Contact hell

We have officially arrived in contact hell.  Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.  Just grab a flashlight and search.  Search the hall, search the crib and do not go on a walk in the stroller because who knows where it could fall out.  Do not put your child in the nursery at church because you will never find the contact amongst the toys.  You must stay in one room ALL THE TIME in order to locate the contact when it falls out.  This my friends, is contact hell.

Julia got a new contact several weeks ago.  I was really happy because she had been close to 7 weeks without patching/contact because of a lost contact and surgery.  This new contact was falling out daily.  So we switched to glasses for a bit, but she HATES them.  (By the way - getting the glasses was a saga in and of itself.  Her frames had to be shipped to Minneapolis to have the lenses made and then they sent only the lenses back and not the frames.  Lots of drama.)  She really can't see out of the glasses and I imagine wearing a patch and not being able to see would be pretty horrible.  Well, she usually can't see much when she is patched anyway, but it is much worse in her glasses than in her contact.  The eye doc warned us that unilateral aphakic kids don't do well with glasses because it is like looking through a magnifying glass and it turns into "barrel vision." 

So we called our doc to have a different contact made.  It finally arrived and we picked it up yesterday.  Yesterday afternoon it fell out 3 times before I called it quits for the night and didn't put it back in.  Today it has fallen out 3 times - once while she was doing occupational therapy with Nina.  Poor Nina felt so bad, even though it was not her fault.  Thankfully we found it.  Just now, while writing this blog - it popped out again.  I found it on the carpet.

I have decided to try to change my attitude about the contact.  We are going to lose some.  It is inevitable and I need to accept that.  I can't live my life holed up in the house, afraid to go anywhere because I don't want to lose a contact.  We are going to enjoy our summer, go for walks, play outside and even go swimming.

Don't get me wrong - I am still nervous.  I still obsessively check her eye to see if the contact is in.  I worry that any time without her contact is time lost.  And we can't afford to lose time right now when we are possibly looking at another surgery this summer.

But we still will have fun:

Pretending to be gangsters.

And playing with trains:

Trying to crawl.

Eating:

Trying to eat!

He just plays too hard.

Just chillin with brother.

Our next pics will be from out and about because I am determined to have a fun summer.

I'm just praying that this next contact fits better and will stay in.  I feel like I am developing an ulcer over this contact!  So if anyone wants to join me, there is room for friends in contact hell!