Eye Appointment

I am a few days late with this update but I wanted to share details about Kaia's appt with the pediatric opthalmologist last week. For those of you who saw her in her first few days, you may remember the crazy bruising around her eyes. At first it was thought it was trauma from birth but our pediatrician said it was an angioma. An angioma can occur anywhere on the body and is essentially a collection of blood vessels that should disappear before the age of 5. Because it was so close to her little eyes, he wanted her to be checked by an eye specialist. We were concerned about it and hoped her eyes were okay! In the meantime, she developed bilateral tear duct obstructions, which meant she had tons of eye goop because the tear ducts weren't draining! She was quite the site! To help with that, I massaged the areas to help it drain. She hated it but I felt like I was doing something for her! And then one day, picture day actually, her eyes just cleared up!! Even the angioma looked better. So we went to the specialist appt last week. We brought pictures so she could see what we were talking about since she had cleared up. My poor little girl didn't have an angioma but had something called a dacryocele! Apparently this isn't very common and is something similar to a hernia (of the lacrimal sac--by the eye). This went along with the tear duct obstructions. If not treated, surgery is needed to decompress the area. Well, new mommy that I am....I cured her with my obsessive massage of the area!! The doctor said that is what made it go away!! And thank God no surgery is needed! This shouldn't ever come back and her eyes are fine!! What a relief! So this is our first medical story with our darling Kaia! Here are before and after photos so you can see what I mean. And the specialist we saw practices and teaches at Yale and asked us to email some photos of her eyes to use in teaching the med students. She will be famous!!