update on Aubrie's Dr. appointment

We met with Aubries doctor today and she came in with a mission...
(b/c Aubrie is first seen by an intern).. Aubries eye has not responded the way she had expected it to... the doctor was not happy at all.. and Aubrie took it personally.. i had to explain to her that the dr. was not actually mad at her, she was mad that the eye had not done what she had expected. I showed the dr how she had to start at a 60 font and how she is actually reading books now (the ones with larger print) and she was understanding that we have been working very hard and on a strict schedule with the things we do with that eye.... We knew along time ago that her left eye is a "stubborn" eye.... and now this dr is finding that out too..

So now we have to patch for 3 more weeks.. she will patch all day until school starts and then patch when she gets home from school until she goes to bed. then of course all day on the weekends. and the dr wants her to do more reading playing the DS and add in some dot-to-dots to make the eye work harder.

So you see its not awefull news.. but the spirit of defeat came over me today
and i have had a hard time shaking it .. which has made me cry every time
someone called to check in.. so please dont take it personal.. i was just trying to keep it together in front of Aubrie.

I have been praying all day that i will not accept the spirit of defeat , in Jesus' name. and i believe that God heals and that He WILL heal Aubries eye. Please keep Aubrie in your prayers for God to keep working in her eye as He has already been doing.. because Skipper and I have seen her eye healing each day, no matter what the report was !!

Update on Aubrie's eye....

Aubrie has been reading several times and playing her DS ...EVERY day for two weeks.. she has patched from the time she opens her eyes in the morning right up unitl she closes them to go to sleep. She is actually reading books now !! What an accomplishment !! She has worked so hard, and has gone from reading a 60 font to reading books !!! God is So Good !!

(note.. her eyes are red because when she takes her patch off at night , she rubs and rubs and rubs)

she has her Dr. appointment on the 21st of August so I will update then to tell you what her eye has done by then !!

Silly Jass....

Jasmine ate an entire bag of GREEN Fun Dip.. see what happens.....

silly girl !!

Happy Birthday Mom....

August 11th.. mom's birthday.. we went out to eat at Los Cucos (big surprise).. haha !! we all had a great time !!

Mom, Beverly, Debra, and Margaret

Wolfgang, Payton, and Skipper

pretty little Mia

Nana with Maddie, Mia, and Aubrie

Nana and Aubrie being silly ( like always)

ole

Nana trying to start a food fight with a spoon full of whip cream

Payton

Mia.. just couldn't hang

Wolfgang

A new niece or nephew

I am SO SUPER excited I am going to be an "Auntie"... my sister Nicole (Dole) is going to have a baby !! she is 6 wks and due the first of April !! Yay!

Tres Amigos

this picture is of Me, Raquel, and Trish.. its from several weeks ago.. but I wanted to share.. we are having a blast out together !!

Update on Aubrie

Sorry for the quality of the photo.. its the best my phone can do..

this is a picture of Aubrie and her Children's Pastor , Mrs. Louann. She wanted Aubrie to bring her a patch too.. so Aubrie will not be the only one in the Children's Ministry that had a patch !! Now what love !! Also note, the patch over Stitch's eye.. he didn't want to be left out of the fun either.

So on to the update...

We are approaching week #2 on our journey of healing... when we started out 2 wks ago the doctor wanted her to read every day and play her DS alot !! Well when we got home, she could not see the words to any of her books.. so I decided to take a book and type it on the computer and just print out the pages for her to read.. we found out that she could only see a font size of 60 ( type with a 60 font and see just wow big that is ) and when she read it was only a few inches from her face.. Well alot has happened in just a week and a half.. she is now down to reading a font size of 30 !! Praise God !! And she tells us every day something new she is noticing that she can see better. She has been quite the little trouper through all of this !! Don't get me wrong we have lots of incentives for her to complete this time, but hey, it works !! We just wanted to share these updates with you.. her next appointment is on August 21st.... so I will update with the amazing results i know we are going to receive !! Just keep our little girl in your prayers for complete healing of her eye ! She knows God is good !!

And the Patching starts.............

As many of you already know my little girl has Ambelopia in her left eye.. we have known this for about 3 yrs now. Well, during this time we have been seeing an optomologist here in Katy, and over the past year his "diagnosis" of her eye kept getting worse and worse.. he had us get an mri or catscan... cant remember which one.. and told us there were cists on her retna, but he couldn't do surgery in risk of doing more damage to the retna in the long term. Aubrie kept telling us when we would pray for her eye that God has already healed her eye... and not long after that the cists were not only off of her retna.. there was not even a trace that they had even been there !!! no scars ... .nothing !! This past visit with him, he made it sound like her condition was just incurable and really rare !! He told us to stop all efforts to regain sight in her left eye and keep her wearing glasses to protect the "good eye".. after leaving this appointment I was furious !! I do not believe in giving up or that her eye is done !! God heals and I believe in that 100 %

There is a little girl in Aubrie's class that has the same eye problem and her mom told me about her doctor and how wonderful she is, how she never gives up, and how aggressive she is with her treatments.. Well it turns out she is the same doctor that helped my cousin regain eyesight some 20+ years ago.

Her name is Dr. Helen Mintz-Hittner she is down in the Med Center she has been in practice for 39 yrs treating kids with eye problems. I HIGHLY recommend her !! Well we had an appointment yesterday with the new doctor !! it went WONDERFUL !! She told us how common this eye disorder is and how it can be reversed with aggressive treatment (no surgeries) she told us that we needed to patch Aubrie's "good" eye every day ALL day , from the moment she wakes up until its time for bed. We need to do this for 3 weeks straight and she can get her eyesight from 20 / 400 all the way to 20 / 30 !!! Just in time for school to start !! are you kidding me !! only 3 weeks !!! What a short amount of time for such a HUGE outcome !! Dr. Hittner also told us that it is very common that these other doctors tell alot of people these things because there is no money in treating kids like Aubrie... b/c most of the work is with the kid and the parent.. they don't need surgery or any other major medical things.. so they basically send these kids away with these diagnosis of not getting better because they cant make any money !! Can you believe that !! How many kids are these doctors not helping because they aren't making a bunch of money off of them !! I was so mad about that I wanted to go and picket the office .. .so others can have hope too for their kiddos to get better !! I am still in shock over that one !

Skipper and I truly believe God sent us to this new doctor for hope and healing !! We are so blessed and so excited to see what the next three weeks bring...

Aubrie was not real happy at first , but after long talks about being able to see out of that eye finally and of course a few bribes :) she is coming to terms with what needs to happen !!

So today is day 2 of patching and she is doing really well .. . I am asking for prayers for complete healing of her eye... we have a Big God and He can do BIG things... and we are believing in that..

Keep miss Aubrie in your prayers to .. to understand this is a tiny amount of time for the benefit of the rest of her life !! and keep Skipper and I in your prayers.. for patience and love when she is having a bad day with all the patching...

We will keep you posted !!