eye doctor hell

Just shoot me if I ever again think it's a good idea to take 3 kids to the eye doctor. The doctor's office is bad enough but to a specialist!!! Specialists are known for taking forever. We hung in there and did well until the end. We waited 45 minutes to be seen. The kids were great for that. We went back and Av went first. This was her first eye exam where they covered one eye and asked her to tell them what was on the chart with the pictures getting smaller each row. She did great. Then Camille went. He just looked in her eyes but she did great as well. Then back to the waiting room to get drops to dilate the eyes and wait for them to dilate. We got our drops as another kid went back to our room. That was fine. Then he came out and another kid was called back to our room. Oh my, that pushed us to our limits. By that time our eyes had been dilated 20 minutes and we had been there for 1.5 hours. We were all done. Then Av had to go to the bathroom (prob was a blessing in disguise that C was in a diaper). I opened the door to the back to see if we could use the bathroom. Of course they didn't have one so out of the office we had to go. So I had to drag 3 kids back through a crowded office running over toes trying to push my horrible snap and go. I was DONE at this point. The nurse had promised she would wait for us and not take any other kids back to see the Dr. After the bathroom we did get seen right away. Both of the girls have perfect vision as of now so that was great news!! We left the office at 3:20. Our appointment had been at 1:30. All and all I guess it was not that bad. E was perfect and fell asleep in his car seat half way through it all.