Refractionless

I don’t think that’s a word, “refractionless”, but I don’t particularly feel like being a slave to the English language right now, so I’m using it.  Today we took my daughter for a follow-up visit to see how things were going after the surgery.  You might remember from last week my daughter being completely unwilling to open her eyes, even with four of us holding her down, just so the doctor could get a quick look in to ensure there was nothing amiss after surgery.

I’d talked to my daughter about today, telling her she was going to look into a little machine that would have a red light to stare at and we were hoping she could do it so we could get her more accurate glasses.  She seemed happy to be going to the eye doctor, but for some reason when Dr. Grace came in, she suddenly got shy.  

There was some whining, a lot of wanting to hide her face and touch her eyes and mostly not a lot of looking so the doctor could see.   She wasn’t able to get an accurate pressure on either eye which she was hoping to do because she’d added Healon to both eyes to increase their pressure.   She touched them with her fingers on her closed lid and said they didn’t feel that firm, but she was probably okay.

If you want to do the test she did on your own eye, it’s easy and safe to do.  Just close your eyelid and gently press on your eyeball with your finger.   It should feel like a very firm, crisp grape.    That’s because the pressure in your eyes is normal.   The pressure is holding up the internal structures of your eye.   Eyes need some pressure.   Too much pressure can cause damage to the eye as well, as many people with Glaucoma well know.    My daughter’s eyes don’t feel like a firm grape, they feel like an old grape that’s gone a bit soft after being left in the back of the refrigerator for too long.   That’s what low pressure feels like.

There was also the refraction we were hoping to get.   Dr. Grace was able to get enough of a look at her eyes to not have any concerns, but she couldn’t get a steady enough look to get an idea what prescription she actually has for her eyes.

We’re coming back in two weeks and hope to try again.

The Big Boy Update:  My son told his teacher he wanted to invent a time machine.   She asked him where he would go on his first trip?   He said without hesitation, “1977, so I can see dad as a baby.”

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  Can my daughter see faces?   I can’t really tell yet.   There is a lot of her vision that’s still a mystery.   I would love it if she could see what we look like.