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7:50:00 AM EDT
~ Friday ~
Jeepers! She says to self as she prepares to type. She has left the speakers on, on the computer and someone on the buddy list just opened the door and of course she was startled. That'll teach me, huh? *smiles*
Thought I would make a quick post regarding Landry. He did well with the eye examination on Wed. The doctor he was evaluated by is a Pediatric Opthalmologist. My daughter says he was great with Landry...and Landry's Momma. Very important, indeed. *winks*
The diagnoisis is: Anisometropia: The condition in which the two eyes have an unequal refractive power. One eye may be myopic (nearsighted) and the other hyperopic (farsighted).
Anisometropia is a serious concern in newborns and young children because it can lead to amblyopia [he has this too] (impaired vision in one eye). With a major degree of anisometropia, the brain is not able to reconcile the difference in images coming from the two eyes. It develops a preference for the image coming from one eye and suppresses the image from the other eye and, in time, the brain loses the ability to "see" the image from that eye.
Landry was born with this condition. The doctors and nurses who treat newborns are not trained to recognize the conditions. As sight like this was all Landry has ever known, he didn't make complaints. He didn't know there was a problem until he went through eye screening last week. The vision in his Right eye is so bad that he is considered "legally blind" in that eye [without glasses].
He will have to wear glasses...should be getting them next Tues. He will have to wear a patch over the "good eye" for 8 hrs., 4 days per week for 2 weeks. Glasses and/or contacts will always be a part of his life, unless and until, science finds a better way.
Blessings all!
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Like son3, we did not discover til just last year in first grade that he could never see... he is just now still at only half prescription and his eyes are magnified when we look at him through the glasses... and he has a lazy eye so he is supposed to wear a patch on his right eye a half hour a day to force the left eye to work too, which we have been very bad at the last few months and need to get back on the routine of the patch... any work they do on the eyes before they turn 8yrs old is best...
Linda :)
4/27/08 12:41 PM
I'm pushing for all the younger grands to be seen for these eye conditions. The ones that are in school, I don't worry about so much, as any problems they may have should be more readily evident. I know that's not always the truth; yet, I know daughters 1 and 2 will be dogged about getting the exams and doing whatever is required for their kids.
Unfortunately, daughter 3 and my son...like to drag butt. I lost patience with the son on Friday and gave him 2 options make the appts. for the baby or Mom [me]is coming to get baby and taking her to the doctors here [where I live]. I HATE being like that. Yet, I hate worse...2 young, inexperienced parents putting doctors check-ups off for their own convenience. That doesn't sit well with me. One's hearing or eyesight does not regenerate...if it's damaged or lost, those changes are permanent, they're "lifers".
Blessings,
Cindy