About 10 days ago Fin's "good" eye started to turn in. At first I thought it was my own eyes playing a trick on me. After all, the purpose of patching her good eye was to help retrain and rebuild the muscles in her bad eye, not cause more issues.
When she wears her glasses, which is most of the time, her eyes are perfectly aligned. They don't turn in, out, up, just straight ahead like they're supposed to. But when they're off, that's when her eyes start to drift inward. It's not all the time and happens more at night.
I
left a message for Dr. G on Friday and she called me back today. As soon as I saw it was her on caller id, I was already bracing myself for bad news. I even reached for my calendar figuring she'd want us to come in right away. Imagine my surprise when she told me this was actually a good thing, and nothing at all to be concerned about.
Huh? *Insert studdering and incomplete sentences starting and ending with "but".*
I
must have sounded like a crazy person. But yet she was perfectly sweet
and, since I didn't get it the first time, explained to me a second time how and why the patching works. Essentially ... (and these are my words not hers, since hers were much more eloquent and included medical terminology that doesn't even exist in my computer's spell check) ... her bad eye will keep
getting better, her good eye will keep getting worse, and eventually
they'll stop compensating for each other and just work together.
She does want us to cut back on
the patching, since her bad eye is gaining strength faster than
expected. Woot! Instead of every day for two hours, every other day
for one hour. She still has to wear her glasses, and probably always
will, but we're ok with that.
Even
though she's only had her glasses for 2 months, it's like
she was meant to wear them. It might sound odd, but she looks more like herself with her glasses on than with them off. They're a part of
her, a part of her personality, a part of how we identify with her.
Not that she isn't just as cute without them, but come on, who can
resist the pink pearl frames?
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