Lauren: Waking Up with Crossed Eyes
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After struggling with a cold and fever, Lauren woke up one morning with her eyes fixed inward. She was dizzy, sick to her stomach and couldn't see well because of the double vision. One eye would drift back and forth. "It made me feel like I was the only one with this sickness," says Lauren.
After no improvement the next two days, Lauren's mom, Kristina, brought her to the doctor to have the situation checked. Her doctor was worried it was seizure related but that was ruled out. The next step was to see a specialist at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). According to Dr. Erin Salcone, Lauren's Ophthalmologist at CHaD, "I was worried about her suppressing her vision in one eye -- that could end up as permanent vision loss. I told the family that we need her to come in and have the surgery done at the Outpatient Surgery Center ." Kristina said, "They made her feel special. It was her day."
Dr. Salcone commented, "She seemed at ease, the nurses are wonderful working with children. I found that she took charge of the situation -- she asked the appropriate questions." Lauren remembers, "I decorated the mask they would use to put me to sleep and they gave me a heated blanket -- it was so warm!" Kristina said, "She wasn't scared at all, that was the important thing. As soon as she said, 'I have pain', immediately she had pain medicine -- and it was gone, immediately."
Lauren had a great outcome and her vision is continuing to develop normally. After talking with Lauren's mom, she noted that from a parents' point of view, they were so impressed and felt comfortable taking their daughter down to Lebanon have the surgery. In Dr. Salcone's view, "The Outpatient Surgery Center is an ideal location for the surgeon and our patients and their families.
The nursing staff is accustomed to working with these patients and the equipment is top-notch. The follow-up with the patients such as calling the next day as well as the overall attention to detail makes it a wonderful place to receive care." The Harris family feels that for anything they would need to have done on an outpatient basis, they would choose Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Outpatient Surgery Center.
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I was diagnosed with strabismus when I was 7 I had to get a patch on my good eye to help my lazy eye(it ripped half my eyebrow off😭). I then later had to wear glasses with a patch on them or about 2 years. When I was 10 I had surgery to fix my estropia. It was the scariest day of my life and to anyone who has never had surgery it is rlly scary. The next thing I remember is being wheeled around on a hospital bed and spending the next couple of hours recovering. My eye was very sore but it was worth it.After having surgery my eye was very red sore and puffy and I couldn’t see out of it. I was given eye drops but it turns out I’m alergic to certain medical ingredients(yay😑). Now years later I have no problem with estropia but I am short sighted in my left eye(the one I didn’t have surgery on). I lost all my self confidence and worth during the ages of 7-10 because of bullying. If you know anyone with a squint eye, please support them as it is very stressful and hurtful to get bullied because of a medical condition. Anyway that’s my story of strabismus😄❤️
Well you're lucky I have Nystagmus and there's 0 cure I will never be normal and damn it sucks so enjoy your vision
Bless you Ciara... Hope you are ok now...eye probs are really annoying..Being bullied is universal, it seems.
Hello, I have refractive amblyopia too 😭😭 I am obligated to patch too but I don't do it often 😭😭😭😭😭😭
My teachers noticed that I had strabismus at about the age of 7 or 8 (my eyes kept crossing and uncrossing ALL THE TIME, multiple times per minute - how had nobody noticed that earlier?), and I had to wear glasses and a patch to fix it. It's still fixed (I'm 40), and as long as I'm wide awake my eyesight is perfectly fine. However, when I get really sleepy, my eye muscles will relax and both eyes will go completely crossed. It seems that being crossed is still their natural position, and I'm just keeping them straight by a physical effort while I'm awake.
Following from that, I noticed that if I try to read anything shortly after waking up, the letters and numbers just look like gibberish - literally, nothing more than random scribbles. I can see everything else perfectly clearly around them, but appear to be unable to resolve writing at all for about the first 10-15 seconds after I wake up. So when I doze off for a few minutes in the train station waiting room and then suddenly snap wide wake again wanting to know how long it is until my train arrives - other people see me just staring at the board like an idiot for about 15 seconds until I can make out the letters and numbers...! :D lol
I am so sorry.
