Glasses

Sometime back in January I noticed Mason's right eye crossing, a lot. It started to get worse really quickly so I called his pediatrician and she referred him to a Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Gordon Smith. He was very nice and is definitely good with kids. It was a very long appointment, at least 2 ours. They checked his eyes and then dilated them and checked them again. He did good and was just really bored by the end. The Doctor concluded that he has Accommodative Esotropia which is basically that he is farsighted which means he can't see near and because he is struggling so hard to see it causes his eye to turn inward to accommodate. He has a +6 in one eye and a +5.5 in the other which I guess is pretty high. I left the office feeling completely in shock. I had no idea that glasses would even be a possible solution. Once we got into the car I sat and cried for a few minutes just trying to take it all in. Having to accept that your 2.5 year old needs glasses is really hard especially when no one in your family has eye trouble.

I wanted a second opinion so I took him to my eye Dr. who treated and did surgery on my brother when he was little for Strabisimus. Dr. Cohn did all the same things that the other specialist did and came out with the same diagnosis with a slightly different prescription but the same none the less. He was given to information about Mason's previous visit to the other Dr. so when he said the same thing I finally had to accept that my little baby was going to be getting glasses.

Once I got online and went to a few stores I realized that he didn't have to have really ugly or dorky glasses. They actually make some pretty cute stuff for toddlers. We found a place in Newark that had a lot of toddler glasses and ordered a pair from them. During this whole time I decided that I would start wearing my glasses on a regular basis so he could see them and hopefully would like his own. When we got his glasses he took to them immediately, he wouldn't wear them all day at first but after a week or two he started asking for them and he just loves them.

Now when I look back at pictures of him without his glasses I find that he looks weird without them. It was a very trying experience but I am just so happy that he can see :)






<3 Krista