Gerilyn
11-12-2009, 01:24 AM
Hello All,
I'm new to the forum so apologize if this situation has been posted and I missed it as I perused back forums...
Our daughter is a beautiful 13 y.o. with a plethora of neuro (she is profoundly developmentally delayed and medical issues including bilat anopth so she wears prosthetic eyes. Herein lies my dilemma - she takes her eyes out and recently lost a second one (she gave the other one to the puppy who graciously inscribed it with his teeth.)
Her eyes fit fine, but she knows she can take them out so she does. Due to her mental capacity we can't reason with her to keep them in or make her understand it is important to her growth; her language is limited so even if she wanted to tell us where she put an eye she wouldn't be able to. We've insisted all staff do "eye checks" when transferring care of her (i.e. I make sure her eyes are in when I put her on the school bus; bus personnel are supposed to do thee same when transferring her to school staff, etc.) I recommended the procedure when she previously misplaced an eye (which I finally found tucked into the corner of the unzipped head rest {which was unzipped ALL day - what are the odds of it not falling out...} on her wheelchair.) The idea being that if I know where she probably lost it I could look and find it - which I have many, many times before.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get her to keep them in??? If she isn't wearing them they aren't helping her bone structure. School and transportation personnel are paranoid about her losing them and suggested she only wear them while at home, but that defeats the purpose. Not to mention my trying to deal with a cantankerous occularist, and praying insurance will pay for another pair. I'm thinking the only option is to keep conformers in for school and wear her eyes for speial occasions; even at that I don't know if we can afford to keep paying for conformers out of pocket if she constantly loses them. Not sure how this forum works so I'll keep trying to check back. Help?!?:eek: Peace, Geri in MN
I'm new to the forum so apologize if this situation has been posted and I missed it as I perused back forums...
Our daughter is a beautiful 13 y.o. with a plethora of neuro (she is profoundly developmentally delayed and medical issues including bilat anopth so she wears prosthetic eyes. Herein lies my dilemma - she takes her eyes out and recently lost a second one (she gave the other one to the puppy who graciously inscribed it with his teeth.)
Her eyes fit fine, but she knows she can take them out so she does. Due to her mental capacity we can't reason with her to keep them in or make her understand it is important to her growth; her language is limited so even if she wanted to tell us where she put an eye she wouldn't be able to. We've insisted all staff do "eye checks" when transferring care of her (i.e. I make sure her eyes are in when I put her on the school bus; bus personnel are supposed to do thee same when transferring her to school staff, etc.) I recommended the procedure when she previously misplaced an eye (which I finally found tucked into the corner of the unzipped head rest {which was unzipped ALL day - what are the odds of it not falling out...} on her wheelchair.) The idea being that if I know where she probably lost it I could look and find it - which I have many, many times before.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get her to keep them in??? If she isn't wearing them they aren't helping her bone structure. School and transportation personnel are paranoid about her losing them and suggested she only wear them while at home, but that defeats the purpose. Not to mention my trying to deal with a cantankerous occularist, and praying insurance will pay for another pair. I'm thinking the only option is to keep conformers in for school and wear her eyes for speial occasions; even at that I don't know if we can afford to keep paying for conformers out of pocket if she constantly loses them. Not sure how this forum works so I'll keep trying to check back. Help?!?:eek: Peace, Geri in MN