And I am NEVER crossing my eyes again!
kaia8110 kaia8110 yes it will help
I don’t know how to cross my eyes
Yes don’t or don’t be in your phone to much
I was born with crossed eye i got my first surgery when i was 4 years old i grew up being bullied about it and it made me super self conscious about it, im glad she’s receiving the help she needs for this because it will surly save her from so many problems in the future mentally.
I have crippling depression
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Josh Kennell You like to eat fast food.
your amazing :) do not be depressed
me too mine is called major depressive disorder
GamerBoy 047 Ew stfu
This young girl is very fortunate. When one of my eyes crossed, it was ignored. I took it upon myself to see an eye surgeon when I was 18. He said he would try surgery but was unsure of the outcome at my age. I was bullied in school and called Cockeyed Carey. It was a very long time ago when this happened to me. Still, I lost the vision in the eye that crossed (nearly 100%) and I see double all the time. Don't let your child go through what I did.
Srabismus surgery will fix eye hospital
I have lazy eye and crossed eyes
me too
I just have a lazy eye
I have a lazy eye and I am soo scared of doing surgery. Does it actually work? Or will they make a mistake and make you COMPLETELY blind?
mendes_army 4ever ugh same
sylvia ohlhoff you're a bitch
Ive had a lazy eye for 19 years now an no one would help me... ive had many operations and been patched and it doesnt even help..... i cant see out my one and i do mess up with reading. yeah this has ruined my self confidence and i dont have many friends from this but i am proud of who i am and i dont want to change that.
Adrién Diamond hang in there.
People who judge by physical looks aren't worth having around.
I don't know what your going through but I just wanted to tell you to keep your head up.
Stays positive. Be kind, and people will see you for who you really are.
Its exist a many exercises for lazy eyeYou can found them on yt.Its been proven by science that the game Tertis can cure a lazy eye. 😀
Never crossing my eyes again
Your so CUTE you are one lucky girl. You were still normal when your eyes when crossed you will always be normal NO matter what you look like
I typed up something and this came up and now I'm watching this and now I'm really scard and also why am i still watching this if I'm scard????
Griffyn Ghoul what’s scard
It's scared, but idk why you're scared
She is the cutest little girl i ever seen 😊😊
Jessica / Amber no bich stfu
She has pretty eyes too
Jessica / Amber ʜᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ
missing carl
Rude
Keven Garza
Rude
Who The Heck Would Dislike A Video Like This? It Make No Gosh Damn Sense.
A video will always be disliked no matter what. 😢
+MissGirl Gamer True
Astonish Turtle I'm Lauren, I'm in 8th grade now and what I can't get my mind around is why people think this is a joke. No humanity
Leah Lauren That's not u
Alexaaa hendren that is me and me and my friend Leah started a TH-cam channel. Who would try to be me anyway?!? Exactly. It's me Lauren!
Listening about this surgery is making my appendix scars hurt and feel weird
Amazing little girl! I would have been scared crazy if I were you!!! Your SO BRAVE!!!!!!! I wish I could be as brave as you!!! Amazing story! I'm so happy that they got to help you and that you were totally relaxed with what what was going on!!!!!!!! You are an inspiration to me! Your just truly amazing Lauren! Bless you!!!!!! :D
When i was 5 years old I had a crossed eye and stayed in the hospital for a week
Bless her heart she’s such a sweet girl
Beautiful young lady- God Bless
thats so sad and i wish her the best
She is soooo brave
I feel sick bless her and I hpe you heard that
I hope she's doing okay! It's a good thing her surgery was a complete success, you can't even tell she used to have crossed-eyes. Kids can be so cruel.
Janet Wood but I don’t understand where there are crossed eyes they seem normally
I have a similar problem. If i try to look in the top right corner, i would see double. I could do it for as long as i can remember. There may be a certain bone stopping it, because sometimes when i do it i feel a bone going straight through my eye.
