Another Year Begins
Happy New Year! We had two whole weeks with the boys over the holidays...we were so happy! We hope that you, dear ones, had a great holiday season as well! So. Did you know that long-term steroid use can cause your eyeballs to retain fluid to the point that their shape actually changes? Yeah, we didn't either. It must be one of those details (side effects) that they deliberately leave out of the newspapers. (Forgive me a movie pun.) Apparently, and quite logically if you think about it, the eyeball changing its shape negatively affects vision. Another lovely gift from Prednisone. Andy's vision has been getting slowly worse over the last few months, so last week he saw a neuro-ophthalmologist. She was one of the most patient and kind doctors we've seen yet! We knew that the disease had caused him to have nystagmus (rapid, uncontrolled eye movement), but she confirmed that he now has cataracts in both eyes. He ...