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Glasses

Little Obi-Wan turned 2 today, but we are waiting to celebrate his birthday until this weekend. He doesn't know any better, so why not? Unfortunately, we've noticed for the past few weeks that his right eye has been turning in a bit, almost so that he looks cross-eyed sometimes. So we took him yesterday to a doctor to get him checked out.

The gave him some drops to dilate his eyes, and then after a 30 minute wait, it took the doc about 10 seconds to diagnose him with farsightedness. I'm not sure quite how he did this, but he shined a light at Ben's eye and held up various lenses in front (perhaps until he could see the back of the retina in focus?) until he found one he liked and then wrote the little guy an eyeglasses prescription.

He says once Ben isn't straining to focus, his eye won't turn in anymore, and he said it is normal for kids to grow out of this condition by the time they are teenagers when it does happen. We looked around a bit tonight for glasses, but the place we really wanted to go was closed early today, so we'll try to go tomorrow at lunchtime and get something. How will we get Ben to wear them is another story.

It could've been a lot worse. If they had had to do surgery to correct his eye muscles or, worse, if it were some kind of tumor ... well, let's just say I'm glad it is only glasses. As far as I'm concerned that's the best possible outcome given his symptoms.

Posted by Observer at May 14, 2008 10:45 PM