After Christmas I noticed Morgan's left eye occasionally turned in. I didn't think too much of it. In fact, I first thought she was playing around seeing what it felt like to cross her eyes. I remember doing silly things like that as a kid. Her eye crossing would be a couple times a week for maybe a minute or two. Then I noticed it would be turned in for 30 min. at a time, then an hour, and so on. Morgan would tell me it felt like her eye would get stuck. She said she would see double. She always compensated well for her eye. She would close it shut and just rely just on her right eye. About a month ago I noticed her eye started crossing just about daily for many hours. I took her to the eye doctor. Her vision checked out fine, but she sent us to a pediatric ophthalmologist. When we went to the specialist he said her vision is in the "normal" range for a child her age even though she is slightly farsighted. Normally he wouldn't put a kid in glasses with her vision, but we are trying to correct her eye. The downside. We only have a 10-20% of the glasses correcting the eye. We go back to see the doctor in early April. If the glasses haven't helped, or her eye crossing gets worse, then we are looking at eye surgery. :( I am tracking what her eye does daily and writing it down for the doctor so he can see what her eye has been doing in the 6 weeks she wears glasses. He said her eye crossing isn't a vision issue but a neurological issue. It's like her brain is turning off and on some days with regard to her eye. No one really knows why this happens. He has been an eye surgeon for around 40 years and he has only seen a handful of cases where the eye is straight one day but the next day crossed, then it goes back the following day straight, then the next day crossed, and so on. We are hopeful and praying the she will not need surgery. Of course, we will do whatever we need to help correct her eye. Morgan has been amazing through all of this. In one week she had her eyes dilated twice, two eye doctor visits, and a fitting for glasses. Morgan never complained at all. In fact, she said she likes going to the eye doctor. (This is the girl who enjoys the dentist, doctor, and now eye doctor. I joke she will have a job in health care one day.) We have been impressed with Morgan's positive attitude with her new glasses. She makes comments like, "I'm so lucky to be the first kid in my preschool class with glasses." She is pretty proud showing off her new light pink glasses. I was worried picking out her glasses when we found out of the 25+ children's pairs available only 3 fit her petite face. All the others were too big. Out of the 3 pairs she loved the fact that these were "pink." Sometimes a favorite color can make things just right! :)
