little four eyes

A very Happy New Year to you all.

My name is Suhasini Vempati and I live in Hyderabad, India. When my 2 year old son, Satya, was prescribed glasses to treat an intermittent squint in his right eye due to farsightedness, I feverishly started scouring the net for useful information to help me understand what my son is going through. I came across “little four eyes” and just loved it. It helped me deal with the mom’s guilt that surfaces first when your kid for example is ill. Something’s not right…
Here’s my baby’s story- We noticed his squint in the first week of December. He was recovering from another bout of cold and fever. He was sitting next to me and we were playing when all of a sudden his right eye turned inwards. It was just for a second and I thought I imagined it. He did it again a few minutes later and when I told him off he started giggling. See, he could control his squint so I assumed he was doing it on purpose. Everyone in my family thought the same thing. But a week went by and when it did not go away I took him to his paediatrician who asked me to see an Opthamologist right away. We have a great eye hospital in our city and a dept. which treats paediatric squints. So we rushed and took an appointment 3 days later ( the earliest ).

My son fell ill again and we my husband wondered if he will be healthy enough to get through the exams. We then decided that by the time we are ready to sit in the car if Satya does not have any fever, we will go through. I was desperate to know what is going on. Luckily, our son cooled down ( he had 103.7F in the night ) and we took him straight to the doctor in his night clothes ( a light shirt and diaper ). Part 2 follows…