More miracles

Yesterday was Cam’s check-up at the Pretoria Eye Institute. He was pretty cooperative and Jacobus could successfully examine him – just in his consulting rooms; no anaesthetic, thankfully. He will have another exam under anaesthetic in two months time, but hopefully before too long he’ll be big enough for the docs (and Dad) to be able to examine him while he’s wide awake. (When we put his lenses in every morning, he chants, ‘Lie still! Open wide! There we go!’ at each stage of the process.) Jacobus was really happy – his eyes are still in good condition (all things considered! :)). His red reflexes are good, his eyes look healthy and ‘clear’ (no vitreous build-up), he is managing a bit of binocular vision and he is focusing well (again, under the circumstances).

Jacobus arranged for us also to see Dr Gideon du Plessis, who specialises in strabismus (squints). He is a wonderful, kind, godly man who knows all about Cameron’s case. At first he counselled us that right now would probably be the best time to operate in order to correct Cam’s squint, hopefully to give him some sort of depth perception. But then he examined Cam and he just kept saying, ‘Well, I can’t believe it... I can’t believe what I’m seeing...This is fantastic...’ and so on! Again, by God's grace, Cam has exceeded the expectations and predictions; what he is and what he can do are supposedly medically impossible. Dr du Plessis said that someone with Cam’s ocular condition should not be doing as well as he is, and that in fact we definitely shouldn’t operate now, and who knows, maybe not ever. His squint is not entrenched; with continued visual therapy and taking out one contact lens every afternoon as we have been doing (to strengthen the alternate eye), the squint may well, Lord willing, correct to an acceptable degree sans surgery. Thank you, Lord! We were so deeply relieved and grateful that we sommer ordered pizza on the way home, to celebrate... :)