Our 978th Eye Appointment

To be fair, I am honestly not sure of the number because I stopped counting a long time ago, but 978 seems a bit appropriate. And, I say that in a positive way because you know that we LOVE our appointments. What is not to love about hanging out with our family and getting feedback on our third child, Anderson's left eye?

You know that Anderson promptly settled in to watch some football with Big Cousin Noah.

Sidenote: Noah is in COLLEGE. Officially. He is officially in college and I think this was actually his first visit home. I do not even understand how this has happened, but I love that we were able to see him and hear about his classes. 

There was also some swimming, of course. 

At his actual appointment, we found out these things: 

1. His vision in his left eye is 20/25 which is UNHEARD OF IN A CATARACT EYE. The average corrected vision is 20/200 so I do not even know what is happening right now* except that I should clearly never ever complain about anything ever again. 

*The last 7 years of patching is what is happening right now. 

2. He gets new glasses WITHOUT the bifocal. For the first time in over 7 years, he will stop hearing from other kids that his glasses are "broken" because there is a crack in them. Also, and this is life changing, we do not have to drive downtown to get his glasses! I literally just added 17 hours a month to my life AND raised my sanity level 2 points. 

3. We can possibly stop patching at his next appointment. I cannot talk about this one now because I do not have words. 

4. We should not have let Anderson stay up until midnight to watch the VOLS go into overtime because he was yawning during his movie debut. 

On that note....we were asked by UAB Media department a few months ago if they could film part of Anderson's appointment and then interview us about our experience. 

I would give Dr. Cogen my right arm if he asked me for it, so you know that I immediately said yes and then thrust Brandon into the actual interview once it actually happened. 

Anderson did an awesome job and explained his cataract journey and I was so proud of him and, as always, so grateful that we have ended up in those seats because it means that our baby can see.