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Aaron had eye surgery on Thursday, July 10th. Meri and I were a total wreck that day. Aaron was brave, as he always is. I posted the key events of the day on plurk.com and on twitter (via ping.fm on my VZW BlackBerry). All of my updates, via plurk.com, several hours [...]

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Tomorrow is the day that Meri and I have been dreading since Aaron’s diagnosis back in December 2007. He’s having his eye surgery. I’m not going to list all of the potential negative effects of the surgery because he is going to come out great and the surgery is going to go [...]

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Aaron’s intermittent exotropia I discussed previously has been getting progressively worse. Meri and I have both been noticing that he is squinting more and more, even when he’s not outside in full sun and even when he’s wearing sunglasses.  Meri and I have had a bad feeling about what we both [pessimistically] thought would need [...]

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Aaron had another ophthalmologist appointment yesterday. This was his second opinion that I talked about getting after our not so fun first doctors appointment.
This doctor’s office was much more kid-friendly. When they had to dilate Aaron’s eyes, rather than have my wife and an office tech hold him down (like the first ophthalmologist did), the [...]

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Well, Aaron has intermittent exotropia. Meri called me from the ophthalmologists office while I was at work and I quickly GTFO of (left) work; I don’t even think I said much more to my project manager other than “can I leave!” (which was more of a statement than a question).
So the doctor said that Aaron [...]

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