Day 3 - cont.

After receiving the scan this morning, Rod and I had a lot to process. Fortunately, between the 3rd and 4th treatment today, we had some great conversation with Dr. Otte as well as with the 18 year old boy receiving treatment and his mom. We had an opportunity to ask more questions about Dr. Otte's medical practice, questions related to treatment, and more explanation of the scans.

Like I said in the earlier post from today, it was hard to tell if there really has been improvement in Rod's vision scans from Monday-Wednesday. Without hesitation Dr. Otte willingly compared his initial scan to the scan we had done in Austin last Friday. He showed us how they were very similar and where, exactly, the improvement has been in Rod's eyes (although it still seems pretty subjective to me). What I left that conversation with was a better gut feeling about the validity of Microacupuncture and Dr. Otte. Also, upon our request, he emailed all his eye tests for Rod to Rod's opthamologist in Austin. We wanted her opinion on the scans (though Rod only jus met her for the first time last week). We wanted both doctors to weigh in on each other's work - just out of curiosity. The doctor in Austin couldn't tell much improvement between the two scans taken here. However, Dr. Otte didn't say there was much improvement, just that there was some improvement. The doctor in Austin also said it is more difficult to compare scans from two different machines.

Taking all of this into account, Rod has decided to forgo another scan from Dr. Otte in the morning and just have three treatments regardless. Then, because of the weather, we will return to Dayton tomorrow night, instead of Friday morning before heading home Friday afternoon. Then in 2-3 weeks (Dr. Otte suggests waiting a period of time before seeing the eye doctor to allow the eyes time to "flush it all out". Which I guess means the results of  the microacupuncture continue to settle for a while. In any case, Rod will see the opthamologist in Austin and have her do an "after" scan, with the same machine, to compare to the "before" scan she took. That should give us a better idea of the effects of the microacupuncture for Rod.

We are not ruling out the possibility of returning again in the future, unless Dr. Otte tells us it is not worth the trouble.