We took Daniel to the eye doctor again today for a follow-up.
It was a shorter visit this time which was nice.
Daniel was very excited as usual to go in the car and take a trip. He just likes to get out of the house and I really don't think that he cares where he goes. Daniel is such a great little traveler.
The doctor was following up for a bit of a strabismus problem that we had noticed way back when. We actually noticed it less recently, but still there. Alison has a form of strabismus as well with her amblyopia. Daniels form is where his eye deviates out. It is called extropia. Apparently this only happens when Daniel is looking at something far away. It does not happen when he is looking at something close up, which is good.
The bad news is that as Daniel gets older, he will be wanting to look at things farther away (like the T.V.) and so it is possible that the deviation will get worse.
We will need to keep an eye on the situation (no pun intended), but eventually Daniel may very well need surgery to correct the eye muscle.
I asked the doctor whether this was due to his lissencephaly and he said that he could not make a direct correlation with it but that he does see this in a lot of developmentally delayed children.
I on the other hand have no problem what so ever in blaming lissencephaly.
Stupid, PIA lissencephaly.
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