Patching it Up

 Guess who had to start wearing eye patches? We take Mia to the eye doctor every 6 months because her left eye drifts. We notice it when she's tired or stressed and it seemed to be getting worse. Her vision worsened quite a bit at her eye visit in December. The doctor said that when the eye drifts, the brain shuts off vision to that eye because it can't interpret double vision. This makes the eye even worse and some kids can lose vision to that eye.  

We patch her strong eye so the weak eye has to work. It was pretty funny the first few days we had to do it. She would tilt her head and look sideways so she could see the tv. We do it two hours a day, five days a week. It is amazing how well it works.

We took her back to the eye doctor in January and her vision improved an entire line. We have to patch her eye until her appointment in April and then start weaning her off the patch to see how her eye does.

She does pretty well at wearing the patches. She does cheat though. She'll open the patch up so she can use her strong eye to do stuff. It's quite comical watching her try and pour cereal into a bowl or play a video game. It makes me dizzy using one eye, but she's done so well! She even puts the patches on herself. I had to order some cute ones from amazon. I let her pick them out so she was a little more excited about wearing them.