Abrupt End

Hopefully summer isn't quite over, but that's the thing about Minnesota. Sometimes you don't get much of a Fall, it just gets really cold really fast. Not that I'm complaining (yet). Today was awesome running conditions, and it looks like it will hold out the rest of this week at least. I even bought a long sleeve running shirt yesterday, the first ever!

I'm still a little disappointed about the lack of a bike trip these last two months of summer. I opted out of the St. Paul Bike Classic that I've done with Steve the last two years. Although I've been saying this for probably the last 3 weekends, I think this weekend might finally be the one.

In other news, Megan had her eye check up yesterday. The results were... inconclusive at best. I'm not sure how I feel about it all, other then I simply want to make sure we do the best possible things for Megan. The basic results were this: her near sight viewing has gotten better, and she has little to no problems focusing on close objects anymore. However, her far sightedness still has some eye wandering. The actual medical term for this is "intermittent exotropia" viewing distant objects. The main point being, for Megan it doesn't happen all the time (or even the majority) and that she is able to do some focusing on far away objects.

For this visit, Andrea actually saw the eye Doctor as opposed to the eye nurse specialist in all our previous visits. Again, the topic of surgery was brought up. The doctor indicated that for children with only intermittent problems, surgery has a much higher success rate (opposed to more serious cases of exotropia). Overall, she seemed to express that Megan was a prime candidate for eye surgery.

I really don't know how I feel about that or what to think... I guess it's not something I have to worry about for now, because even if we started entertaining the possibility of surgery it would be until she was at least 4-5 years old. It's something you want to do earlier, but at the same time, you really want to exhaust other treatment (patching) and give the brain as much time as possible to correct itself. Most things you read about exotropia will tell you that time is on your side.

So anyway, that's been occupying my thoughts as of late. I love Megan so much, I would never want her to have to struggle with vision as she goes through life. Just thinking about that now gets me pretty teared up. Hopefully time will be on our side, and we won't have to go the surgery route.