Our Rowan Toby has managed a full week as a contact wearer! Every morning, he brings out his case and the saline solution, just in case. He calls it rescue juice š Cute, hey? He brings it to the island and waits patiently for me to come help him. It still takes until the second or third try sometimes, but he is SO patient and seems so comfortable. He tries SO hard to be so still, and giggles when it makes the gross squirty sound. Then he blinks it into place for a second or two, and the puts his stuff away. Patch goes onto the right eye, and off he goes! Patch comes off for school, and back on when he gets home. He really doesn’t care for the patch :/ Poor guy. He’s sure had a lot of change recently, and he handling it with very real strength from God! He goes about the rest of his day with a contact and a patch until shortly before bed, when I take his contact out and we switch to glasses and a patch, just to give everything some time to breathe. He is happy to have his contact taken out, even though he was very hesitant about it in the beginning. I often get that first try, and then he likes to fill the case with “rescue juice” and put it all away himself. Rowan taking his patch off is the highlight of his day. I can attest that he reacts the way you might if you were taking your bra off at the end of the day š Complete relief, hahaha!
Rowan will have a follow-up appointment next week to see how his eyes are handling the change, and if his vision is changing at all. The whole point of this is to wake up the parts of his brain that aren’t really working to turn on his left eye, so his brain is working very hard. It always works extra very hard (yes, thats a thing) while he navigates his overstimulation and some symptoms of ADHD. That boy WORKS. And its HARD. Yet he is doing SO WELL!!!
This is not the most impressive picture, but Solly ran and dove into Rowan’s arms, uninvited, and Rowan embraced it and called to me to take a picture. Guys. That counts. I am SO thrilled with his beautiful progress. I appreciate that kids are resilient, but people who are resilient still need lots of care and acknowledgement. We are resilient because we have to be. Because we have struggled. Its not a casual “He can take it, he’s a kid” thing. Not to me.
Aaaaanyway. Brag alert. I am incredibly impressed with Rowan’s attitude towards all of these changes š Beautiful job, Ro! I’m SO proud of your determination!! šŖ