Some of you might be interested in the my eye appointment so I've decided to put it into the blog instead of retelling it multiple times. Feel free to skip over if you're not interested.
One challenge, when fulltime RVing, can be following up on specialized medical problems. It's pediatric ophthalmologists who treat the adult strabismus that I have and, typically, it takes more than a month to get an appointment with one. I had surgery, in Maryland, on my strabismus 9 months ago. Yesterday, I had a follow-up appointment with a doctor, here in Houston, at Childrens Hospital because my eyes seemed worse than when last seen, six months ago.
The net of the visit is that my eyes started, before the surgery, pointed OUTwards by 12 diopters and the unexpected outcome of the surgery is that they are now pointed 8 diopters INward. I knew that they hadn't healed straight because I still had double vision when not using the prisims in my glasses but I hadn't expected it was that much.
The good news is that I now have a new eyeglass prescription with prisms to correct my vision. The bad news is that we came to Houston 10 days early so that would give time for me to get the glasses before we leave but now I learned it will take 2 or 3 weeks to get the new glasses. Fortunately, they can be mailed to me.
The ongoing treatment plan for the strabismus is that, once I have the glasses with the correct vision, that I will, gradually, start to use a 1 diopter stick-on prism to weaken the correction in the glasses so that my muscles will strengthen to pull the eyes out and then proceed to 2 diopters, etc. The goal is that when I have my next follow-up visit, in 6-12 months, that my eyes will not drifting more inward and, maybe even, will be better aligned.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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