little four eyes

One look at the doctor and we knew that we were good hands. The best part was despite his illness, our son co operated with the doctor very well. All the tests. I was reading through one of the posts by Ann Z about how it will be a good idea to take pictures of the child with the squint. But we did not know that and the doctor indeed asked to see such a picture. You know what, there were none. None at all. All the hundreds of pictures that we took of our son a week until the squint did not have him squinting. My son poses brilliantly for a camera and being our first born we photograph him a lot. Since the technology is so fast now, we were able to show pictures on the cell phone. Many many of them. The doctor agreed that the eyesight was recent. So after many hours of waiting and the tests, the doctor informed us that our son has a case of Hypermetropia and of a high power. When he said high power we thought it will be +2 or +3 but it was +6. We were shocked. My husband wears glasses of -.25 each and I don not have any glasses. Our parents got their glasses in their 40s mostly for reading. We could not comprehend how much our son was affected. The squint was the result of his eyesight. He will have to wear glasses for a while ( how long is that “a while” I cannot guess ). I asked him how the eyes could have been affected so much in such a short time. He could only venture some guesses since it’s got nothign to do with hereditary a large portion of it could be weakness. And my son was getting sick every 10 days. In the 2 years he has been on this earth, I breast-fed him for a year and he never got so much as a cold ( not lying to my self ) and then we lived in California for the next 6 months and the weather suited him. He weaned off me without any trouble and got a cold just once. We came back to India this August and he started falling sick. I thought it was awful as he was born a Hyderabadi( ppl born in Hyderabad ) and how come the weather played havoc with his well being?? It was not fair

Satya

So coming back to the present day, its been less than a month since his new glasses and he wears them for better part of the day. I took some pictures of my baby in glasses and they are available for viewing at
http://picasaweb.google.com/vempati.satya/FourEyedWonder?authkey=bcvms-1BCqA#
I also took a picture of him without glasses to see if the glasses were doing any good and I think they are. When I focused the light in his eye, he did not squint. http://picasaweb.google.com/vempati.satya/FourEyedWonder?authkey=bcvms-1BCqA#5288201944913013410

In India, some people of the traditional mindset say that a squint in a child is lucky. Esp a right squint for a male child. But being a modern and practical parents we draw the line where necessary. A kid in glasses is laughed at and my son being little and wearing glasses does attract attention on the roads. Sometimes its nice and sometimes its unwanted. But I really do not care about the people on the roads. My son has adjusted well and we have adjusted along with him. We put our faiths in our doctor and right now we are concentrating in building up our son’s health. It going to take
a long time and lots of patience but we are up for it. The dark hair, big eyes and now the glasses. A miniature Harry Potter in our home.