Amblyopia

We arranged to meet our pediatrician this morning at the farmer's market for him to look at Douglas's eye, which Marni had noticed looked like it turned inwards when she saw us in Virginia. Douglas did not cooperate with having his eye peeked at (guess I shouldn't have told him Dr. Byrd was going to look at his eye) but Dr. Byrd managed to get enough of a look to be able to write a referral to a pediatric opthalmologist. He thought Douglas may have intermittent amblyopia (particularly when looking laterally) -- basically lazy eye. He thought it looked mild and said the opthalmologist may want to just watch it, but he wasn't sure. He did say that the pediatric opthalmologist has a lot of tricks like flashing lights to ensure that they can actually see the children's eyes. That would be an improvement over this morning, when Douglas spent almost the whole time with his head buried in my shoulder.