Eyes - The Galley

Seeing this week's galley prompt made me join in the fun. I hope to do this more often! Petit Boy has got a lazy left eye, infact it's very bad for a little one of his age that he's been given an appointment to get some glasses specially made to help fix his sight. Because of this eye not working properly he is very badly long sighted, which means he can see far away but close up he has problems. It explains why he hates things close to his face so much! His dad not only has a lazy left eye but is also partly blind in it as well (Petit Boy isn't blind which is least some relief) and his Auntie and Nan also have a lazy eye too. There's different types of lazy eye. If the muscle isn't working right they usually can help with surgery. However most of the time surgery is just to help look "normal" and doesn't tend to fix the sight in that eye.



I wear glasses because I'm short sighted, meaning I can't see far away. Actually my sight is so bad anything past my nose is blurry for me, though it has been slowing down over the last few years and think its been getting better. I'm one of the few in my family who wear glasses all day as anyone else who uses glasses is only long sighted and thus wear them to read! Why not check out the Gallery or join in? You can find more blog posts on this week's theme over at Sticky Fingers.

Eye Test Results

As some of you will know Petit Boy has a squint in his left eye. In most of his photographs you can see that his left eye has gone inward whilst his right eye is fine. This has been cause for concern for a long time now and today we finally got to see someone who could tell us what on earth was going on and what can be done.

We got in half an hour early, which was a bonus because we got seen a few minutes after signing ourselves as being here. The lady checked his sight and then the nasty part happened... eye drops were put into both eyes. We needed to wait about 20 minutes for the eye drops to do their magic so the specialist consultant can look into his eyes and the drops will show under the light what exactly is wrong. During the wait we were told could wander around for a bit so we popped opposite the department to play on the children's wooden train.

Time flew by and now was told to see what was going on. Out came the lenses and lights and in came a nurse who had to help hold Petit Boy still. She held his head straight and I had to hold his arms down. You can probably guess how much a 19 month old toddler enjoy this... not a lot! He was fine when they checked his right eye, very calm infact. The moment they went to look into his left eye he was wriggling about and screaming. So after this we got the answer.... glasses. He's very long sighted (can't see things up close) and consultant said that's very strange as he's not even 2 years old yet and also it's worse than they tend to see in children who have this problem. Surgery won't be required but by the age of 5 years old if he's having problems in school (kids are mean) they are happy to fix the eye for cosmetic reasons.

So some time in 4-6 weeks we should be back in the hospital getting glass sorted out and then finally we shall be owners of some very little glasses. I'm relieved to have got some answers, now I just want the glasses to be sorted and hope for the best.