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Friday, November 21, 2008

Caleb's Eye Appointment

Today was the big day indeed!  Wow!  God is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
First of all, the drive didn't take as long as anticipated (and no, Jeremy didn't
speed. :) ) And our car held up! ha ha! The facility was amazing and yes we
were there 3 hours and hardly any of that time was spent waiting. Most of it was
spent with Caleb playing "eye games" as the nurse liked to call them. They did that
for like 45 minutes at least! It was so great that they would take that much time
with him! Then we saw the doctor and she repeated some of the same "games" to see
for herself how he was doing. Then the eye drops came, the one part Caleb
freaked out at. And after his eyes were dialated, more examining. And the
amazing part is, both the nurse and the doctor got Caleb's eyes to check out as
20/25 vision!!!!!!!!!! :D As a matter of a fact, all along his left eye has been
the lazy one
and the one lacking in vision. Well, not any more!!!! His left eye
actually passed up his right eye! The doctor said that was normal though. But how
relieved we were to hear that his left eye actually has good vision.
The real issue is his muscles in the left eye are pulling too tight, forcing his
eye to turn inward and looked crossed. So, the surgery talk came up. But the
doctor explained EVERYTHING and Jeremy and I both were like, "hm...doesn't sound so
bad after all." So, the doctor said no rush on surgery. Within the next year. Come
back for 2 more appointments and we'll see if it's getting better. Then we'll talk
surgery seriously. So, pray the muscles get stronger and loosen up a little so we
won't need the surgery, but God's will. If we do surgery we will have to go to Miami
for that. Also, his patching time got reduced from 4 hours a day to only 2! And
tears filled my eyes when he was able to read the smallest sized font of letters on
the screen!!!!! Wow, God is awesome! He certainly answered our prayers in sending
us to a doctor that is caring and willing to spend the time with Caleb. She even
gave us her e-mail address and the personal phone number of the nurse that spent so
much time with Caleb in the beginning. So cool! We were really impressed and just so
thankful to God for caring for our little man. :)

Also, I know no factual updates on Squishy, but we've finally narrowed down a first
name if we have girl. We're going with Morgan. It's actually my mom's maiden name,
so it would honor my mom's side of the family. And it's pretty! Now for a middle
name. Jeremy is liking Morgan Chloe. Maybe, just maybe....................


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