Earlier in June, I took the boys in to the pediatrician for some colds and she pointed out that Jonah had a "wandering" eye. So we took him into the pediatric ophthalmologist to get it checked out. That started us on the path to his glasses, which are super cute! Sadly, that didn't correct it. So we went on to patching his strong eye in order to strengthen the weak eye. This was not Jonah's favorite thing to do, but he was such a trooper! He did so well and actually grew to love his "pirate eye". We nicknamed it and got him some pirate goodies so he wouldn't be afraid of the whole thing. So we patched religiously for two weeks. The patching did bring vision back into his weak eye, however, it wasn't able to strengthen it enough to straighten it. So last Tuesday, my sweet little guy underwent surgery on both eyes. They weakened both interior eye muscles in order to force the brain to take over and use both eyes. He did amazingly well with the surgery. The whole process was very quick and Jonah was back to playing the same evening! So, now we just have to wait for the muscles to heal to find out if the surgery was a success.
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