Update on Liam

Liam, my eldest, had his specialist appointment yesterday with a pediatric opthamlogist (say that three times fast). He confirmed what the original optometrist had said: Liam has approximately 20% vision in his right eye.

He is guarded about the prospects of patching therapy but, willing to support my husband and I in that, if there is an opportunity to get the vision to 30 - 40% we are going to give it everything we have to get there. We are certainly not the kind of people that will go down without a fight.

So, I go tonight to have my second son tested. I do not believe there is any vision reductions in either of his eyes but time will tell. In addition, I will order the special prescriptive lens for Liam and we will start the patching therapy. While he is not currently a candidate for surgery, if we can get the neurons to respond and transmit again, he might be a candidate for surgery in the future.

Liam is pleased - they have told us that he needs to be completing near-sighted work while wearing the patch. He has been saving up for a gameboy. On the way home from the hospital, he and my husband stopped and bought one of the new gameboys that that he can play that while patched and it will be less of a hassle for us. Here's hoping that it works.