More Bad News

I swear, I'm just going to stop taking William to the doctor. It always seems like it is one kick in the gut after another.

I have known for a while that William's vision is not normal. But with all his swiping at toys and tracking things, I had started to get very hopeful that he had a lot of functional vision. Yesterday was William's second Ophtho appointment. It was very dissappointing. When the doctor's first question after her exam is, "Have you applied for SSI?", you just know what's coming next is no good.

His right optic disc now is appearing paler than it had before indicating optic nerve atrophy rather than hypoplasia. She didn't think it would get any worse but couldn't guarantee me that. She said that she approximates 20/400 vision with his better eye (the left) and quite a bit worse with his right. The doctor did not think that glasses would help much, if at all. Add initial signs of Cortical Vision Impairment and his visual prognosis is not promising.

So, he is officially considered legally blind now. I hate this.

Later today, I am going to post some good news!