Glasses

I wore glasses in 4th and 5th grade.  They had a sweet gold heart sticker in the bottom corner of one lens.  After that, I was good.  Until cell biology in college.  Dr. Papenfuss took that cell bio lab pretty serious and we all spent at least 10 or 12 hours a week looking through a microscope.  It taxed my poor little eyes.  I had to get glasses again and wore them throughout college.  When I graduated I stopped wearing them and life has been good.  Until a few months ago.

I kept getting headaches.  That is strange for me.  I normally get one headache a year.  Kendal brought home a paper from the school nurse saying she failed her vision screening at school.  I made an appointment for both of us a few days after Christmas.  Here is the result.

My sweet Kendal can't see very well.  I feel badly about that.  For 7 and a half years, she has not seen very much with her right eye.  It is 20/200.  Her left eye is perfect - 20/20.  Her right eye has not developed like it should have.  It is smaller, but we can't see that.  We just see a pretty blue eyeball.

Very soon Kendal's good eye will be patched over to make that bad eye grow and develop.  The doctor said we have a limited amount of time to do this since she is nearing 8 years old.  He hopes to get that 20/200 eye to around 20/30 or 20/40.  I sure hope so.

My headaches are gone.  I think glasses are completely annoying, but going to bed with a headache and waking up with a headache, and enduring a headache all day is much more annoying.  YIPPEE for modern medical knowledge!