Chloe in Glasses

How cute is this face? Go ahead and tell me. I love hearing it :-D

We're still working on keeping the glasses on. She doesn't rip them off but she likes to use her little fingers to slide them down and into her mouth. She lasted two hours last night so she's getting much better!

Chloe had her third post-surgery (that is, post-second cataract-surgery) follow-up today. The doctor said her eye looks good. I asked him what that meant and he said that her eye reflected the proper red color at him when he shined a light in it. I think that means they got out all of this secondary cataract. He's reassured by the fact that I'm able to successfully keep the patch over her good eye for four hours a day. This tells him that she's able to see out of the left eye enough to tolerate the patch without much argument. I agree that she can see well enough to look at her big black and white book and play with toys. I hope this is truly a good sign and not sugar-coating talk... We'll continue to patch for four hours a day in the hopes that we're forcing that eye to grow stronger.

In addition, we decided to switch from her SilSoft lens (this is a soft contact with a firmer center) to a gas permeable (hard) lens. She was fitted for that today. The guy at the vision center tells me that aphakic babies (babies who don't have a lens in their eye) are getting better vision results with gas permeables. Plus, they tend to stay in better. "And the downsides," I asked? He said there were none to speak of except that they take a little getting used to and might be uncomfortable at first. He suggested that Chloe should maybe switch to gas perm. some day and I asked, "Why not now?" No reason so we're going for it. Chloe actually lost her last soft lens on Tuesday - two days before the fitting - and I had a complete meltdown. Crying, pleading with the lens to appear, crawling around the room, snot, swearing at fact that I can't just dress my child and go, life is so unfair. You name it. I was quite the pathetic sight. If this new lens can prevent another one of those it'll be worth it! :) As the technician tried different sizes on her eye this morning he mentioned that she'd develop a callous on the inside of her eyelid. Yikes! So that's why it's uncomfortable at first... Well, we're still going for it. I hope the transition isn't too bad. It seems like it'll be worth it in the long run.