As is common, I'm sure, among children whose parents both wear glasses, my darling little angel-monkey loves to put on her parents' glasses, or Mr. Potato Head's glasses, or anything that looks like it might be glasses, and pretend they are hers.
As of yesterday, she no longer needs to pretend.
Several weeks ago, we had her evaluated for preschool placement, and one of the tests they did was a very rudimentary vision exam. Whereas she did fine when using both eyes and when using only her left eye, her right eye was extremely weak. Weak enough that the examiner couldn't say exactly what Cordy's vision in that eye was, so she simply put down 20/80 and advised us to see an optometrist.
Tammy and I happen to have a very good optometrist who also examines children, so we scheduled an appointment with him. Two weeks ago I took my princess to see him. He confirmed that her left eye was strong and needed scarcely any correction, if any at all. However, he could not determine anything better than 20/200 in her right-eye.
Based on refraction and other tests he was able to do on his end, he had a good idea of what prescription she needed, but because she was tired and angry from the dilation drops he'd given her earlier, she wasn't in the mood to cooperate with the actual "look at the picture and tell us what you see" exam any more.
Yesterday, we picked up the new glasses, and she seems to like them. Wore them all day yesterday without a complaint (until just before bed - she came to me and said, "Gasses off now?" To which I replied, "Of course, but we have to brush our teeth and put on pajamas, now").
She wasn't happy about that. But she agreed, eventually, and she also agreed to wear the glasses again today.
Another thing: She is supposed to wear an eye patch over her strong eye for 2 hours each day, to help force her weak eye to work, and strengthen. She has a cute pink eye-patch for that. I'll try to get a picture of it and post it later.
Anyway, that's what's up for now.
