Having Carleigh with us each day is always good news. In fact, it's the best we could possibly have!
Today we have some good news from one of Carleigh's doctors - which we haven't had good "doctor news" in awhile! Carleigh's eyes are HEALTHY!!! The eye doctor said that is very good, because hydrocephalus usually does a lot of nerve damage to the eyes. Carleigh does have astigmatism (sp?) in both eyes. I was not surprised by that, because I, myself have astigmatism in one of my eyes. The doctor said for now the astigmatism is not bad enough to do damage to her eyes.
Since she is already behind developmentally, he wants to wait to prescribe glasses. She still has what I call "baby eyes", you know, the ones that don't focus right unless you are really close to them. We go back to see him in June, so I may have a seven-month-old with glasses!
For her weight check she is up to 8 lbs., 1 oz. Not as much as we would have liked,
but at least she's not losing!! Starting the 28th, we have numerous doctors' appointments.
On the 29th, Carleigh and I will have to spend the night at St. Louis, as we have back to back days of Dr. appts. Tomorrow we're off to St. Louis to see the neurosurgeon. It's a checkup for her shunt, so I'll post more tomorrow. :o)
The Life of An Angel: Carleigh Lauryn Grace