Milwaukee Appointment

What am I suppose to title this post if I can't call them "Milwaukee Mondays" anymore?

We had an eye doctor appointment at Children's Hospital again yesterday! As we went into the appointment I had my same hope as the rest of them - PROGRESS!

We have been in a very large waiting game and finally started making progress last time we went down. They had discovered after patching that Brode's eyes were no longer changing in vision. As long as they were maintaining after we made progress this summer his doctor would be happy and we could move forward with next steps (surgery options). We have been patching for the last 3 months again to keep them where they were at in hopes that our appointment yesterday would get us to move forward.

We had to leave early for our appointment, but one of the gifts Santa brought us for Christmas made the drive a whole lot better. Brode watched a movie all the way down, staying fairly quiet.

The appointment was the same as usual: fast! We met with the doctor this time (past few times we have had the assistants) where he checked Brode's vision, then did a few tests for tracking. Ths vision parts are always entertaining as he matches letters but as they get smaller you begin to tell Brode is just picking his favorite letters and not even looking at the screen. Once again his vision has not changed so they have decided to go ahead with surgery. We are the schedule for late May to get muscles loosened in each eye. The surgery will correct the tracking problems he has in each eye, we will then re-test the vision and see if any more patching needs to be done once the surgery is completed.

We always struggle with finding something to do after the appointment. It's a long drive just to turn around and come back with the little guy, but you can only do the museum, zoo, or mall so many times. This time around we put a few stops together including Golf Galaxy, Toys R Us, Hockey Haven and going out to lunch to fill the afternoon before driving back.

(Toys R Us)

(Warming up in the golf simulator)

(Showing off with his swing)

(Stick inventory at Hockey Haven and Matt drooling over all of them. Brode left here with quite a bit of purchased and free things)

Brode fell asleep on the drive back so after a 2 and 1/2 hour nap in the car and on the couch he was fully refreshed. We played for the rest of the evening and made sno-cones with our new sno-cone maker!