7/18/13 – The Claw

Olivia had her follow up eye exam today.  To be quite honest, I was terrified of the outcome.  Junior and I got there early so we can participate in touch time before Dr. G completed his exam.  We told the nurse we wanted to talk to the doctor after the exam but did not want to see the procedure.  Touch time went by quick and she did well.  We were going to have kangaroo time but Dr. G called up and asked for her eyes to be dilated.   He came up to start the procedure and the nurse informed him we were not going to watch.  Dr. G suggested that we do watch because when she gets bigger and we bring her to his office she will be sitting on our laps so we should get used to it now.  At first we thought he was joking, but he was not at all.  We got seats and sat down; the entire procedure took less than 30 seconds.  But it was horrible… He used this claw like thing to open her eye while the nurse held her hands and feet so she wouldn’t move.  He then used a Q-tip to look behind her eye.  This is not an exam I would like to watch again; not at all.  Olivia did better with the exam than we did.  Of course she squirmed around because the nurse held her hands and legs but as soon as the exam was over she was fine.  So the results of the exam were that her eyes were basically the same.  With that being said, he will check again next week and we will go from there.  I’m glad they did not get worse.  We went to work after and came back to visit for the night touch time.  Livvy seemed tired, the exam took a lot from her.  When we weighed her, she gained another ounce! She is now up to 2.9 lbs.  Daddy also got to do kangaroo time with her and she did much better this time around.  She laid on daddy for an hour and a half; which made him very happy.