Arrrrr maytee

Marcus had an update appt with his opthamologist this past week. I explained to the doctor that his eye wasn't staying put even with the glasses on. She checked his prescription and his eyes and told me that there isn't a stronger prescription out there and that we should try the patch for 1-2 hours each day. He's to wear it preferably while watching tv, playing a game, or really concentrating on something. And he's to wear his glasses over it. (FYI, the patch goes on his good eye to make the weaker one work and strengthen up).

Well, we're on day three of this, and Marcus really is NOT impressed with having to wear what he thinks is a sticker on his eye. He'd rather hold the "sticker" in his hand or put it on his arm. I'm still convincing him that it's for his eye and to please leave it alone.

We're going to try this out for about 8 weeks. We go back to the doc in the beginning of January to see how his eye is doing. If it's better, then awesome. Keep up the good work (and I'm not sure what else--if we keep doing the patch or what). If his eye is not improving, then we move onto doing the surgery (which, thanks to friends who have shared their stories with this, doesn't scare me anymore. In fact, I wish we could just skip the glasses/patch thingy and just do the surgery, but I was told by the doc that we really have to try these methods first. Darn.).

Here's a couple pics of Marcus on his first day. These are samples of the kind which I ordered--hypoallergenic ones that don't rip off the skin when you try to take them off. And they come with about 5 different designs which Marcus loves (sports, spaceships, camoflauge, ect).