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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad you are looking into Wilmer.  FYI, your pediatrician may be able to get you a quicker appointment with Repka.[/quote]

I can't imagine having a child with this disorder and not going to Wilmer to at least get second opinions, if not the complete repair.  It's only 45 minutes up the Interstate (or less if you can get an appointment at Green Spring Station), and the doctors there are THE BEST in the world.  If Dr. Repka isn't available, try to see Dr. David Guyton -- http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/employees/cvs/Guyton.html  I speak from first-hand experience (I was the patient and had adult strabismus surgery).  They treat you like royalty at Hopkins and the results speak for themselves.[/quote]

I have to second Dr. Guyton. He is one of the most knowledgeable and caring eye docs out there. I contacted him upon someone's recommendation, and he was very diligent with my eye exam. I have a feeling he is on a conservative side when it comes to new eye treatments, which I liked - often times you don't know what the long term consequences are and you can't reverse what's been done....Good luck![/quote]

10:49 here again...  The beauty of David Guyton is a) he's a wonderful doctor to deal with (he tends to run behind in his appointments, because/however when it's your turn, you will get the best possible service and an unsurpassed level of attention to you and nothing else), b) he knows his stuff perhaps better than anyone else in the world, and c) he has an artist's touch and can make the right judgment calls based on instinct and the experience of having done probably tens of thousands of surgeries, which is absolutely critical when you're talking about doing something like detaching a muscle from an eye, moving it over a couple of mm, and then stitching it back on again.

Remember when the US Airways pilot landed the plane in the Hudson River last year and everybody talked about how he was the perfect person to have been at the controls, because the slightest mistake in any number of parameters could have meant the difference between success and a much less pleasing outcome, and because only a handful of pilots in the world could have pulled the whole thing off the first time?  Well, that's the way David Guyton is when it comes to eye muscle surgery.[/quote]

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