Today M had another appointment with the surgeon at the Children's Hospital. He is still seeing her at regular intervals to monitor her recovery from surgery, eye pressures, and patching.
The appointment today was positive. There are no issues or worries at this point. Patching is to continue full days except the hour before bed. It seems as if this will continue for a long time. Today when I removed her patch at the doctor's, the optometrist assistant said that she immediately started using her non-cataract eye (the one that had been patched). This is not what is wanted. They are watching for when M will not immediately switch to her non-cataract eye when given the opportunity. Eventually, it is thought that when a patch is removed she will not immediately switch to only using that eye, instead she will continue to use her cataract eye for a few seconds before switching.
M has an appointment at the surgeon's office again in 4 weeks and he said that he will not be seeing her at that appointment. He will see her at the 4 week appointment after that. He said the main reason to see him at these appointments is so that he can monitor for pressures and work to get the contact fitting right. Considering that the contact is now fitting really well, and pressures have remained ok to this point, he will need to see M less frequently. Which is all good news. It just all means we have to keep plugging along on the patching train.
M then went to the optometrist's office. We went to show the optometrist the current contact that is in M's eye. He agrees that this contact is the best so far, and that it does fit well for her at this point. We will see him if any issues arise, or again probably after the 4 week appointment at the surgeon's office.
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