Cleveland Clinic Update

Feeling right at home and doing some light reading before getting called back...

Perfect example of how Hudson squints to better see something...he's looking for the goldfish he named Garfield

Garfield

Today was Hudson's follow up with the surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic since his visit in January. At that time the doctor wanted to hold off until Hudson was a little bit older before doing the surgery. Over the past few months we've noticed Hudson's drifting getting worse and for longer periods of time. During this time he has also started expressing his feeling on the matter. Many times he will rub his eye and say "my eye hurts. fix it please". When in the sun, he will squint his eye and say "the sun hurts my eye". We also noticed that he will sometimes close one eye when pointing, watching TV, or looking at books. I expressed my concerns to the nurse today before we saw the doctor and she did a couple tests (such as shining light into his eyes, asking him to point to things, and asking him the typical letters on the chart questions). One test involved him wearing 3D glasses and pointing to any movement that he saw. Although he was able to sense the movement in January, he wasn't able to today. As soon as the doctor walked in and looked at Hudson he said right away that it has gotten worse. The doctor said he considered his condition intermittent in January and didn't want to jump into surgery; however, today he felt that it was constantly drifting and at a more severe degree. He decided that surgery is necessary and now before it worsens and does any harm to his vision. Surgery is scheduled for Monday July 18th. It is an outpatient procedure with minimal pain, but tremendous results! We're ready to fix our boy up so that he can adjust while he's still young...and we all know that kids are tougher than us!