I am dying. Joseph got glasses this week and they are sooooo bloody adorable. I can't even deal.
He has had a slightly lazy eye for quite some time, visible particularly when he was tired or distracted. I shrugged it off as it wasn't an "all the time" thing, but when I took some photos of him recently and it was noticeable yet again, I thought I had better do something about it and made him an appointment at the local optometrist. They were awesome and I am really glad I followed my mum intuition and looked into it.
He does indeed have a lazy eye, his left, and his right eye had just been doing everything. His eyes were working perfectly well, he had great eyesight, out of one eye. When they tested them singularly, all he could see from his left was a big old blur. He needs to wear his glasses full time for three month at which time they will reassess to see what kind of difference the glasses are making - and we made need to patch his good eye to allow the other one to be strengthened and catch up over a period of time. That's great news, totally fixable, no long term issues.
The hardest part was finding a pair of glasses that fit his face. He doesn't have a kid sized face, so none of the kids ones were working for him - there was some tween ones, but there was only two that actually fitted his face and both of them were a bit meh - and were $149 and $199. Eek. We had resigned ourselves that we were just going to have to go with something that was average, until Doug found these "slim fit" adult ones in their "affordable" section for $39 - that included the lenses!!! I couldn't even believe it! PLUS, they looked absolutely adorable on him. Perfection!
He asked every single day after they were ordered how long it would be until they arrived - and when they did, he was thrilled to pieces. He LOVES them and doesn't even want to take them off. Talk about winning! Thank you Aunty Dom for being his favourite human and being a glasses wearer. Made my life so damn easy. ❤
