Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Eye Doctor - Good News!

Hello friends...

Today we visited Caleb's eye doctor at Vanderbilt. Because of the changes we found in the most recent MRI he wanted to evaluate his eyes. We are very happy to report this visit went well and we were encouraged as we left his office.

Dr. Donahue tells us that he sees NO change in his visual function and that his vision is tracking right in line with where it should for a child his age! He did this thing called an OCT scan which actually measures the thickness of his optic nerve and because he had the wisdom to do this at our last visit we had a good baseline to compare with. His opinion is that at this time we should take no action because we have a healthy child with good visual function - AMEN to that.

While we were there he called our neurosurgeon to chat about the tumor board and we learned that the review did not happen. It didn't happen because the neurosurgeon wanted to wait for Dr. Donahue to review Caleb and form an opinion before he presented the case. Caleb's case will be presented next week, and we are also blessed by the fact that the eye doctor happened to have a clear schedule at the time scheduled so he will attend. We are thankful for these provisions!

We will confirm this next week but we believe the current course of action will be another MRI in probably 3-6 months. We saw the pictures again today and got probably the best understanding of the size of the object we have ever gotten. The tumor is very real and there are still potential problems it will cause.

Please keep Caleb in your prayers and we invite you to celebrate with us today! There is much to rejoice in! We have received good news and our hearts are encouraged after having confirmed his vision is still in a great place. Thanks be to God for His protection over our child during this time.

We love each of you and are grateful for our support and love of our family.

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