A Good Report

At a year old, Kalyn was diagnosed with an eye disorder called exotropia, which meant that her eyes drifted away from what she was trying to focus on (it's similar to lazy eye). In December of 2004, she had double eye surgery to strengthen the muscles in her eyes. Since then, we've seen very, very little of the drifting, which is a huge praise. Every six months, we visit the eye doctor to make sure that everything is developing smoothly and we aren't having a recurrence of the exotropia (30% of the people who have the eye surgery need a second).

Today was her checkup. I loaded up Kalyn and Xander, brought along their breakfast to eat in the car and sat in traffic. I knew there was a reason that even when I did work, I did not work in Atlanta. It took about 20 minutes to get to the main toll road that takes us to Atlanta to her eye doctor - we're less than 5 miles from it!! But, we calmly sat in traffic, watching the time tick away until our appointment.

I have to give kudos to Thomas Pediatric Eye Care - We checked in at 9:08 (3 minutes late for our appointment) and were leaving the office at 9:38. That's impressive. In fact, we didn't even have time to take the picture of her in the eye examination chair until it was time for us to leave.

We met with an eye muscle specialist first and then the doctor who performed her eye surgery, Dr. Lipsky. Both were very thorough. The first one thought she could see a little bit of drifting - but only when Kalyn was trying to focus on something far away and she put her hand in front of one eye (in other words, she could manipulate the situation to create the drifting). However, Kalyn was very quick to blink her eyes and bring both right into focus. Dr. Lipsky said that her eye sight was perfect and didn't see any problems. Either way, both are very good reports. It's just something that we'll have to watch to see if we can notice any regression as we're with her every day.