The following Wednesday we went back to have the contact lens put into his eye. Out came the eye speculum again and it was horrible, William cried and cried as Dr Maslin was putting in the lens (the Drs aren't exactly gentle!). All I could think was that Dr Maslin was going to do further damage to the eye when the speculum was inserted into it, I'd hate to have that thing put in my eye. Once the contact was in they did a focus test and decided he needed a new contact lens to make him focus a little closer. I thought it was a positive that at least William was focussing. They told us we were to patch William for 2 hours a day and take out the lens once a week and clean it and they’d see us in 3 weeks with the new contact lens. The one thing I have found is that we haven't been given much information about anything, i.e. how to clean a contact lens, how to take it out, how to put it in, and is there anything we need to look out for. I know William now has a higher chance of getting glaucoma than someone without an operated eye so it would be good to know any warning signs.
I have met another lady in the waiting room who has a baby who had a similar surgery (a cataract removed) to William's, though that baby doesn't have PHPV or a Microphthalmic Eye. He is 2 months older than William and its nice to have another mother to talk to about this whole situation.
Once we started patching William didn’t seem to mind the patch but also didn’t smile at us or respond to much but after a couple of weeks we really did see some improvement! He really looked like he was focussing and following movements and when we came up close he blinked!
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