3 hour tour

Yesterday was Megan's follow up visit with the eye doctor. Her eye is still turning in (it didn't correct itself in the past 4 months) so the doctor prescribed glasses for her.

Her eye is turning in when she focuses on something so the glasses will take away her need to strain to focus and therefore should keep her eye from turning in. Her condition is caused by having a short eye, which is very common in little children. He said that as she grows her eye can lengthen and therefore alleviate the issue.

We got her fitted after the appointment and it will be fun getting her to leave them on.

The timing of the appointment was very bad since we now live 45 minutes from the office so we ended up having to wake Megan up from her nap to get her there on time. Her normal snack time window was during the trip to the office, so we gave her cheerios while we were waiting to see the doctor and then while we were waiting for her glasses fitting. Megan did amazing. She sat in Will's lap the entire 1.5 hours and played and ate her cheerios.

The only time we had any "issues" was when the doctor came into the room and had Will move from the "guest" chair in the room into the exam chair.

At her last visit (when I was by myself) he dilated her eyes - she wasn't fond of getting the drops and THEN 2 of us (myself and a nurse) held her (I held her down, the nurse held her head) and the doctor held her eye open and repeatedly looked into it with different lenses, etc. She screamed and screamed and screamed. It was truly horrible - thus why I told Will that I would NOT be returning to his office by myself.

So when Will moved to the exam chair with her she immediately started crying. This child remembers the visit from 4 months ago. The doctor held up a toy to get her to look at it so he could look in her eye (same one he used last time) and as soon as she saw it she dropped her head down so he couldn't see her face. She wouldn't stop crying and looking away from him. He was only able to look at her eyes for a few seconds. I finally took her from Will, once he had given up, and with me standing and holding her she was fine. I gave him her bag of cheerios and she looked at the bag while he moved it around so he could see what was happening.

Will eventually took Megan back and was standing next to the doctor and every time he would even look at her she would fuss. He had to go sit in the "guest" chair again and give her cheerios. Even then when the doctor leaned in her direction she fussed. Sad that she was upset, but hysterical that she remembers him and didn't want him near her.