Around Lilly’s third birthday, we started to notice that she ever-so-slightly went cross eyed when she was tired and looking far distances. Our nanny was the first to mention it to us, through a casual text that she sent while we were at work. I honestly likely would have brushed it off except that the […]
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We took Charlie for his first eye exam when he was 4-years-old, and the optometrist told us that glasses would be in his near future. Shortly thereafter in kindergarten when Charlie got a vision test in school, they sent home a letter asking us to take him to an optometrist. He got his first pair […]
It seems that I am just now recovering from the holiday craze – enough to have the mental capacity to recall and recount my son’s eye surgery. At the end of October, KJ had strabismus surgery to correct his esotropia. Historically, anticipation has always been much worse for me than the actual thing when it […]
Tomorrow is a big day. KJ was diagnosed with intermittent esotropia, a form of strabismus, at 6 months of age. I first noticed his eyes turning inward at 6 weeks, and we have been seeing a pediatric ophthalmologist since he turned 4 months old. Now I feel like we are old friends. Many moms (including […]
When my oldest son James started school this year and we really had to start pushing him to write more, we noticed a few things that lead us to our first optometrist visit. First, he was slightly behind where he should be for letter recognition and writing. Second he put his face very close to […]
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