From four eyes to one eye...

As most of you know, we have been taking Sawyer to see Dr. Sabastian Troia for a while now to figure out what to do about his eyes. His left one crosses into his nose quite a bit especially when he is tired. So, he wore glasses for six weeks to see if that would help but it didn't. We felt that it almost made it worse. Our next step was to patch his good eye so that it would allow the crossing eye to strengthen and hopefully straighten out. He has worn the patch REALLY well for the past four weeks!

His first day of wearing it to Day Care, I had this whole little speech to tell the kids about how it was helping Sawyer and not to make fun of him..yara...yara..yara....well that speech went to waste because NONE OF THE KIDS NOTICED!!! Seriously? His friends are three and four years old-They should be noticing Sawyer has a huge sticker on his face and only one eye! But nothing. It was insane! About a week later, they were sitting watching a movie and his little friend Dane just turns to Sawyer out of the blue and goes, "What's on your face?" and Sawyer said, "It's a patch." Dane replies., "Oh." And there you have it! :)

Most people that we see think that he's injured it or something so they are always asking what he did to his eye and he is very quick to tell them, "I wear this patch so that my other eye will get stronger." I think he actually enjoys wearing it a bit!

The four weeks of patching is over and no real improvement has happened so we are headed back to Dr. Troia's office today. Please pray that God would help us decide on the next best avenue to take. We are hoping that there are a few other options to try before having to do surgery, but whatever it takes, we'll do it!