We discovered Micah needed glasses when he was five. One eye was severely near sighted (so bad that you could call it far sighted), and the other eye saw perfectly. An inherited disorder, but correctable, Micah started patching his good eye, so that his bad eye would "learn" how to see better. We were told that he had until he was 8 years old to teach this eye to work better, at which point, the eye would permantly remain at that prescription.
In the summer we learned that he eye was done adjusting. The eye doctor informed us that Micah's eyes were no longer malleable. He would still need a very strong prescription in his left eye. This was sad news for Micah. He would forever have a one horrible eye (can't even be corrected to 20/20) and one good eye. At least he had a good one, I guess. Although, he would forever have problems with depth perception (there goes his professional sports career), and probably would never be able to enjoy a 3-D movie.....
Yesterday, we got more bad news. For the last few years we have been ordering our eye glasses off of the internet. Until now, I have be very pleased with the quality and service of the website. Last week, however, Micah failed an eye exam at school, WITH his glasses. He good eye registered at 20/200 and his bad eye 20/70. Yikes! I brought his glasses to the clinic and we discovered that Micah has been wearing the wrong prescription for the last month and a half! The prescpription was so incorrect, that it appears that the glasses were made for an entirely different kid.
Micah has been blind for the last six weeks, and another kid is walking into walls somewhere in the world.
I feel guilty, of course, how else does a mom respond. Today we are going to order a new pair from the eye glass store on post.
8 years ago
4 comments:
It hurts my eyes to think of wearing the wrong prescription for that long, but how would you possibly know?! Hope the new glasses are made with no drama.:)
oooh, poor guy. :-( How were you to know tho? Good luck
oh no! poor micah! but at least i know calvin will have someone to sit in the sidelines with to watch others achieve sports greatness. :)
No worries, my sister was sooo far sighted, that she could hardly see anything at all.Because she is the 3rd of 5, my mom paid no mind to the fact that she could not see a thing until her 1st grade teacher sent her for an eye exam. Even then, it took almost 3 years to get the perscription right. She wore "bottle cap" glasses until her Lasik Surgery last year... We still call her Velma,because w/o her glasses, she's still walks into walls.
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