Keira's Eye Appointment

Keira had her eye appointment today. She failed her kindergarten eye exam (vision) part of the physical. She had to see the same specialist I saw for my eye migraines (ocular migraines).

When I made the appointment they told me it would only last an hour. So, I was thinking we would be done by 10:30. My best friend watched the other kids for me so I could spend more time with the specialist, asking questions, filling out paper work and answering questions without being distracted. ;) I texted her at 10:20 (her appt. was at 9:30) and said we were going to be another hour. uggg! It lasted from 9:30-11:30 a.m. After picking out glasses frames and setting up another appointment we got into the truck at 11:43 a.m.

She had an eye exam with the nurse, this lasted about 40 minutes. When the nurse was done, she saw the specialist, this lasted about 10 minutes. He said he needed to dilate her eyes and the drops would take 20-25 minutes to start working. We waited in the waiting room for 20 minutes.

He finally came back to get us, he did her exam and said that her right eye goes in a little (he used some other technical terms ;) ) Her right eye is not as strong as her left eye because when her right eye does its thing, the left eye compensates for that eye, making the left eye twice as strong. She does need glasses only to make the right eye stronger (not to correct the inward movement it does). He is not worried about the eye going in because it doesn't do it very often. He is more worried about the seeing part.

So, of course, Keira could see fine until the nurse told me that her right eye is not as clear as her left eye. That's when Keira started saying she couldn't see any letters with her right eye.

Here are the numbers for those of you who understand optometry talk ;)

Right eye at distance 20/50
Left eye at distance   20/25
Right eye at near       20/30
Left eye at near         20/25

She failed the Amblyopia part of the test or lazy eye.

We told her a couple weeks ago that she might need glasses when we found out she failed the vision part of her physical and she cried because she didn't want glasses. I told her that her cousin (boy) had glasses and that some kids have to have them. She didn't care, she still didn't want them. She saw a cute little girl at her cheer class with glasses and they were pink. She talked to the girl and is now excited to get glasses. It was hard looking at glasses frames, let her pick out what she wanted, then have to tell her we can't have them for a couple weeks because they have to put the "prescription" into the glasses for her to see. They already had glass in them though, so she didn't understand that. She was fine once we got into the truck and started talking about it.