Bryson just got glasses, and boy did he need them. When we went for his physical before the beginning of the preschool year, the doctor doing the vision screening couldn't tell if it was because he didn't know his shapes and letters well enough or if the fish really looked like a duck to him because of vision problems. Well apparently, the fish DID look like a duck because we just got the results from spring vision screening at school with a referral to a pediatric ophthalmologist for "high far-sightedness." It makes sense now because he sometimes has difficulty seeing things right in front of him like the board at school and has been having trouble reading because he said "it's hard to look at the words," and there are multiple vision problems in both sides of our family, but I had no idea his eyes were in such bad shape.
Upon our visit to the ophthalmologist, we found out that without glasses, the poor kid is nearly blind.
Bryson is EXTREMELY far-sighted, so much so that he was the most "high far-sighted" child the doctor had ever seen --
though she was relatively young. She gave him the maximum prescription he can have at his age (+4 in each eye . .. he was supposed to have 6 in each eye, but the doctor said she'd try these and work up to those if necessary). He has some vision loss in both eyes after trying to focus his eyes for so long without vision correction, but hopefully he's young enough and we caught it in time that he can regain some of that vision back with the use of glasses. If not, there may be some eye therapy in his future. It almost made me cry when he put on his glasses and exclaimed, "Mom, I can see. Everything looked little, and now it's big!" Here's to hoping his cute little glasses solve the problem and he gets used to wearing them 24/7 here soon and that he doesn't have too many headaches with them (literal and figurative ones). I think he looks quite sophisticated and handsome in his new glasses.
