Day 146 - Tuesday May 8, 2012

So we ended up not going to Salt Lake to get Bridgett's eyes checked.  The brain guy that I talked to said that it's almost pointless to check the eyes right now.  She isn't wearing glasses and he thinks that she shouldn't wear them.  He also said that we should NEVER patch the left eye like they have been wanting us to do.  Luckily Bridgett hates having that eye patched and so we don't do it often.  If anything, he said to periodically patch the right eye in order to strengthen the left eye.  In this way he believes that the eye will strengthen and correct and we won't have to do surgery.  I'm up for that!  We still saw Dr. Roberts this morning, but Josh sent a text that he was sick and couldn't see Bridgett today for craniosacral.  He is leaving on a trip to Hawaii soon and so he is probably being careful.  I appreciate him not exposing Bridgett to anything either.  We went to Jenn's for a short visit and then did some walking on her block afterwards.  It's probably better that we had a quiet day, because Bridgett was very tired. The brain guy talked to Bridgett about the importance of getting good nutrition to the brain, so this morning I tried smoothies (again) and she drank the whole thing.  It took her a while, and her only real motivation was that she could have french toast afterwards if she finished the smoothie--but it worked and she at least got that down.  Later on in the day she had some meat--she hasn't been wanting to eat any meat.  Hopefully this added protein will help her have some more energy.