The patching continues

Darn! I keep hoping we'll show up at Duke and Whitney's eyes will be magically "all better," but this is a much slower process than I hoped.

Whitney was very excited to go to the doctor today. I wish I would've taken a picture of her. She looked SO cute today. I moved my camera to a new storage spot in the house and I don't think it's working. I need to move it back because I keep forgetting to take pictures! Anyway, you'll have to take my word for it. She loves Dr. Buckley, her Pediatric Opthalmologist. (I've been spelling that for about a year now, and I'm still not sure if that's right.) As soon as they called her name to come back, she started jumping up and down and saying, "I get to see Dr. Buckley!" It was so cute. Of course, she had to see two other people before she got to see him. And when her big moment to see him finally did come, she acted shy. Silly girl.

Well, her vision test went ok. For children her age, who are old enough to talk, but don't know the alphabet, they use black and white figures like a birthday cake, a pony, a Christmas tree, a telephone, etc, to test their eyes. They start off really big and progressively get smaller. Normally she is very cooperative and loves to tell you what she sees on the screen, but she was not really into it this time. We had to really coax her to get her to say anything at the beginning. The woman who was doing the test was really patient and good at what she does. She promised Whitney that she would "do the chicken" if Whitney could tell us what she saw. When Whitney named the object, we would both cheer and the woman would walk around like a chicken. It was so funny. (If only she knew the history of the "whole chicken!")

Her vision has improved since our last visit, in June. At that time she was 20/70 in her right eye and 20/30 in her left. This time she tested 20/50 in her right eye and 20/25 in her left. Dr. Buckley prescribed 6 more weeks of patching. (I was SO ready to be done, but here we go again.) He hopes by that time she'll be 20/40 or 20/30, which I guess is the goal. I hope so too! On the bright side, at least the patching is still working to improve her vision. I'm grateful for that.

Poor Andrew had plant meetings at work this morning. So, he left before 6 am this morning. Then he went with us up to Duke. When we got home, he went straight to Stake Welfare meeting or something like that and he still isn't home yet. (It's 9:40 pm our time.) He is going to be SO beat! Good thing I bought some ice cream on the way home. I'm sure he'll need some comfort food.