Another Eye Checkup

We took Isaac to have his eyes checked again today. I ended up missing a whole day of work because we had to spend such a long time at the hospital but it turned out that the wait was worth it.

First of all to recap, Isaac has ROP (Retinopathy of Prematurity) Level III which was stabilized by laser eye surgery while he was still in NICU at Toho University Hospital. Since he was discharged from Toho, we were able to change his primary hospital from Toho to St. Luke's International Hospital. A hospital established by missionaries and is still based on Christian principles. However we were told that we should continue to go back to Toho to follow up on his eyes. We have been going back to Toho but unable to communicate with the doctors as they do not speak any English. We have only been told that "nothing has been changed" each time we have gone back and the visits are always traumatic as they take him away from us and do not let us be in the same room when he is examined. Our last visit was in January 2008 when we were told "nothing has changed" and we don't have to return for a whole year. However, we started noticing that Isaac has been squinting a lot with his left eye plus he seemed to bump into things more often. At his last visit at St. Luke's, we voiced our concern to Isaac's ped Dr. K and Dr. K referred us to the Pediatric Opthalmology Department at National Center for Child Health and Development. We went to

We waited about 1 hour 45 minutes before we even got close to the exam room. When we were called in by the nurse, we were quite discouraged as they did not seem to know how to deal with a toddler