As we are bombarded with Back to School advertisements, I think back to a year ago when CJ was all excited to be starting Kindergarten. Finally he would get to go on the school bus like his big sister. He was even excited about going to the doctor little did he know his excitement would soon turn to tears from vaccinations. But something else came to light as he was getting his Kindergarten physical. He was having trouble seeing the Eye chart. At first I thought it could be all the nurse’s walking in front of him as he tried to make out the shapes or the impatient nurse trying to administer the exam. Considering both my daughter and I wear glasses, I decided to take him to the eye doctor. Better safe than sorry.
We soon learned that CJ has Amlyopia or commonly known as “Lazy Eye”. I have a cousin who has a severe lazy eye but I never really noticed it on CJ until the Optometrist pointed it out. Then I noticed it all the time. The Optometrist recommended a pair of glasses for CJ, an Eye Patch and some Vision Therapy.
While doing my research on Vision Therapy and eye patches, I learned that traditional eye patches are devices that are taped over the child’s good eye. And can sometimes be difficult to remove because of the adhesive. I thought to myself there has got to be a better product out there. Because as a Mother I know, that if there is pain involved, the child is not going to be too willing to wear it.
So I kept searching through countless pages on the Internet. Page after page held the same type of traditional eye patches. Until I came upon Anissa’s Fun Patches. A Grandparent invented a unique but simple eye patch for her Granddaughter, Anissa. This eye patch slips over the arm of the glasses and onto the nose piece to block the vision in the good eye. No adhesive is needed whatsoever. Credit Card in hand I order a five patches. I was quite pleased with the product. And they even sent CJ a Christmas card and a Free eye patch in December.
There are days when I still have to fight CJ to wear his patch, but this is an easier battle than what I would have been fighting had he had to wear the traditional eye patch. And here is the puzzle we completed tonight as part of his Vision Therapy.
