Glasses

Judson got his new glasses yesterday. We think he is too cute. Every time we see him we giggle and start kissing him all over. Last night when we got home from B'ham we had to take him to mawmaw's and Melanie's to show him off. The reaction was the same..."OH HOW CUTE!!! " and then tons of hugs and kisses. Now he must know how adorable he is in these glasses because whenever we first put them on he wrinkles up his nose and laughs like he is trying to be a little show off. It works, we all melt.

His ophthalmologist said that he should wear these safety glasses most of the time to get used to them. After that he said to wear them when he is toddling around, having outside activities and any time he is around other children. I was like..."OK... so I guess he can sleep without them". So far Judson doesn't mind them and keeps them on until one of the kids touches them and reminds him that they are there.

The ocularist didn't think it would be a good idea to add right now to the prosthesis because it would make it too tight. If it gets too tight I can't get it out. So, we are just going to leave it loose and spinning around for right now. He goes for another adjustment in 3 months. I have figured out how to straighten it up so that he is not looking cock-eyed without having to take it out and put it back in so, that makes things much more manageable.

School is going good. We are in the final count down now and with this pretty, warm weather it is all we can do to stay inside and do math. But we must do so if we are going to finish before May. I have been looking at a few curriculum changes for next year that have excited me. We will see how that all goes.

Life is always busy and seems to be getting more so...so blog time isn't happening a lot anymore. Thanks for keeping up with me anyway.

Judson's BIG eye

First of all, I am so sorry for such a long blogging strike. Sometimes life is too busy to waste time trying to blog about it. Right now I have 4 in bed sick with fevers so this really frees me up to have some Internet time.

Judson finally got his "big" eye, as we call it. It is actually called a painted scleral shell. This is still just the beginnings of several adjustments and changes to a better fit. We were not able to get an exact mold of his socket because he is just too little to hold still but in a few years he will get one that is a perfect fit. We have to go back next week for an adjustment because right now if he touches it it spins around and he looks goofy. When he wakes up I put him in bed between Eric and I and one eye is looking at me and the other at Eric. The kids love it. They try to make their eyes do the same. The conformers were so tight that his eye stayed irritated but they made this eye smaller so that maybe it will not be so irritated. But I think that they got it a bit to small because of how it is spinning. They will just build it up from behind and make it a better fit. Like I said, many adjustments to go. I think they did a great job on the color though. It is really neat, it has the small veins and the gold specks and everything just like his normal eye. She painted it wile Judson slept, she would just open his eye up a little just to get a color match. I have been removing it every night to get some practice removing it and to help keep down irritation. I thought it would be weird to remove it but it is really no big deal although Judson hates it.

We will go March 16 to get an adjustment and to his opthamologist to get glasses. They will only be safety glasses but he will need them since he will soon be toddling around and active with all his brothers and sisters.

This has been quite and adventure so far. I have met extremely neat people, people who have had horrible accidents that left them without 1 or both eyes, people who have lost their eye to cancer, others who have the same problem as Judson but it effects them in both eyes. others who have so many problems that a small eye is really the least of their worries. It all makes me so thankful for Judson's little eye.

 

Judson with his conformer in (very irritated)

 

No shell or conformer. This is what he would be like without modern medicine.

 

Two beautiful eyes, one dirty face