Welcome to blog. My name is Maria, and I’m a forty year old wife, and mom of two boys, ages ten and seven years. Forty snuck up on me like a thief in the night....one day I was having a blast in my twenties, and suddenly I find myself highlighting my hair to cover the gray that is so determined to take over my natural color - like weeds in a garden. And my body, well, it’s been through more in the past forty years, than most people go through in a lifetime.

But, I am a different person for it all: I am medically wiser, a more compassionate person towards others who suffer with medical problems, and I have become a pro, so-to-speak, when it comes to communicating with doctors and their medical staff. I have found my voice when it comes to my body. And I know how to be an active part of my own healing, both emotionally and physically. It has taken years to get to this point, because even growing up with my father as a physician, and my mother a nurse, I never realized how important of a role we play in our own healthcare. And we do.

Just because they are the doctor, the professional, I have come to realize that their degree on the wall doesn’t mean that they don’t make mistakes, miss things, overlook things, or simply do not have all the answers. True, it is their job, to get to the bottom of our problems and medically treat our problems, but they need us, in order for them to do it effectively and successfully.

Follow my website, and you will hear a tale of all medical tales - how I overcame some of the most unusual medical problems, how I learned to use my voice in my own healing, and how you can too.

Thank you for visiting,

Maria

It is pretty certain that my oldest son is going to need surgery on his eye to correct his esotropia.  To correct it surgically, they will need to go in and repair the eye that is drifting, which is his right eye.  When my son reads, his right eye tends to drift in, and almost cross, while he is reading.  In order for the eyes to not send a "crossed-eye" message to the brain, the brain essentially shuts down his right eye, so that he is basically only seeing through his left.  His right eye doesn't go black in totally darkness, it just sits there, almost dormant, until he looks up and straight ahead again, then his vision returns fully in both eyes.  

This problems also causes him to not have good 3-D vsision.  He will be able to drive and do normal activities, but in a sense, his depth perception is affected.  This causes him to fall more than a boy his age should be falling.  The doctor has ordered him to use over-the-counter reading glasses, the strongest there is, when he reads.  If this helps him, then she will know that the surgery will also benefit him, so they will go ahead with it.  If the glasses do not help him over this next six weeks, then she'll know that to do surgery wouldn't help.  I don't fully understand the connection, but she is the doctor.

I feel fortunate for him only having one eye affected by this.  Some children are born with both eyes having Esotropia, and to really bad degrees, too.  But when it is your child, even one eye can be bad enough.  You don't want to ever see them struggle with anything, or complain about headaches, or their eyes being tired.  Especially when your child likes to read as much as mine.

I will keep my readers updated on whether or not he is going to be a candidate for this surgery or not, and if so, when it will be.