Towards the end of the school year last year Garytt had a vision screening at school. His report showed he was borderline for astigmatism. Being that he wasn't on our vision insurance yet, I called the screening company to get more information. I definitely wanted to take him in as soon as possible if he was having trouble seeing but if they thought it could wait until January when we could get him on the vision insurance, that would be good. After speaking with them, they said they thought it would be fine to wait until January.
So, I made an appointment with my eye doctor for early January. I have to admit that these pictures are not up to my normal standards but I really thought we would just be in and out and it wouldn't even be a blog worthy experience...boy, was I surprised!
They started by showing him letters on the screen. He got a few wrong but I just thought he was nervous and didn't want to do his letters. After encouraging him and telling him it was no big deal just tell us what he was seeing, the tech looked at me and whispered, "I don't think he can see them." What?!
They switched to images. He called a Christmas tree a triangle and a stick figure of a person the letter A...wow, poor little guy really can't see!
Photo bomb courtesy of Westyn.
The eye doctor said Garytt has a pretty strong astigmatism and, obviously, would need glasses to correct it. They had a pretty limited selection of glasses in the office (and at pretty high prices). So, we headed out on the adventure of finding and trying on glasses.
After all the searching, we ended up getting two pairs from Sam's Club. (We definitely need a back up pair since he is a 4 year old boy!) We placed the order and two weeks later they arrived.
He was so cute when he put them on. Since all the glasses he tried on just had plain glass, I don't think he realized that when his real glasses came in the world would look so different. He put them on and looked at the floor and said, "Wow, that's a huge crack!" Hahaha...no, buddy, you can just see it now.
Here he is right after getting his first new pair of glasses. He looks so handsome and grown up in them!
He was really funny the first week or so after getting glasses. He hesitated to jump out of the van like normal since his vision was different. He also spent a good amount of time looking at something, then lifting his glasses up, putting them back down and giggling.
Overall, he has really adjusted well to wearing glasses!
