Andrew's New Specs

During Andrew's 4 year old check up at the pediatrician's office they tested his eyesight by having him name certain objects on cards that were held a short distance away. He told the nurse the correct name for each object on each card. Then the nurse had Andrew cover his right eye and had him look through these binoculars to name the objects through the binocular view. Andrew did great with his left eye, however, when the nurse had him switch to cover then the left eye to test the right eye Andrew kept trying to peak. So I then proceeded to cover his left eye with my hand and he kept saying that he couldn't see and kept trying to move my hand off of his good eye to peak to tell the nurse the correct answer. She had me bring him back to have him retested in a couple of months again, however, we ended up with the same response.

When I brought him home and I shared this with Robert he had Andrew sit on his lap and tell him what picture was showing on the laptop computer screen with Robert's hand over Andrew's left (good) to test his right eye and we got the same response, "I can't see, I can't see" and then kept trying to push Robert's hand away from covering his eye.

Our pediatrician ended up referring us to a specialist to have a closer more indepth look to see what is going on with Andrew's eye. Come to find out that there is no damage to the eye, he's just not using it. The doctor said that it's not considered a lazy eye since there is no drifting of the eye he's just not using it and that Andrew is nearsighted in his right eye. The doctor perscribed for me to patch his left eye for 6 hours a day starting today to force him to force him to use his right eye along with perscribing glasses for him with a light perscription.

Boy oh boy, the first few days with using the patch was frustrating for all of us. Andrew would let me put it on with no problem and then the minute I let him out of my sight Andrew would take it off. So back and forth, back and forth we went with putting it and a few minutes later him taking it off. I finally realized that I have to keep him busy and his hands busy to be successful with keeping the patch. So since he loves to help out making food items in the kitchen I had him make some brownies, and then we made some banana bread. He loves to pour the ingredients into the bowl and stir....as well as lick the bowl.