On the uphill swing....hopefully.

Meg has been wearing her horrendous patch for almost two weeks now. Earlier this week, she kept complaining that she couldn't see anything with her glasses on and she would beg to take them off anytime she was watching TV or coloring. So, I decided to test her myself. I made a small picture chart just like they have at the eye doctor. She couldn't see anything with her glasses on, but when she would take her glasses off (still with her patch on her good eye) she could see every picture. I thought that was very odd. I called the eye doctor and "just to give me peace of mind" he let me come in and have her rechecked. Turns out she is no longer legally blind. I guess in some cases the eye deteriorates simply because it isn't being used. As soon as her lazy eye was forced to work on its own, it made miraculous improvements. The eye doctor hasn't ever seen such a rapid improvement. He was shocked. Her prescription was changed and now she just has a minor eyesight problem in that eye. The lazy eye was completely reversed and he sees no sign of laziness anymore. YEAH!!! He wants her to wear her patch for one more week just to strengthen that eye a little more so that it doesn't reverse back to it's laziness when we take the patch off. I knew that initially the whole eye thing stressed me out in a major way but I didn't realize how much it was still stressing me out until we left that appointment and I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders. I was so excited at her improvement. The doctor says it is very good that we caught it this early. If it had gone on even another year it could have degenerated enough that it wouldn't have fixed itself as drastically as it did.

We are having a lot of bad luck with our house hunt. We both have felt good about the decision to buy, but we have had some unlucky run ins. The first guy was trying to pull the wool over our eyes. The second time our agent was handling the offer and negotiating. It would take 3 or 4 days longer than requested for them to respond to our offers. The final counter offer they said that they would pay our closing costs, but if the house appraised for less then they would reduce the amount of our closing costs that they would pay dollar for dollar. They also adamently refused to give us a carpet allowance. I wouldn't let me children walk bare foot on that carpet so that place is out as well. Grrrr! We are going down tomorrow to look at our final two options along with a bunch of rentals. We really need to find something that will work tomorrow because our time has run out. Our contract here ends on July 31st. Our landlords might let us extend a week, but at any rate we have to hurry. I am hoping with the excitement of Meg's eye improving so much that our house hunt will also improve. It might be wishful thinking.