Dumplin has come so far...
When we first got him, he couldn't fix/focus on anything. He wasn't tracking. His poor little eyes would float off to the side and twitch...sometimes disappearing.
Early on, we felt that he responded to light, though. He would turn toward a window or the tv. Then, we thought we were noticing that he'd 'stare' at bold patterns. The curtains in his room are a funky fabric with geometric shapes. He seemed to stare at them. He also seemed to get fixed on a few very large photographs in the living room.
We would tell the ophthalmologist these things, but there wasn't much response. Several assistants there would take turns coming into the room, flash some blinking toys at Dumplin, and walk out. Oh how I hated their lack of 'bedside manner.'
The very first time we knew for sure that Dumplin could see, to some extent, was once as he sat in an exer-saucer. Our little dog ran past him....and his head followed. Talk about excited!!! We began to notice him following things, but there was a lag between his head turning and his eyes following. Maybe it'll just take some time....
In May, the doctor dilated his eyes and said that he's farsighted. She said we needed to patch one eye each day for an hour, then do the same the next day with the opposite eye. We tried to do this some....but, admittedly, we weren't consistent, nor was Dumplin the most compliant.
We had a follow up appointment last week. The same doctor, and crew, did the same things...making me the same amount of angry. In the end, the dr said, "I see a little change," and that we should keep doing what we were doing. Nope. I'm done here.
Our thought was that she'd already diagnosed him as farsighted...why not deal with that? We've seen babies far younger than Dumplin wearing glasses. I came home from that appointment and looked up another doctor who I'd heard great things about. We had that appointment yesterday.
The new doctor's office was night and day different than the last one. LOVED it. The doctor was nice and did a much better job of explaining his thoughts on Dumplin. He agreed with the farsightedness diagnosis and prescribed glasses. We left there happy. Maybe THIS will make a difference for Dumplin!
I was able to find a doctor's office, that day, who would accept Dumplin's insurance and order his glasses. Can't wait to see how this changes things!
