We decided to take Jake to a local eye dr. just to make sure he was doing okay since our last meeting with the eye dr who is part of the craniofacial team. the original diagnosis was that Jake has strabismus (lazy eye) in his left eye but controls it pretty well. The Dr. felt that Jake doesn't need surgery on his eye now as they will have to move and reconstruct the orbital sockets and eyes in his midface surgery down the road. The other dr. takes on a different viewpoint and feels Jake should have surgery to fix it now. We are going to meet with the original dr. to assess which opinion is correct and best course of action for Jake.
Jake is now wearing an eyepatch over his right eye to strengthen the weaker eye and will be getting glasses as he is farsighted. Jake doesn't like the eyepatch but with each day has gotten better accepting that he has to wear it. In order to help with the process, we called on an old friend to make Jake feel good about his new situation.
