Eyes

Today, Randy saw Dr Baxstrom, his opthamologist that he has been seeing since Valley Medical. He tested Randy's double vision and his eyesight. With the double vision, there were no improvements. With the eyesight, Dr Baxstrom said there was a little improvement in the right eye. He said the improvement might be from the drops that Randy had been taking. He also did some eye exercises with Randy. The exercises showed just how much Randy's eyes work independently of each other. On one exercise, his right eye could see letters that were in red blocks whereas his left eye could only see the ones in white blocks. The goal is to try to retrain the eyes to work together again.

The afternoon was spent dealing with insurance. We had two different companies that had collected from the insurance that continued to bill us and say the insurance hadn't paid. The insurance company was great about dealing with it. They actually took on the responsibility of calling the companies and sorting out the issues.

This evening, the whole family went to the support group (I with my pillow in tow). Randy actually was more vocal this time than he has been other times. He spoke about his experiences as well as asked other people quite a few questions. I think it is definitely good for him to go and be around others who have been through the same thing. Listening to some people's stories, it makes him feel fortunate for where he is at today and listening to others gives him hope of where he wants to be.