Remember the other day when I was telling you all of my woes and mentioned that these things tend to come in threes?
The third thing came.
About a month ago Lance mentioned that he thought Josh should go to the optometrist because he had seen him squinting and kind of going cross eyed when looking at things. I scoffed and thought he was being silly. I had never noticed Josh doing that and I'm his mother and I'm the one who's home with him all day. But then last Friday I noticed Josh squinting and looking cross eyed and generally having problems. Then he knocked over his drink for the 19th time that week and I figured Lance was on to something.
I asked Josh if he was having trouble seeing; were things fuzzy looking to him? No, he replied. But there are two plates and two cups. When I look at things there are two. The child was having double vision!
So today we trekked down to the optometrist and got Josh all checked out. Turns out that he's slightly near sighted. His cross eyedness (real word) ((not really)) and double vision was a result of his brain trying to compensate for his right eye's poor vision, and will be corrected with the glasses. I have to say he looks pretty cute in the frames he chose; pictures will definitely be posted as soon as he gets them in a few days.
While an eye appointment and glasses for Josh wasn't as expensive as a new washer or a new sewer pump, it was still more than I wanted to be spending right now. Let's just say that you could buy a lot of Happy Meals with the amount I spent on him!
Well, let's just hope and pray all of my big spending adventures are done for now. I don't think my wallet can take much more of this.
1 comment:
I'm glad that he's getting some glasses. Not to be a busybody, but as the voice of experience, I would recommend he follow up with a pediatric opthalmologist (probably will have to go to Riley), just because they are more in-depth than an optometrist. We had also noticed Andrew's eyes crossing for a while, but all of the eye docs brushed it off. Long story shorter, by the time we got to a pediatric opthalmologist, his brain had shut off communication to the crossing eye and he was legally blind in that eye by that point. Thankfully, it was reversible, but it took more than a year's work with patching, glasses, and two eye surgeries. So, when your wallet can handle it, you might consider a second opinion to make sure nothing else needs to happen--those are symptoms Andrew had with his strabismus.
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