M had an appointment recently and she managed to identify 4 out of the 9 pictures. She identifies the duck, tractor, house, and puppy (really a teddy bear). This gets her onto the chart, and gives staff a baseline for her vision numbers.
At our last visit M's eye had changed shaped considerably, and there was concern it could be because of glaucoma development. She had her eye dialated, and closely examined (she sat motionless for probably 20 minutes) with numerous lights, and tools. Turns out her eye had physically grown, nothing as a result of glaucoma, and therefore needed a new contact. The new contact we have is a stronger magnification at this point, and suits her eye shape at this time better than the old one had.
Since she has been wearing this new contact she has appeared more engaged with 'seeing'. She has been colouring with her eye super close the paper, reading and looking at books up close, and looking at people closely. They seem happy with this, she's engaging in her vision more with this new contact (like she had with the other contact months ago) and hopefully keeping her brain busy at developing better vision!
