A few months ago, a friend from our ward asked if we'd ever had Kyle's eyes checked and said that he noticed one of his eyes drifting to cross eyed. I half-heartedly watched his eyes, but didn't think too much of it. On Thanksgiving, my sister-in-law asked if we'd ever had Kyle's eyes checked and said that she noticed one of his eyes going cross eyed. Starting then, I made a conscious effort to watch his eyes and decided we should really get him to an eye doctor. Russ had an appointment with his eye doctor at the 1st of the year, so he added a check up for Kyle too. So, in addition to having weakness in his left eye(hence one eye going cross eyed), he is far sighted. He was prescribed glasses and also eye patches that we are supposed to use on his strong eye for 2 hours a day to strengthen the weaker eye. I was worried about him keeping them on, but we picked them up this morning and he has worn them all day. He takes them off occasionally to look at them, but puts them back on & even wore them all through preschool after he initially told me he wasn't going to. If I ask him if he can see better, he smiles and nods his head. His preschool teacher said that she could see an obvious change with the glasses-- better work, more excited, more vocal. Apparently, the world has opened up now that he can see. Josh & Neil have been very excited and concerned with this whole process. They were all anxious to see him in his new glasses.
So, this leaves Russ & me to wonder... are we bad parents for not having a clue anything was wrong until others noticed it? His preschool teacher also asked if we'd ever had his eyes checked. I have no idea at what point we would have realized there was a problem if no one else had pointed it out to us. All of the people that pointed it out to us had family members with the same issue, so I guess I will now be on the lookout for little ones who cross their eyes. I'm glad we got him started with the glasses now and can keep on it as he grows and his vision develops!
Getting his glasses adjusted(you can see pretty clearly the one eye going cross eyed here)
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My sister had a lazy eye that was identified around 1st grade. In retrospect, you can look at old photos and clearly see the drift, but my parents didn't notice anything amiss until she started walking into walls. You are not alone!
I patched when I was little too for amblyopia. Though I never went cross-eyed, I had horrible depth perception and would often turn my head when I'd read to only use the stronger eye. My parents never noticed, a nurse caught it at a mandatory eye screening in 1st grade. You and Russ are wonderful parents.
You are great parents. Kyle looks very happy in his glasses...just be grateful that he is doing so well now!
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