Good thoughts, please.

I'm trying to make this quick, because it's 3 am and I'd like to go to bed, but I was wondering if you all could send out some positive thoughts for Cayden tomorrow morning? I can't remember if I talked about it here or not, but a few months ago we took Cayden in for an ear infection and the doctor noticed that one of his pupils seemed to be bigger than the other. I had noticed it too before, but didn't ever thing to ask about it(I just figured one was bigger than the other and it was just how he was made.) She said that she thought it was no big deal but sent us to the eye doctor to get checked out just to be on the safe side. At first the doctor thought exactly what I thought - that one pupil just happened to be bigger for no reason (they had a name for it, I dunno what it is now, a big fancy medical name.)

Anyway, long story short, they dilated his eye and it turns out one whole eye is bigger than the other. Turns out, again, this sometimes just happens and it's not a big deal, but there are a couple things that cause her to be concerned. One, the vision on the bigger eye is a lot weaker than the one in the "normal" eye. Two, there are breaks in his cornea, which is associated with trauma to the eye (which he's never had), a forceps assisted birth (again, didn't happen), or high pressure in the eye (basically, glaucoma.) His pressure that day was fine, and she said he could have just had high pressure at one time and his body fixed it BUT that wasn't likely - she's concerned that his eye is having issues regulating pressure and we just happened to catch him on a low pressure day.



She told us he has to wear an eye patch for a few hours a day (pictured here, isn't he the cutest pirate ever? Funny story though, I was trying to be nice and wear a patch in solidarity to make him feel better. While on, it itched and itched and I was like 'man, poor kid, these suck! How can he be sitting there and not messing with his constantly?' Then I go and take mine off - turns out I'm allergic to the adhesive and end up with this awesome looking rash around my eye. So much for solidarity!)

The eye patch goes over the good eye, causing him to rely on the weak eye to hopefully make it stronger. However, we go back tomorrow to re-check his pressure and his vision. SO basically, my whole point of writing this super long 3am post is to ask that you keep him in your thoughts. I know at some point he'll be in glasses, and if that's the outcome of all this, I'm good, but I really hope he doesn't have glaucoma. I don't know a ton about it, but from what I've read it's treatable but may require surgery and I really don't want him to have to go through that.