Mabel went to see Dr. Rabiah yesterday, her pediatric opthamologist. Overall, we received great news. He is confident that she has a great deal of vision in her left eye. We were expecting this news, but it is still reassuring to hear from the expert. He also suspects, as did we, that the vision in her right eye is affected by the coloboma. Our new course of treatment is patching her strong eye for two hours a day. This is also not a surprise as I had read that this is a typical treatment. Patching the strong eye forces Mabel to use only the weak eye. Otherwise, her brain will just stop reading messages from that eye altogether and there will be no vision in it. Dr. Rabiah didn't seem overly optimistic that the patching will make a huge difference, but because she seems to have such good vision in her left eye, he said we were not yet candidates for outside services for vision impaired kids. We head back to see him in six weeks to check in and see if the patching is helping. So overall, great news, but Mabel may now have to switch her Halloween costume from a skeleton to a pirate.
No pictures of her in the patch yet, but we'll post one when we have it. These pics are from Aunt Meagan taken when she and the girls were babysitting Mabel last weekend.
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