new position. I was expecting Dr. P to tell me I was overanalyzing and that we needed to just wait for the eye to keep healing. Instead he reafirrmed that indeed the eye is tracking out some of the time now, however, it's too early to determine if another surgery is needed. When they tested his vision, his left eye is noticibly worse than his right eye. He kept trying to move the nurse's hand away when she covered his left eye so that he could see the picture more clearly.
For the next 6 weeks we have to go back to patching (UGH!) 2 hours a day and he has to keep wearing his glasses. On March 25th we go back and they'll dilate his eyes and re-evaluate. Dr. P thought he'd probably be prescribing him a different lens for his glasses. I'm not sure if we'll just do patching and glasses for another year before we find out about surgery or what. We'll have to wait until the end of March to find out. Right now the Dr. said that we need to let his eyes continue healing and he said that they are healing well. We can tell that his left eye is still working (at least when the right eye is patched). When he was wearing his patch last night he was running around the house dribbling the basketball and didn't seem to have any problems seeing the ball or where he was going, so that's good.
The appointment was a little bit of a downer because it told us that the surgery wasn't 100% effective this time around. Please keep praying for the healing of Barrett's eyes!
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Sorry to hear that the surgery results weren't best case scenario. We will pray for you guys. I know that God has blessed Barrett with awesome parents who will give him the best chance for a complete healing!
What a strong young man! Not complaining and trying to get the patch off his strong eye, but playing basketball and making the best of what he has! Big bear hug for Barrett! And two for his mom and dad. Keep the faith....God has a plan.
Still praying for complete restoration of sight!
God is AWESOME and NOTHING is impossible through HIM. We will keep praying for our sweet Barrett.
Hope that another surgery is not needed. I can tell you that it can take a while for the eyes to adjust to what they are going to be long-term. Todd had eye surgery in October and he is going back next month for a recheck. Not even sure if that will be the final result or not. Keeping you in our prayers.
We will continue to pray for complete healing of Barretts eyesight and for full visison in both eyes. We love you so much and know that God will not give you more than you can handle!
We will be praying. Hope everything turns out okay. Your snow pictures were cute!! :)
So, not the perfect post-op appointment, but we'll still be praying for the perfect restoration of sight in the end!
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