The silly insurance company somehow thinks Gracie's name is "Garcia", and for months now I have been unable to get them to change it for whatever reason. So the doctor's office has to bill her as "Garcia Youngblood" in order for the claim to be paid. It's pretty funny! So Gracie's update is that she has two eye disorders in her left eye. They are amblyopia and strabismus. I also had strabismus (also called a "wondering eye")as a baby but had surgery when I was 3 years old to correct it. When she is looking at something, her right eye can focus, but her left eye is looking all the way out to the left. The amblyopia is a condition that goes hand in hand with the wondering eye and causes her vision to not develop in that eye. She will have surgery in a month to correct the wondering eye but will continue wearing the patch over her "good eye" for 3 hours a day to see if we can strengthen her eye and bring her vision development back up to normal. Today is the first day she has worn the patch and she is doing great. She hasn't tried to pull it off and honestly I don't think she even knows she's wearing it. The doctor's feel pretty good about the patch being able to fix her vision so we can avoid glasses down the road.
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