Day 806 - Eye Patching Gone Wrong 👁️
Thursday, March 16th, 2023 Today James wasn't feeling very good. Lots of suctioning of his nose. He is so full of mucus he is having a hard time breathing. We took James off the ventilator for PT but he ended up staying in the crib most of the time. He was very lethargic. Shortly afternoon we had him back on on the ventilator because he was just working too hard to breathe. Mom put the eye patch on him because we recently observed his eyes drifting. We were told by his pediatric ophthalmologist that we should eye patch him on his stronger eye when he is doing this. Mom noticed that James ended up turning his head causing his working eye to drift towards the front corner. This never happened before. Mom posted in 3 of the "eye" FB groups she is in, a group for Strabismus, a group for eye patching, and a group for vision therapy. Mom doesn't even remember joining all of these groups sometimes they are recommendations from others. It is super helpful to get advice right ...