Aaron had another ophthalmologist appointment yesterday. This was his second opinion that I talked about getting after our not so fun first doctors appointment.

This doctor’s office was much more kid-friendly. When they had to dilate Aaron’s eyes, rather than have my wife and an office tech hold him down (like the first ophthalmologist did), the office secretary, who is the doctor’s wife, sang to him and told him what was going to happen. At the first appointment, Aaron fought against having his eyes dilate because of the way it was done. After he came home, he told me how the lady and the doctor hurt his eyes. After this appointment, he didn’t say anything about any pain in his eyes.

Aside from that part of the appointment, I was put off by this doctor’s demeanor. I walked into the exam room about a minute after the doc began to explain treatment methods to Meri (according to her). As soon as I sat down, the doctor looked at me and said “I don’t have time to re-explain everything I just told your wife” and then continued where he left off.

WTF is with the pediatricians being total dickheads? Kiss my ass and take an extra minute out of your busy schedule to explain my son’s affliction because it’s kind of important to me. I know his eye isn’t hanging out of the socket or he’s not actively going blind but give me just one more minute. I’m sure my insurance will be charged like $300 or something ridiculous so quit bitching about how you can’t tell me what you just said and say it again. Hm, after reading that, I guess  bothered me a bit…

So the prognosis was good. We are doing eye exercises twice a day and wearing a patch on the stronger eye for two hours a day for the next three months. I hate to see him in the patch and he doesn’t like it but it’s better than the alternative. The idea is to make Aaron utilize the weak eye more so as to strengthen it. The eye exercises reinforce this idea as well. The doc said that Aaron had 20-20 vision despite this condition.

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