I feel like such a bad mother!! The diagnosis for Alex's current eye problem is still steming from the left eye turning in. I had no idea!!! Let me explain. When Alex was about 5, I noticed that occassionally, his left eye would turn in...almost like a lazy eye. We saught the help of a pediatric eye specialist. They "fixed" him up with a special pair of glasses. The glasses would help strengthen the weak left eye. After wearing them for awhile, we were informed that all looked good and no real need to keep wearing the glasses. I thought all was well...we dodged the eye surgery. Fast forward to present day...if you look at Alex, you can't really see it...but the doctor showed me...his left eye is still turning in a little. Thus, the "blurry" vision Alex has been experiencing. I told Alex before his appointment today to be very honest with the doctor. Well, the doctor asked him if he was seeing double. Alex said "yes". The doctor asked how often...a little or a lot? Alex's response...A LOT!! What?!? This is news to me. Alex has not complained of this problem to me. A few weeks ago was the first mention of things being a little blurry at school. As the doctor and I talked, things were clicking into place...Alex has had a difficult time reading. We asked him numerous times if he could see the words because he would shift the book back and forth while reading. I asked the doctor if the left eye turning in could affect his reading. "ABSOLUTELY!" he said. So yeah, I totally feel like a bad Mom!! The doctor recommended we try vision therapy before going back to the specialist he saw 4 years ago. So I am going to contact this new doctor and hopefully get things started soon. I feel that if we can get a jump on this, maybe it will help him with the reading. Then, we can tackle whether or not Alex really has dyslexia. I have been on the fence about this for so long because it just didn't feel right to me...maybe the eyes have been the problem the whole time. I am so glad we found out about this now. I am going to go research vision therapy to see if there is anything we can do at home to help in addition to seeing the therapist. Wish us luck, if vision therapy doesn't help, the other option is surgery.
Don't feel bad. We can't possibly see everything, especially when our kids don't really want us to see it. I remember getting a phone call while Anthony was out of town. Frank asked me if I had seen Anthony's finger, he could hardly play hockey. I knew he had an ingrown fingernail but I didn't know how bad it was. His finger had green pus in it because it was infected so bad. So yeah, I'm a bad mom too. Another time Frankie slid into 2nd base and hurt his arm. I didn't really think it was broken but I decided to take him to the doctor because he needed a shot for something anyway. It ended up, he had a broken arm. So yeah, I'm a bad mom. We can only do the best at any given time. Nobody trains you for all this stuff. We're all just trying to be the best mom's we can be.
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