It takes a lot of energy to fix a lazy eye!

Charlie started her Vision Therapy last week for her exotropia.
She has to do her excercises 5 nights a week for 30-40 minutes for it's looking like 18 months or so.
It was fascinating, though. We learned that she's suppressing (suppressing the vision from one eye) way more often than we realized.
Caught it on film recently

It's hard to take a picture of because she has the ability to refocus it when she knows she's doing it. So if I draw her attention to taking a picture she focuses on the camera and it goes away. The vision therapy is teaching her to control it all the time. Her brain shuts the signal off to that eye so that she won't see double. As her doctor explained, though, you don't want your brain shutting off one of your eyes. You want sight from both.
So hopefully she's successful at this.
I feel for her. It's a big time committment, she misses school, and it's hard. She complains of her eyes hurting afterward.

So what's new with Elly today?
I don't know either. She walked up to me with her hands behind her back, looked up at me with big blue eyes and said "I not doing anyfing."
Rrriiiight. Now I have to do a scan of the whole house to find out what she's "not doing".

Comments

[JQ]

Go Char, go.

[Mary]

Sounds like homework, lots and lots of homework. It sucks but she'll be better for it.

[Vincent Davis]

Wow, Sara...(applauds) I commend you for the devotion you give to Elly! I can't fathom the love you have given her, being the single that I am. I know how it feels to take care of someone who has that kind of condition. My brother Jemuel never had a chance to have treatment because we grew up in a poor family. Until now, he's at my house, and I take care of him. I can't help but let tears fall down while I'm typing this.