Second Opinion

Today was day 2 of the new realization, i did not know what to expect. That would soon be revealed to me. We did not want to change our daughters Saturday routine so ballet was continued on as normal, my wife continued to do research and look up doctors for the second opinion.

I was with my daughter and kept thinking that I could not see anything wrong with her, her eyes looked fine to me, her head was not tilted as i have learned now is one of the signs, she could see things clearly in my opinion and i did not or could not imagine what would have caused this.

Ballet went off fine and i just kept looking at my daughter and seeing everything fine. We did our walk home and I had spoken to my wife a little earlier regarding a second doctor who she had found. A specialist in the city who would see our daughter today. So we walked home and enjoyed the walk back very slowly. We even watched some high schoolers practice softball.

Needless to say when got home we had half an hour to get to the appointment. I misunderstood the time she said or I was enjoying the walk with my girl. It was important and very reflective for me to think about what we would be dealing with and how we would cope with it. I just let my thoughts get the best of me and was no t thinking straight.

We sped to the doctors office and made it in the nick of time, literally like within a minute. I let my wife and daughter out and drove to the garage with my other daughter napping to park the car. Grabbed my daughter and went to the office.

Went i walked in, it was a strange feeling that ran over me, wasn't bad or good, just different. Didnt know what to think. My wife had already been there and was set up in the exam room with my oldest. They had started doing some exams, and from the looks of things, the look on my wifes face was so much more relieved from the day before.

This doctor right off the bat was showing his differences. The guy was Stew Leonards to the C Town guy i went to before, the 1969 ford mustang boss 428 mustang to the honda civic. The doctor was doing as many tests as he could, and took almost an hour with testing and explanation and just steam rolled over this guy as to what needed to be done. He was great with the kids as you could see, he had kid themed testing devices and was giving out the information to us that was clear and concise compared to the other doctors advice. He stated what we needed to do, he said she wouldn't lose her eye and at worse case scenario she would need glasses all her life. This was a major difference compared to her eye falling out.

SHe had Amblyopia but it was still within curing range. We would have to do exercises with her for 4 hours a day, with a patch over her good eye to make the other guy work, basically making the lazy guy catch up and pick up the slack that the good eye had been carrying all this time. It was a major relief and we were THRILLED to hear the great news. He gave us a regimine and glasses prescription and we proceeded to go pick put her glasses. It was a major step in doing what needed to be done. We would discuss the time and scheduling later we said, we would have to deal with that together. Right now we would go pick out glasses, thats the first step.