White Reflex

WArning...this post contains many run-on sentences that I don't have time to fix.  Sorry Dan:)  Ha!  The life of a new mom with horrible spelling issues and lazy grammar when tired!

 We had quite a scare at our house this week.  A former classmate of Dan's emailed him through facebook and said she had been looking at some photos of Svea and as an eye doctor was concerned about the white reflection she was seeing in her right eye in some of her pictures and that we should get it checked out.  At first I wasn't going to blog about something so personal going on in our lives, but then I thought this was good for people to know....of the few people who read this it'll be a few more of us that know about it and can point it out to any other parents so that we can keep babies safe.  Basically the human eye is supposed to reflect back as red as you see in the first picture and what most people try to avoid.  However, there is this condition where infants eyes will reflect back as white meaning there could a tumor behind their eye or possibly cancer.  To say the least it was very nerve racking and we had our first experience as parents going about our day just trying not to throw up with anxiety.  We took her to the eye doctor right away where she told me that if we catch it early it's ok.....fake eyeballs look pretty real these days and it can be fatal so this is good we came in...arhghghgg!  Not what a parent of 3 months wants to hear.  Anyway, she said things looked really good, but wanted to refer us on to an Opthamologist since they have better equipment. 

ORIGINAL PHOTO...red eye=good!

PICTURE ON FB THAT HAS HAD RED EYE FIXED=SVEA'S RIGHT EYE APPEARS WHITE

 3RD PICTURE I USED A DIFFERENT PHOTO PROGRAM THAT TURNS THE RED EYE BLACK LIKE IT SHOULD!

As you can see it was our photo shop program that caused the white reflection...so in case you see this in a child or see this on your own...make sure it's not your computer program!  Ahh!!  All that and it was nothing.  We are VErY thankful and appreciative of someone pointing this out to us anyway even if it did cause us to possibly develop some ulcers:) 

I promise I'll have some new pictures of Svea soon...it's so hard to get posts out when I'm working!  I was going to take a picture of her in her dress this past Sunday, but we got home and she was quite crabby from being there all morning and most of the afternoon...soon!!!