Lissie Gets Glasses

Yesterday, we took Lissie to a children's eye physician because her eyes frequently cross when she is eating or looking at something close up. We were expecting to have a quick appointment with a final result of "don't worry about it, she'll outgrow it." That is far from what happened. First, they had to dilate her eyes and we had to wait over half an hour for it to take full effect. After that, we got to see the doctor and the news, quite frankly wasn't good. The doctor was very intelligent but not very family friendly. She used lots of medical terms with very little explanation. The only thing that I took from it was MRI!!! My baby might need an MRI?!?!? This of course, freaked me out so I let the doctor know how concerned I was and she explained a little better that Lissie might have a condition called 6th Nerve Palsy because her left eye won't move outward. More than likely though its from a tightened muscle so they put a patch on Lissie's right eye to force the left to work. She wore it for two hours and afterwards she did show improvement. This still didn't rule out the Palsy though so now she has to have glasses and also do a 24hour patch test before going in again on the 24th. This 6th Nerve Palsy is a very scary diagnosis as the nerve is attached to her brain. The MRI would be necessary to determine a cause and also to see if other nerves might be involved. We are desperately praying that this is not what Lissie has. The other option is called Esotropia which basically means that she goes cross eyed in an attempt to focus better. This would be fixed by glasses and possibly surgery. In the beginning my worst case scenario was that my baby would have to wear glasses, now that is my best case scenario! Please pray for my little Lissie that God would heal her quickly and that all she needs is glasses.

Here we are waiting to get Lissie's first pair of glasses. Poor baby isn't even 16 months old yet!

She is definitely the most adorable little angel in glasses I've ever seen!!!