A Second Opinion for Andrew's Eyes

After much prayer, a providential meeting and research we find ourselves seeking a second opinion for Andrew's vision issues. Sunday we had a providential meeting as David and I had the opportunity to speak with a dear family in our church who dealt with the issues of strabismus years ago with their daughter(who is now grown). As the Lord had planned the Wilkin's daughter, Lydia and her family were visiting our church (this past Sunday) and it was such an encouragement to speak to her. She got us thinking about looking into having an evaluation by an optometrist and looking into the possibility of vision therapy. I had heard of this before, but when our eye Dr. didn't bring it up for Andrew I (incorrectly) assumed he was not a candidate for it. So, off I go researching all of these new terms.


In my research I found a wonderful site for amblyopia, strabismus and vision therapy called Vision 3D . This was so helpful and even has an online network referral service to find an optometrist who specializes in vision therapy in your area. So, I plugged in our info and out popped a place called Child & Family Eye Care that is based in the Woodlands and Magnolia. Wooohoooo!! right in our backyard. It gets even better though...when I called to talk to them they were so helpful friendly and the office we needed to go to is literally 10 minutes away! Amazing!!! I am so very excited I can hardly contain myself. In my heart I just knew we needed to go another direction but I did not know where to look and the Lord so graciously opened the door through a blessed encounter and a little researching.


My dear husband reminded me of proverbs 11:14 that says "there is wisdom in a multitude of counselors". I have to say no matter where this second opinion leads us I have such a peace in at least doing something rather than sitting and waiting out doing the same thing with the patching for another 2 months. We may still need to have surgery, but I am so encouraged by the aspect of stregthening the muscles and training them through therapy rather than just "have surgery and wait and see".


We have our first appointment Fri Oct 10th as this was the first available since we are out of town this week. I have lots to research from their website. I also mentioned when I set up the appointment about Kathlena and they will also take children as young as 6 months old so we will likely have her re-evaluated before we take her to her follow-up with Dr. Coats.