To Do The Surgery Or Not

The marathon doctor’s visits went well today.  Liam did so well today.

First was his eye appointment. First let me say Liam DID AMAZING with the eye doctor looking at him.  I was surprised how he never even fussed. Ok lol, about 4 months ago we started to notice Liam’s right eyelid becoming droopy.  So we brought it up with his primary doctor and she was concerned that the eyelid could start drooping over his iris which could cause some eyesight damage.  So she sent us to see an eye doctor.  Ever since he was tiny he would always look at people with his head tilted to the side and angled so he had to look out the corner of his eye (like the image to the right).  We always thought that it was him being cute.  Well come to find out he does that for a reason.  Well I’m still going to think that it’s because he’s being cute lol.  The reason why he has been doing this is his right eye is higher than his left eye. So, when he’s tilting his head and looking out the corner of his eye is to compensate for the uneven vision.  So his eyelid isn’t really droopy.  His droopy eyelid is just an illusion due to the uneven eyes.  At the moment nothing can be done about it.  Surgery can be done to fix it but Liam is too young for that.  So it’s just something we need to keep an eye on.  He goes back in 3 months to get it check out again.

Look at how crazy his eye look all dilated. 

In-between his eye doctors visit and AFO appointment he saw Dr. Albanese (his orthopedist).  That went well, not as expected but well. He had an x-ray of his hips before he saw Dr. Albanese.  So what he basically said he’s not sure if he wants to pursue surgery yet.  The way Liam’s hips are dislocated are up past his hip sockets.  His concern is that if they do the surgery both or one would basically come back out.  So it’s still up in the air.  Plus he says Liam is doing so good with getting around that he doesn’t want to slow him down.  So basically no surgery yet.  We go back in 3 months to relook at everything.