What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[ninjainspandex]

Frown: Eldest needs eye surgery or she might lose vision in one eye. Makes me nervous to have a 3 year old going under general anesthetics.

might I ask what for? my father is actually a retinal surgeon.

[Stark]

Frown: Eldest needs eye surgery or she might lose vision in one eye. Makes me nervous to have a 3 year old going under general anesthetics.

might I ask what for? my father is actually a retinal surgeon.

I'm not, so bear with my hopefully accurate explanation. Her eyes cross, because her brain thinks that it needs to, to overcome a weakness in the muscles of her right eye. They were thinking that eyeglasses would help with the crossing and it did for a while. Now basically it happens all the time and the doc said if we don't do the surgery, her brain will just stop using the weaker eye. The surgery is to loosen the muscle on the weak eye, so it can't cross.

[MrPopo]

Frown: Eldest needs eye surgery or she might lose vision in one eye. Makes me nervous to have a 3 year old going under general anesthetics.

might I ask what for? my father is actually a retinal surgeon.

I'm not, so bear with my hopefully accurate explanation. Her eyes cross, because her brain thinks that it needs to, to overcome a weakness in the muscles of her right eye. They were thinking that eyeglasses would help with the crossing and it did for a while. Now basically it happens all the time and the doc said if we don't do the surgery, her brain will just stop using the weaker eye. The surgery is to loosen the muscle on the weak eye, so it can't cross.

That sounds similar to my sister. Her left eye has really terrible vision and is also a lazy eye that drifts outward. The vision in her left eye is 6" at best without corrective lenses. Growing up she had to keep her good eye patched for long periods of the day while wearing a corrective lens over her left eye so that her brain would keep using it; if she didn't her brain would shut off the left eye entirely. But her left eye still tends to drift off to the side somewhat, but it doesn't seem to affect her binocular vision and she can pass the eye exam for driving. I'd be curious if something similar would work for your daughter (though you wouldn't need the glasses if her right eye can focus fine, just not swivel well).

[ninjainspandex]

Yeah I don't think that's the type of surgery my dad does but I'm sure your daughter will be just fine and I'm sure she is in great hands and surgery is safer than it ever was, But If you want I could ask dad if he recommends anyone out in the northwest.
I actually had a lazy eye when i was little and fortunately it was caught just in time at around age 3 or 4 doctor said it would be unlikely I would wear my patch on my good eye when my bad eye was like 20/400 but I did and though that eye is a bit weaker and I have to shoot a rifle left handed it compensate the vision is now 20/25.

[SpaceBooger]

Frown: Eldest needs eye surgery or she might lose vision in one eye. Makes me nervous to have a 3 year old going under general anesthetics.

might I ask what for? my father is actually a retinal surgeon.

I'm not, so bear with my hopefully accurate explanation. Her eyes cross, because her brain thinks that it needs to, to overcome a weakness in the muscles of her right eye. They were thinking that eyeglasses would help with the crossing and it did for a while. Now basically it happens all the time and the doc said if we don't do the surgery, her brain will just stop using the weaker eye. The surgery is to loosen the muscle on the weak eye, so it can't cross.

My oldest son Calvin had this same surgery at 6 months old.

I was also scared, but in the end it all worked for the better. His eyes still cross when he is not wearing his glasses, which rarely ever happens, and he wears his "Pirate" patch for 2 hours a day.

I hope these pics of before and after for Cal, make you feel a little better.

Before the surgery:

The surgery worked wonders - he started reading 2 days afterwards:

Here he is on the first day of school this year. With his glasses on his eye does not cross:

My wife just walked by and saw the pics I was uploading and said "it really is harder on the parents than the kid."

[Stark]

Hey guys, thanks for the well wishes for Charlotte. This does make me feel better realizing so,e of you have experienced the same things. We do have her wearing an eye patch four hours a day in prep for the surgery. Also, I don't think her eye is as bad as your son, so that make me think that if he can recover so can she! Her surgery is the 24th of May, I'll keep everyone up-to-date.

[jinx]

Changed my avatar to a Dreamcast controller in my work's chat, and got flooded with IMs about how my co-workers loved the Dreamcast, and several of them had just pulled out their consoles last week due to a discussion in one of our chat-rooms. Nobody really talks to me, so that kinda made my day.


Car is out of the shop until next month. Still needs more work, but I'm out of money and my body is killing me from that bike ride. I think I'm going to designate a "biking day" where I bike to work.


In some serious pain, and my head is killing me (again).

[BoneSnapDeez]

Changed my avatar to a Dreamcast controller in my work's chat, and got flooded with IMs about how my co-workers loved the Dreamcast, and several of them had just pulled out their consoles last week due to a discussion in one of our chat-rooms. Nobody really talks to me, so that kinda made my day.

The other week I told one of my cute co-workers that I had an Atari 2600. She said "Wow you're even cooler than I thought you were!" Pretty sure I blushed.

[jinx]

The other week I told one of my cute co-workers that I had an Atari 2600. She said "Wow you're even cooler than I thought you were!" Pretty sure I blushed.

Beats my experience, considering everybody who messaged me was your typical Linux Admin.
We need more females in this field... Maybe some of these guys would stop being such slobs and farting at work. I'm so sick of cleaning up doughnut powder and smelling the stench of unbathed, gassy, nerds all night...

This guy next to me has probably passed gas at least ten times tonight. A couple times he wasn't even trying to hide it.

[Luke]

Smile: Watched some movies and worked on a puzzle last night with my wife and a dear friend.

Frown: Dear friend is going through a break up with another dear friend of mine. Calling off the wedding break-up, and smart phones aren't helping. They're in the moving out stage of the break up, and every time she received a text about "where is my so and so?" she would burst into tears. They're both hurting, a lot, and it sucks, a lot.

Luckily my friends are mature enough to know that I'm not picking sides, and I plan on remaining close friends with both parties.

Super Giddy Smile: Going to see Iron Man 3 this afternoon, and I'm not bringing my notepad. No review, no notes, no jotting down of logistics and demographics, just me and a full flask of scotch.