Eyes, Noses, Throats
Dec. 8th, 2003 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsFriday, my adventure started with a quick jaunt over to Omaha's pharmacist so I could pick up her medication before hurtling down to Tukwila to visit Pearl (sic-- why didn't Pearle Vision sue them into the next dimension?) Vision and see what's what with Yamaarashi-chan's vision. Her mother and she were a few minutes late showing up, but we were soon seen by the optometrist. After a few basic tests, we determined that what she has is something called intermittent extropia, or basically "eye-turn." She had been diagnosed with it early on in her life, but you can't do anything about it until the child is at least four without disrupting the normal development of vision anyway. They also did the color-blind test, which I loathe because people can actually see things in all those dots that I cannot, and it drives me nuts.
The optometrist on-site kept pushing surgery, especially this one particular surgeon, and for some reason the way she kept repeating this one referral over and over made my hackles rise. Surgeons, naturally, like to do surgery, but there's a lot to indicate that intense therapy can sometimes assist with eye-turn. Yamaarashi-chan's eye-turn has gotten worse; the doctor didn't want to do any intervention after her last check-up because she was seeing depth with both eyes quite well at her last test. The left eye would help in determining depth and then wander away; it's not doing that nearly as strongly now.
I'm reading up on a variety of options and tests, and I'd like Yamaarashi-chan to get everything possible done, but the doctor emphasized that perfect vision is unlikely for Yamaarashi-chan. We're in the window now where it's possible, but the expected outcome is primarily cosmetic; she won't look odd when looking straight at you.
Omaha and I spent most of the weekend at home. Kouryou-chan and I are both down with colds, so we spent most of the weekend trying to stay warm and hydrated and not do nothin' if we could help it. The vacuum cleaner broke again, this time there's no power going to the agitator head.
Sunday, Kouryou-chan's cold got even worse, to the extent that she wasn't hungry, was listless all the time, and when she went to bed she coughed so hard it made her throw up. That was no fun cleaning up-- we had to change the sheets, and rinse her off with her pyjamas still on in the bathtub, then strip her and wash her hair. She was miserable. We didn't get to bed until eleven, and I couldn't fall asleep for a long time after that. Kouryou-chan climed into bed with us sometime around 2:30.
Omaha and I also had a spat. It was pretty serious, the first "real" one we've had since Kouryou-chan was born, and it really freaked me out. I thought we'd put that kind of arguing behind us, but... I suppose it's better that it happened than not. Still, it's not an experience I want to repeat any time soon.
I went to work today, tired after the all-night with Kouryou-chan, but determined to kill as many bugs as I could since I finally had the hardware I needed to test the code I'd written. No such luck. Right before lunch, Omaha calls and asks me if I can come home; she'd hada seziure and seriously hurt her back, and needed me. I came hope, fed everyone, let her nap, made her a bath when she woke up, drew and painted with Kouryou-chan, then took Omaha to work. I hope she's doing okay. Kouryou-chan and I had our Monday tradition of ravioli, and now she's playing with her stuffed animals.
I really need to get some sleep.
The optometrist on-site kept pushing surgery, especially this one particular surgeon, and for some reason the way she kept repeating this one referral over and over made my hackles rise. Surgeons, naturally, like to do surgery, but there's a lot to indicate that intense therapy can sometimes assist with eye-turn. Yamaarashi-chan's eye-turn has gotten worse; the doctor didn't want to do any intervention after her last check-up because she was seeing depth with both eyes quite well at her last test. The left eye would help in determining depth and then wander away; it's not doing that nearly as strongly now.
I'm reading up on a variety of options and tests, and I'd like Yamaarashi-chan to get everything possible done, but the doctor emphasized that perfect vision is unlikely for Yamaarashi-chan. We're in the window now where it's possible, but the expected outcome is primarily cosmetic; she won't look odd when looking straight at you.
Omaha and I spent most of the weekend at home. Kouryou-chan and I are both down with colds, so we spent most of the weekend trying to stay warm and hydrated and not do nothin' if we could help it. The vacuum cleaner broke again, this time there's no power going to the agitator head.
Sunday, Kouryou-chan's cold got even worse, to the extent that she wasn't hungry, was listless all the time, and when she went to bed she coughed so hard it made her throw up. That was no fun cleaning up-- we had to change the sheets, and rinse her off with her pyjamas still on in the bathtub, then strip her and wash her hair. She was miserable. We didn't get to bed until eleven, and I couldn't fall asleep for a long time after that. Kouryou-chan climed into bed with us sometime around 2:30.
Omaha and I also had a spat. It was pretty serious, the first "real" one we've had since Kouryou-chan was born, and it really freaked me out. I thought we'd put that kind of arguing behind us, but... I suppose it's better that it happened than not. Still, it's not an experience I want to repeat any time soon.
I went to work today, tired after the all-night with Kouryou-chan, but determined to kill as many bugs as I could since I finally had the hardware I needed to test the code I'd written. No such luck. Right before lunch, Omaha calls and asks me if I can come home; she'd hada seziure and seriously hurt her back, and needed me. I came hope, fed everyone, let her nap, made her a bath when she woke up, drew and painted with Kouryou-chan, then took Omaha to work. I hope she's doing okay. Kouryou-chan and I had our Monday tradition of ravioli, and now she's playing with her stuffed animals.
I really need to get some sleep.
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Date: 2003-12-09 06:55 pm (UTC)My ex also had the problem...and no surgery. His eye *does* wander, which is very disconcerting for people at times. And yes, it is disconcerting for people when they first meet him. (And sometimes even after they know him.) I've been told mine will get worse as I get older...so far, it hasn't, but given that the vision in it is still declining (just a little bit a year, but still) it will probably happen.