Can anyone give me more insight on strabismus surgery?
My daughter had the surgery at 22 months. She has partially accomodative esotropia – her eyes turn in because she’s farsighted, but also due to overactive muscles. We tried glasses alone for 6 months, and while they helped, her eyes were still crossing significantly. The surgery is a relatively short outpatient surgery. It took about 45 minutes. Your son will go under anesthesia, so will need to not eat the day of the surgery. For us, the hardest part was watching our daughter come out of anesthesia, she wasn’t fully awake or aware at first, and was screaming, crying bloody tears (this is normal, but pretty upsetting for parents), and nothing we could do would calm her. She screamed fr about 20 minutes, fell asleep for 3 minutes and woke up completely different and asked for juice. After the surgery, her eyes were sore and she was a bit moody for the rest of the week. We had to put eye ointment in her eyes a couple of times each day, which was a real fight, but all in all, the recovery
