So I am sort of freaking out!! Kaitlyn had her preschool screening a few weeks ago and that included an eye exam. Well I had gotten a letter in the mail saying that she failed her eye exam and needed to be seen by an actual eye doctor. So I decided to wait just a few weeks since we were going through so much with everything with her Epilepsy and a few nights ago my mother in law asked me why Kaitlyn was squinting so much and asked if it was normal. Nic and I looked at her and then looked back through a whole bunch of pictures and realized that she had been squinting for some time in the sun, while watching TV and while trying to read. So I called and scheduled her eye exam and we went today...

They did the first test where you look in the machine and it tells you their prescription. The doctor came in and said that it needed to be done again because there is no way the numbers are right. So we did it again... and yep the numbers were right but they didn't say what it showed at first. So the doctor sat down, looked at her eyes, had her do some various tests and then said that her results were of concern for her. So they dilated her eyes and while we were waiting the doctor said that her right eye was extremely farsighted and that her left eye was pretty farsighted. But since there was such an extreme amount of difference her right eye was starting to stop developing and wasn't focusing anymore (creating the "lazy eye") so they said that we will need glasses for her, she will have to wear them all of the time, and that if in 6 weeks it doesn't start to correct it's self some they will have to patch the left eye (the good eye) and try to fix the bad eye. If it doesn't work then we will have to start to discuss surgery to try and fix that problem as well as therapy...

So just as we were coming to terms with that... the doctor was looking at eyes now after fulling be dilated and started to get flustered and went and got another doctor to look at her eyes. The other doctor came in, looked at her eyes, looked again and looked again... and said that she has cataracts. So now we also have to have the surgery done to have the cataracts corrected. And the kicker to it all.. the eye doctor asked what her seizures looked like and said that maybe part of what we were seeing all along was the eye problem and not actual seizures. So we have wasted thousands of dollars (out of our pocket) and had her medicated for no reason...

Then we were talking about Christopher and they think he has the same problem too, we go back in two weeks to see for sure what his eyes show.

One more thing to add on our never ending list!