I was born myopic and when i was around 11 I had a retinal detachment I realized it but being dumb kept quiet and let my eye slowly go lazy fast forward to 2020 I was diagnosed with a cataract and retinal detachment. One very long operation and the cataract is gone but still I see double double on my left eye , read the comments figured out it happens to lazy eyed people kinda was happy to know I'm not alone here , for someone always being confident throughout their life no matter what my eye has really somewhat affected my self esteem.
Would this be called Alternating Esotropia? This sounds like the surgery that I had when I was 3 years old. My eyes were more like hers whereas I have a brother who had just a lazy eye so it was just one eye that he was using whereas I was using both but back and forth. It was successful though later on in life it doctor wondered if I could have done with the second surgery. When I had that checked by a doctor he said a second surgery at the stage I was at which was in my mid-30s would just result in double vision. I've been able to drive and basically do normal things. Looking back I think it affected my ability to judge distance in sports but being so into tennis retrained me to be able to do sports that particularly involved balls. There are a certain amount of times the effects have shown up but nothing serious or life-threatening. When I get tired one of my eye still wanders a bit and now I am 51. I am told I don't have much in the way of depth perception but the only affect I can see is that things appear Little Closer Than They are so that's good cuz then I don't end up running into things.😏 Some things may appear flat to me that are three dimensional but I'm so used to my vision that I see everything as being normal to me.
That's sad but she's brave and I have gotten a lot of shot in my life
i've had crossed eyes ever sense I was born and I almost always see a little double. I think the worst thing is the eye strain.
I get eye strain so often. When it gets really bad I go to the eye doctors to get new lenses to help. Probably go around every 6 to 8 ish months.
how are you now
@@johncharles4146 I still have crossed eyes, and I still get eye strain but I forget to wear my glasses a lot. Not wearing my glasses is one of the reasons why I get eye strain
I have short term memory loss, ADHD, I'm nearsided and I don't know anymore
I know the feeling of not knowing anymore I have really bad eyes and doctors don't know why the doctors are about to give up
that such agood story oh my gosh good luck with everything now
She's so pretty!
God bless.
I have a lazy eye and I’m scared to have surgery but this vidio really helped me
it just sucks. people with normal eyes take it for granted. i guess we all do. my left eye does what it wants. sometimes in sometimes out, sometimes normal(yes i have tried excersises) . its very disparaging in todays social world. cause wherever u go someones want to take a picture. and i can tell you, having my eye turn in then out is worse. it just is. so imagine every time, every time, a third time, every time you take a picture not knowing how your eyes are gonna turn out. certainly, no pun intended. no surgery for me, i just "eye" the storm.
I cried and felt bad 😧
I had surgery when i was 4. Got bullied throughout school snd i struggle with confidence & self love at 41 due to my strabismus.
It is a good video
omg Lauren is so brave and cute !!!
Same thing happened to me but I can control it although it’s starting to do it on its own which is probably not a good sign
i have lazy eye sometimes it so uncomfortable.
Was she a bit longsighted and just very good at compensating for this until she became ill?
As a crossed eyed person this is relatable
So how did it happen? They didn't explain. So they didn't try to treat it straight to the knife.
Recently I have been experiencing the same issue, not sure why.
Its kind of the same but I control mine and I see 2 of the same thing but one is real and one is like a ghost but when I stare at something it does it its bothering but its ok
Why did you put that on TH-cam.
So what was the diagnosis?
My daughter just woke up with crossed eyes I need to Kno too
Missy_slimes I know can’t anyone just cross their eyes?
its lag
Stfu dont joke around like that bro she is sufferin
i have a lazy eye my right eye points outward and it's making me lose all of my self confidence. Still learning how to love myself. 💜 STREAM STIGMA AND SINGULARITY!
Mee too same problem ,I cannot take photos because of lazy eye I very sad any suggestion plz
Double vision is also costed by not blinking.
poor girl 😢😢😢😭😭😭
I have epilepsy aka seizures they are scary and terrifying
That doesn't normally happen
this happened to me last night :/ i woke up and cudnt see out of my right eye and wen i started to regain my sight, i looked in the mirror and my right eye was close to the corner of my nose :( i dnt think that it's crossed anymore bt my eye hurts ... waiting to see a doctor, such a nervous wreck right nw
year right
Rebecca Turrell yes... right
***** what are you talking about
faker
+Tyrone Jackson lol
I do.
