Last Thursday Michelle noticed that Tanner's left eye wouldn't look to the left. I thought she was seeing things, (motherly intuition). We left for Cedar City for the family reunion early morning Friday and I still didn't see anything. Friday afternoon it was obvious that Tanner had some type of issue going on with his eyes. We got an appointment with our awesome pediatrician Jeff Erickson for Monday at 9:00 A.M. He scheduled an appt with us for a pediatric opthamologist for Tuesday at 9:00 A.M. We met with Dr. Hoffman at Primary Childrens Center to see what was going on with Tanner. He told us it was most likely post viral palsy of the 6th nerve due to his recent pneumonia that he had in March. Dr. Hoffman wanted to rule out a growth so he scheduled a MRI for us at 12:30 that same day. Needless to say poor Tanner was sedated for the MRI and everything went really well.(the picture is of Tanner waiting to be sedated and only wanting to play with the pulse finder...) NO GROWTH. So now the poor little man has to wear a patch on his good eye until this viral palsy goes away. It could take as long as 6 months. Lessons learned: motherly intuition works, our pediatrician is amazing, (as well as every person who helped us at Primary Children's) High Deductible insurance is a CURSE & Tanner is a strong kid to go through all of this. So when you see us next, yes we do know that Tanner is not looking right at you, he's just looking at the 2nd you to your left.
