This kid!

This kid got to go to the dentist.  I thought it wouldn't be bad since it was a re-filling on a tooth.  Nope.  The filling had cracked or the tooth had cracked and it needed extensive excavating.  It was a longer and more unpleasant process than I had anticipated.  Rylee was a trooper, even though she hated the laughing gas and hated having her mouth open and hated the poking and noise.

I took her out for donuts, which she managed to eat with numb lips. And she needed a little snuggle time before she went back to school.  But I was really proud of her.

A bit later was an optometrist visit. She talked me into an ice cream date after her eye doctor appointment.  She has to patch her good eye for 2 hours each day.  Not fun.  And awkward when people get all concerned and wonder if she stabbed herself or injured it somehow.  But she has been phenomenal about doing it.  I don't even have to remind her except on weekends,

Anyway, at the eye doc appointment, he said her not-strong eye is improving!  Yay!  The problem is that her left eye is borderline legal blind.  And it is always in that way.  So her brain has tuned it out.  Now she has glasses, but her brain is so use to ignoring that eye that it doesn't use it or process info from it.  Thus the patching, to train the brain to use the left eye.  If she doesn't do this, then she will never have decent vision in that eye.  Right now I think she's at 20/60 WITH glasses!

She's a good kid and a cute one and I like her!