AaRRrrr...We're pirates!

We took Landon to go see Dr. Troia for a check up.  The last time we saw him Landon's vision was slowly improving.  If you need a refresher, click here.

Landon has had his new glasses for the past few months, so I was excited to see if there had been some change.  At our last visit, Dr. Troia also increased the perscription of the lens in his left eye, so I was hoping that his vision had improved.

When Dr. Troia tests Landon's eye sight, he brings out a toy for Landon to focus on and watches his eye movement as he covers one of his eyes.  Landon always does great with his right eye, but he always tries to pull away when his left is covered.  This time he didn't even flinch!!!  Dr. Troia was impressed and said it's the best he's seen him do in a long time.  He said that we still need to put drops in his right eye for a little longer (to make his vision fuzzy and strengthen his left eye), but if his vision improved the next time we come in we could talk about not having to do those any more!!  YEA!!  He also mentioned to us about Landon's eye patch.  We were told a long time ago to do a patch with Landon, if he would allow.  We tried for a little while, but whenever we put it on him, he would just pull his glasses off.  So, in an effort to get Landon to leave his glasses on but still get what we want, Dr. Troia gave us the eye drops to make his vision blurry. We've been doing that ever since.  We told Dr. Troia that we would give the patch another go and see what happened.

It came to me when we got home that we could try and have Landon wear it while he's doing something that he loves, so he's not even thinking about it.  ...Blue's Clues!  Landon has been obsessed with watching Blue's Clues lately.  So we made a rule.  Whenever Landon watches Blue's Clues he has to wear his eye patch.  Much to my surprise, it WORKED!!!!  Landon watches Blue with his patch on with no complaints.  The first day we tried it, he wore it for 6 hours straight!!!  I'd say half of that time he wasn't even watching the show, he was playing like normal.  It was so great!

I'm so proud of my little pirate.  I'm also glad we found a solution to our problem.  It will be exciting to see what Dr. Troia says at our next appointment!!!