Randy had an appointment with the Opthamologists at Harborview today. It wasn't good news today. There have been no improvements with Randy's eyesight or his double vision. The doctor said that if there hasn't been correction by this point, it generally means that the nerve will not heal on its own. For the double vision, the doctor thinks Randy will need surgery. Randy will go back in two months to get baseline measurments to prepare for surgery. They will not do surgery until all improvements have been made, so if there are any changes they will not do it until his eyes stop changing. Randy doesn't want to do surgery. He is very much scared of it.
For the nearsightedness issues, the doctor wanted Randy to take another set of drops. The one he prescribed this time is the strongest one out there. Randy will have to take it for a week, but the effects of the drops will last for a couple of weeks after he stops taking them.
The other opthamologist that Randy has been seeing keeps giving Randy various prism glasses. The prisms haven't been working that well. They do move the objects further apart from each other, but they don't fix the problem. Today, the resident we saw told the student that was following his around for the day that the type of double vision that Randy has cannot be fixed by prisms. I believe that he called it the superior bleak muscle, but I don't remember for sure.
The news today was very disappointing. Randy has said in the past that he would rather lose a limb than deal with these issues with his eye sight. I was so hoping that the nerve that is causing this issue would heal on its own.
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