May not be able to read for a while!

Good Luck buddy! We'll miss ya bunches!! Here is to a speedy recovery!

I saw on tv this thing about that said cross eyed people typically have one dominant eye and the other pretty much sees nothing. Is that what it's like? Or can you see two complete pictures and interpret both wonderfully?

Basically having two eyes is like having one eye. Cover one eye and look around, just like that. Only more detailed, wider frame of view, and this nifty thing called depth perception.

Good luck!! Get back here as soon as you can you will be missed.

Well having a lazy eye is a bit strange but I see almost 20/20 through both... actually I see better than20/20 in my left eye and slightly less in my right. I can see two seperate things when it drifts (my right eye drifts out to the upper right) but my left eye is dominant. It is true about depth perception though I do okay in sports when I only focus with my left eye and ignore my right. Having a lazy eye is basically - cover your right eye all but the outside corner- that's what it looks like when it drifts a big blank spot in the center of the right side of the field of vision. I have virtually no depth perception and have to go back and forth between each eye to keep them straight that's why I get headaches once in a while. So this surgery is going to be amazing - I'll have almost full depth perception for the first time ever, I won't have to focus and move each eye independantly which is nice- and I won't have that confidence issue of trying to sound intelligent and having the person you're addressing ask what you are looking at haha.

Good Luck!! :D

I am jealous!!! I have had one since I was little. I had always wrote with my head on my desk, left eye down. After realizing that i wasn't sleeping, the teacher in 6th grade recommended and eye exam. The Dr. said that there was no way that my vision could be THAT bad, and my mom needed to buy me some glasses with clear lenses, becasue i apparently just wanted to wear them like her........YEAH, right. When my Dad took me to his Dr. in RI in the summer, he diagnosed it, and it was toooo late for the "patch". The kids made fun of my glasses, that i WANTED, and i quit wearing them. i didn't go back until i was 19 and Todd wanted me to have them checked. My right eye is progressively worse due to my left eye causing soo much strain....
Let me know how it goes.........do you have any info on the surgery???????? I have not heard of this!!!! I am very excited for you....if you have any info, let me know!!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery!!!!

Good luck Jonah I just had surgery myself about a week and a half ago. I had to have my Gall Bladder removed. Thats what happens when you get old though lol. I am sure everything will be great and get back to us soon.

Wow rding - I TOTALLY know how you feel thankfully not too many people made fun of my patch or my glasses when I was younger haha. Basically they are gonna pop my eye out and stretch the muscles that are pulling it up and away so that the muscles in my eye will be more equal, thus getting rid (or at least greatly improving) the amount of pull. My right eye needs a perscription (sp?) lense, but my left lense is clear lol. It won't correct my near sightedness just the eye strain. I'm getting it now because it is still totally covered by insurance until I am 25 because of the headaches and such. I would recc. talking to your optometrist about it.

Thank you guys a lot for the kind words. I wasn't nervous but as it approaches I kind of am... well nervous and excited but I know all will go well :) Got a good feeling about this one :)