Ok, so a while back, we made a conscious decision to stop giving Tate his eye drops that were prescribed to treat his glaucoma. They seemed to have become ineffective, as we were told they probably would, because he was still having pain despite the drops. The drops seemed to be doing more harm than good... he hated getting drops because they would sting his eye so bad. His eye got SO red afterwards... it was awful. So we stopped giving them to him. We didn't consult the doctor first, but at this point, we knew the eye was being removed soon, so we didn't sweat it.
Fast forward to today... he has been having a lot of trouble with light sensitivity, which can be caused by a few things, from what I've been reading, one of which is glaucoma. He also has been having pain much more regularly. As I've mentioned before, the pain can be caused from a few things that all have to do with the degeneration of his eye... his glaucoma, the band keratopathy (calcium deposits on cornea), or the calcium formation in the back of his eye, which has formed a bone. We assumed the bone in the back of the eye was the cause of most of the pain (sounds like it would be, right?), especially since the glaucoma drops didn't seem to be helping. But Tate actually asked for his drops today... he informed me that he should be getting those drops every day (if only he felt that way about his pain medicine!). Well, it wouldn't be the first time we let the 4-year-old call the shots. As soon as he said it, I got the drops out... I don't know how much it will help, but it's worth a shot. And I'm proud to say that he took them like a champ.
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