So sad
Never crossing my eyes again I'm scared
is it weird that I can change between double blurred vision and normal vision at will?
same here .. but I have a lazy eye -_-
No it’s not weird,it’s an ability and normal
it happens to me all the time
why does everyone say they will not cross there eyes
Im just so sad that I'm like somehow always crossed eyes i think something is wrong with me i gotta rest
Omg I'm creative and I love watching TH-cam too
I had the same thing
Weird......My name is Lauren and my eyes are naturally crossed! 0-0
xD me too, one lazy eye.
Can you cross your eyes outwards to see normally?
You see regular though right?
Excite Yh u see regular cos if u have one lazy eye, ur brain learns to mainly focus on the stronger one, meaning u see normally just ya know u can see out of the other eye
new fear unlocked - kara
my sister had the same decorate-your-mask when my sister had her surgery.
Really? Fun, with mine, they put flavoring on the inside do I wouldn't smell/taste the anesthesia. It didn't really work but they tried! Was your sister aloud to keep the mask?
yea,she was able to keep it but the anesthesia smelled like sharpies and there wasn't enough flavoring/smell stuff she she could smell the sharpies
Oh my gosh nobody will believe me am but this has happened to me before. I have woke up with crossed eyes when I was a kid and I could see 2 of everything, I just tried to go back to sleep and when I woke up it was gone
Amєrio every normal person can see double when wakes up but it doesn’t become crossed just u can see double with half opened eyes
I have a cross i when I was born
What a horrifying thing to happen to such a sweet girl
wait that isn't normal?
I have crossed eyes too and I thought that I was the only one who saw this
WHATS LAZY EYE
it's scary cause I got one just two days ago. I got covid 19 though. dunno if it's related.
I have Nystagmus
She's so cute
She is cute and brave:-)
I love it
I have a lazy eye :(
I feel sorry for you
Scared
I have a brain tumor
I am so sorry for that 😐😐😐😐
I broke my finger
But it's okay
I broke my nail
I hope that you’ll be ok 😞😢
Internal strabismus can be treated with oriental medicine without the need for surgical intervention
My pupils are each up in the corner of my eyes
Not
Am I the only 2019 person here?
_pastel Angel am I the only 2020 person here?
May 2020 here
I have a lazy eye
I have no confidence because of my left eye
Mahlet Haile me too :(
the girl is so cute
Red
I was born cross eyed
I have short term memory loss
Dylaan McEwen really?!
I like to go on youtube as well
she is still pretty
prasb Janet Wood but I don’t understand where there are crossed eyes they seem normally
Yeah I have crossed eyes and when you do it you see two every thing ya know lol
This is not my account btw :3
I have a massive scar across my left eye because I was slashed with a knife by a school bully in 8th grade he was sent to prison for 19 years
I can do that on purpose when I can move on eye also it’s on my channel
Blue jacket Kid it’s normal
Im cross-eyed
But I have good glasses
EthanIsPlayinYT your names Ethan
I have a lazy eye but I control it
Hii I too have a lazy eye which sucks it would made my day if you could plz tell me how do you control it because it would help me a lot
Am I the only 2020 comment here?
spell cross 3 times :cross :cross :crozz
I have lazy eye
I do to
I have it too.
Me too and I am thinking about surgery but I'm wondering if it will really work or if they will mess up and make me completely blind. I don't want to risk being blind and never seeing again. I just found out yesterday that people who have crossed eyes can do surgery to fix them and I was wondering if my lazy eye could be fixed too by surgery.
Missy I got surgery 2 months ago and I now have no lazy eye and my vision is better too! I only need reading glasses. You should do surgery of you can. It's totally worth it.
Oh ok. Damn you're so lucky!
Steve smith's daughter😀
I’m sorry but I looked at the comments and the most liked comment is I have crippling depression
Hey, said Rory you had to go through this but try being born like that