Katrina had a good week, all in all.  She went to see her Eye Doctor on Wednesday, but there isn’t a whole lot of news to tell.  As most of you know, she has Amblyopia, which is basically the scientific name for “lazy eye”.  It is her left eye that has the problem & although you wouldn’t know by looking at her, that is the reason she wears glasses.  We have also been doing “patch therapy” – placing a patch over her right eye for part of the day, to cause her left eye to focus, therefore making the vision stronger in it.  She sees a Pediatric Eye Doctor & his opinion is that, since we caught the “problem” while she was still young (she was 4 when she was diagnosed), there is a good possibility of correcting it now, so that she won’t have to deal with it, later in life.  So far, she has gone from having 20/70 vision to 20/40, which is a good change.  However, in the past couple of months, there has been little to no difference.  He was expecting her to have a big leap forward, between her last appointment & this one, but unfortunately, that just didn’t happen.  So, his best recommendation was to continue what we’re doing – having her wear her glasses during all of her waking hours & the patch for 4 hours per day.  Then, we’ll go back to see him again in April.  Hopefully, she will show some great progress by then.  If not, he wants to discuss a “plan B”, which will probably just consist of having her continue to wear glasses and/or contacts the rest of her life.  He assured us that with her vision the way it is, she could legally drive (provided she was old enough), and so it’s not all that bad.  But, any thoughts & prayers are appreciated, to help her completely overcome the Amblyopia, of course!  🙂

She also got to go on a school field trip; one that was either planned late, or the notification to parents just went out late – it seemed to be very “last minute”, but we let her go.  Her Kindergarten class went to the Aviation Learning Center at our local airport.  They got to learn about planes & about security (they walked through the metal detector), and she even brought home a couple of souvenirs.  That was on Friday, which was a big, exciting day for her also, because after school, she & her sister got to have a sleepover at their Grandma Linda’s house.  You can read more about that on our main family blog.