about Eli's eyes...

Eli had an eye appointment this past week and it went well.

I really like our eye doctor and the nurses at his office too.  Eli was a champ, even though his visit was very long and had several steps. He had two rounds of drops and yellow dye put into his eyes, he had several exams and was quite cooperative through all of it.  It helped that they had cool videos and lots of toy trucks... Still, I was so proud of him.

Some of you may have noticed that one of his eyes at times turns outward.   He has something called strabismus, and more specifically intermittent exotropia.  You may or may not have seen this, because it happens only occasionally, usually when he's tired.

His eye doctor is having him go through some patching therapy.  This means that every day Eli will wear a (cute little colorful sticker) eye patch for two hours over his stronger eye.  This time will allow his weaker eye to do more work.  We will need to be intentional about giving him play/activities to do during these two hours that require his weaker eye to work hard.

We will go back to visit the eye doctor in two months, so that he can do another check up and see what progress Eli has made at that time and make further decisions from there.

Sooo, if you see us out and about with a little sticker patch over one of Eli's eyes, you'll know why.  At this point, he's pretty excited about it.  Thank goodness!!! :)  We've made a big deal over his cool stickers and each day we put the patch that he's finished with in his sticker book.  He's delighted to be getting a sticker every day (for now)!

Here's a link about strabismus and exotropia , if you want to read a bit about it.  

Just thought you might like to know. :)