One Year Post-Op (2nd Time Around)

Thought it was about time to post more pictures. Danny is now 3 years old. It has been a year since his second surgery and things are looking great. He still has no vision problems. We had a check-up with the surgeon last month. He said things are working good and that we should come back in another year.

Most of the time, his eyelid looks fine. When he is looking straight ahead, the only noticeable difference is the crease in his eyelid (which is missing on his ptosis eye). When he looks up, the non-ptosis eye is open wider. When he looks down the ptosis eye is open wider.

Danny's favorite silly face to make is one where he closes his ptosis eye and screws up his face, so in most of my pictures is eyelid looks extreme, but it's not. I asked him if his eye ever bothers him and his looked at me really confused and shook his head no. Sometimes I get people asking me about it. Most of the time they assume he just bonked it or something. If kids ask me about it, I tell them that he was born with it almost all the way closed and had to have surgery to get it open, so now it looks a little different. At home we don't make it a big deal. We joke about his silly eyelid sometimes. Today we were looking at newborn pictures and Danny said, "It's Pirate Dan!" Hopefully he will be able to continue that carefree attitude about himself.

So for these pictures I took 2 from the same day and tried to put them side by side so you can see how different his eye can look on the same day.

Sleeping Eyes

I get a lot of questions about how much Danny's eye is open when he is asleep and how often I put in ointment. First off, I only put the "Refresh PM" in his eyes for a week or 2 after surgery. He is now one year out from his second surgery. Second, he amount his eye is open varies but usually is is probably more than halfway closed. In the car (or if he is asleep sitting up for some other reason) his eye is open pretty wide. In the car the other day he fell asleep so I decided to snap a quick picture to show you all:


Don't freak out if you haven't had the surgery done yet. This is really extreme and it usually isn't open this wide, but sometimes it is. And I don't use ointment and he has never had any dry eye problems. It's not something that ever bothers him. Here is the awake picture just after so you can see how normal (although spacey) his eyes can look when awake even if they look like this when asleep: