Princess is a smart little girl. She is active and happy and such a girlie-girl. Last Tuesday we went to the eye doctor for her six month check up. She gets the dubious honor of going every six months to the eye doctor.
I just finally got around to getting a copy of her prescription. You know it is not a good sign when the new eye doctor (like the first eye doctor from April) asks, "Was you daughter born pre-mature?" Nope, she was full-term.
I had a better chance to interrogate this eye doctor than the other. He was a lot nicer and a lot more friendlier. Apparently Princess has very large eyes for the ripe old age of 3 1/2. She has both myopia (near-sightedness) and astigmatisms. The previous eye doctor said that she has probably had eye problems since she was a few weeks old.
We got our first set of glasses in May (it took a while to find some frames). The prescription was not full-strength then. So now she is going to get the full strength lens.
We would of had them by now, but there was a little goof and the lenses company cannot find the order. So they have been reordered with a rush added to them. I started laughing when the local tech told me over the phone. Which of course shocked her and she said that that had never happened to her before (which I am sure is true). I keep laughing anyway and told her that stuff always happens to me. Hopefully Princess will get her new lenses on Friday.
So her new prescription is:
OD: -5.25 sph, -1.50 cyl, 110 axis
OS: -5.50 sph, -2.00 cyl, 070 axis
So does that make sense to you? Didn't think so. It did not make much sense to me either. So I went to the Little Four Eyes site and found a link that broke it down into simpler terms. I also visited the link to Wolfram Alpha that described how far she can see.
Prescription Translation:
Princess' left eye is moderately near-sighted, with a moderate astigmatism. The left eye can see up to 0.55 feet without blurriness. Princess' right eye is moderately near-sighted, with a severe astigmatism. The right eye can see up to 0.50 feet without blurriness.
Sort of scary that a child's eye sight can be that bad. The fact that it will get much worse as she grows is even more frightening. The first doctor said that she would need bifocals by the time she is in kindergarten, so we will eventually see if the second doctor agrees. For the time being, we will have to keep an eye on Princess and hope for the best.
Wow!
ReplyDeleteCrazy, huh?
DeleteThat is wow indeed. Did they say her eyesight will continue to worsen? What's the reason for it if she wasn't born premature?
ReplyDeleteYes, her eyesight will worse. As she grows her eyes will grow too and her myopia will worsen. The first eye doctor we saw said it could get as bad as -9.00 by the time she is a teenager. With the astigmatism, I am not sure if it will worsen or improve over time. I know that my myopia and astigmatism have improved a bit as an adult (since my son was born), but everyone is different.
DeleteAs the to cause, most myopia and astigmatism is inherited through at least one of the parents. Diabetes can be a factor in the severity of myopia, so we may check with our pediatrician to see if may be we should test our daughter for diabetes. I found a site that listed over 25 medical conditions that can cause myopia. But since I know how inaccurate the internet can be at times. I will leave that in the hands of our pediatrician to decide if something is wrong.
Oh Jenny! Bless her heart! I think that she is beautiful with those tiny glasses on! Is there anything the doctors could do to help them or reverse the damage?
ReplyDeleteThank you. As to reversing the damage, it is really wait and see. We will be going every six months to have her eyes checked. If the glasses stabilize her sight, then that will be the route we go. If her eye sight continues to worsen, the doctor may recommend another route.
DeleteI know from most information that I have read that the human eye does not mature until around age 21. That is why they usually wait until that age for Lasik surgery.
I am sure that at her age they will not make any rash decisions and surgery will probably be a last resort if other methods fail to work. They may want to have a certain numbers of appointments under her belt first to use as a predictor for the future of her eye sight.
I am sure that God has a plan. We will just have to wait, pray, and see what happens along the way.