Eye Day

Today was the day I had been dreading for awhile now...it was Matty's first pediatric eye appt. Since he was a preemie and had laser surgery to correct his ROP, it was suggested that we take him in for a ped eye appt at a much younger age than most kids. It was not a fun morning, to say the least. Jeremy came along to help hold the little guy down, while I stood in the corner trying to cover my ears. He screamed and screamed while the nurse held open his eyelids so that the doc could shine a light into his eyes and look at them with different lenses. He does have stigmatisms, which are pretty common I guess. They apparently have nothing to do with the fact that he was a preemie. They can either get better or worse, so we will pray that they get better before his next appt, which will be in 1 year. The worst part for him was getting the drops to dilate his eyes and also being held down, since he does NOT like to be confined. On a lighter note, we had a nice weekend. We took the little guy to Nebraska Furniture Mart to look at some things, and also to a few other stores. He got his first pair of Nikes, which he is already using to run all around the place!