Eye care for D-Rae

So, some of you may know that we've been working with Delaney's regular eye doctor in Ellensburg, along with a pediatric eye specialist in Bellevue to help strengthen her eyes. More specifically (and I don't know the exact terms, but Delaney's wonderful mommy can explain) her left eye is stronger than her right eye. We were patching her eye, to force her eyes to work collaboratively, but the specialist suggested using a contact lens to blur the vision in her left eye to minimize that eye's compensation for the weaker right eye. Got it? At first thought, contact lenses for a five-year old girl made me want to openly weap and Delaney played that card, but she's been a trooper lately and we're very proud of her.

Mommy taking Delaney's contact out, with Adelyn watching closely from a distance. Adelyn was very enamored with the whole process and I believe that was a distraction to Delaney, which obviously made it difficult for us to put the contact in or take it out.

This isn't torture, we promise. In fact, it was Delaney's idea. Her natural reaction when someone is trying to touch her eye is to turn away and use her hands to block us. Brittany isn't sitting on her and her legs aren't flat on Delaney's arms, but it's a perfect position because Delaney is comfortable and Brittany has easy access to her eye.