=hailey update=

Hailey had her eye appointment on Friday to check up on her glasses and how she is doing. The glasses are correcting MOST of the turn in, however there is still a slight turn in with the glasses on. Because of this, she is going to need the surgery. In addition to this news…we have more. Not necessarily good either. We covered her right eye (her good eye) and asked her to point to certain pictures. When she would point, she pointed about ¾ of an inch to the right and slightly up. That means, the light is shining to the wrong part of the eye inside. The doctor said it’s hard to fix, but that it’s possible and that we need to start working on it now. It becomes harder to fix the older she gets. So, eye patch, here we come. I bought a pretty pink patch with a butterfly on it that slides over her glasses. She has to be patched for 2 hours a day, can be broken up, and during that time, we have to do “projects”. Ie: putting a cup over a tube, putting beads on a stick, etc. Hopefully this will train her eye. She has to get checked out again in 4 weeks, max. In the mean time, the eye doctor is going to be calling another specialist to see if there’s any other suggestions that they may have. Until we fix this, or try to at least, she’ll have to wait for the surgery.

Hailey has done some work with the eye patch since Friday. Not 2 hours a day, but close. We want to gradually work her up to that over the course of a few days. Saturday she started at 45 min, then went up to an hour and 15 min. Last night she had it on for an hour and a half. Tonight, we'll try 2 hours. She gets really frustrated with it on, but she leaves it on, which is good. When she gets frustrated, she says she can't do it and can't see, etc. It's really hard for me to hear and see her struggling like that, tears come to my eyes every time. I just have to keep in mind, it will (hopefully) help her eye. So, everyone say a little prayer that this corrects itself.

On the upside, I had a great Mothers day, Pandora isn't blocked today at work and neither is the blogsite. :) I can actually log in and blog today!!! Yay!

Mother's day was great. Woke up, showered, and was out of the house by 11 am. We went down to the Farmers Market downtown, checked out the boats and hit the brunch at Bud Bay Cafe. It was delicious! After that, we came home and all took naps....for 2 hours. ha ha, it was great. We ate dinner together, went to kohls and target in search of my Dirt Devil Curve. BUT!!! They didn't have them anywhere. Ugh. Hopefully we can find one somewhere. I've wanted one for a LONG TIME! ha ha.