Matts Eye

When Matt was born it took him almost a week to open his right eye. He would open it a little but it was never fully open like his left eye. We always called him our "Right eye Jack" as a joke among us. As he got older we went to a kids eye Dr in Spokane because his eye was always droopy and noticeable. You could see it in pictures and you could tell just by looking at him. We saw his eye Dr every 6 months to keep an eye on the progress. It seemed to be getting better as time went on and was only worse when he was really tired. But the last time he went it seemed to actually be getting worse. The droop was noticeable all the time now. It was more droopy then his normal and just didn't seem to be improving with his age at all. She wanted to see us in 4 months instead of our normal 6. Well Matt went in on Monday and his eye is worse. His droopiness has now go into his line of vision. Since he is having trouble seeing his eye has now turned into a lazy eye and his brain is starting to slowly not use that eye. We have to go and see them again in two months. In those two months we have to patch his eye for 1.5 hrs everyday. Everyday i have to put this eye patch over his eye that is a hastle to try and put it on. Once its on he'll only cry here and there and doesn't seem to mind it that much. You could tell his has a problem with his vision in his droopy eye because the first day he had the patch on he was bumping into stuff all day. It wasn't so bad and he was really exited to finally take it off. I'm glad that he hasn't tried to take it off yet. Once he does it will be bad news bears....until then.

So when we go back in two months we are crossing our fingers and praying that it works. That same day after our appointment we meet with a plastic surgeon for his eye to lift it. I'm really hoping that the patch works!! I don't want to put him under again. He had a really hard time coming out of it and both times he had breathing problems and we had to stay overnight both times. It wasn't fun and it was horrible to see your child's O2 dip down into the 60 and 70's. After the anesthesia wore off he was totally fine and his O2 stats were great. I would just rather not go through all that again. She said that we can all go over that the next time we come in.