The eye appointment

Caitlin's eye appointment today went well. They dilated her eyes and did a bunch of tests to measure her eyes and look for any problems. Everything came back fine except for a minor case of what's called "Duane's Syndrome". It's not nearly as bad as it sounds though. The problem essentially is that one of the 6 muscles that control Caitlin's right eye isn't fully developed. The muscle in question is the muscle that controls her right eye moving to the right. What ends up happening is when Caitlin tries to look to the right, her left eye moves as it should but her right doesn't. End result is that her left eye looks like it's crossed because her right eye hasn't moved to the right to match the left. The good news is that Caitlin usually compensates for this by turning her head to the right to keep her vision in focus which is a good thing. Caitlin doesn't have to move her head to look to the right all of the time so it's not anything that is going to cause her problems. Hers is a very mild case and while it will never improve, it won't cause her any problems down the road either. The only thing that it would change is that Caitlin would not be able to be a fighter pilot. So overall, things went well. There's nothing seriously wrong and surgery won't be necessary. If you want to read more about it, check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_syndrome