The Eyes Say It All
Today has been one of those lazy days. I have those quite often, in case you don't notice.
The girls are out of school so we went shopping, of course. Then it was off to the eye doctor for me and Ryan. We just see an optometrist. Kyra has to see an opthamologist because she has medical reasons for not seeing well while Ryan and I both just have astigmatism. My prescription increased and he even asked me if I wanted old people glasses bifocals. Uh, no thanks. So I went with the single vision glasses. I did that last time, too, and wore the glasses like once or twice and gave up because they sucked. I'm not expecting much better this time.
So Kyra goes in to see her doctor on Friday. I'm more than a little concerned because the vision in her right eye is falling off significantly each year and last year she was almost legally blind in that eye. She says she can't even distinguish numbers at all on her oversized digital clock without her glasses. I don't mean that she can't tell which number it IS, I mean that she can't even tell if it's a letter, number or a symbol... anything. The right eye's optical nerve didn't develop all the way (secondary to the left-hemiplegia) but the hemiplegia effects the MUSCLES of the left eye, so she got jacked in that category, too. Poor kid. The more she grows the more obvious her condition becomes. The left side of her body is significantly smaller than the right, even when you're just looking at her face. Her arm, hand, leg and foot are smaller/shorter on the left (the arm and foot are smaller due to decreased weight bearing).
The doctors told us back when she was 5 or 6 that many of the things wouldn't change with her until she became conscious of other kids teasing her. I guess that would have worked if she noticed other people, but she is SO socially displaced that she just doesn't notice much about people unless you point it out to her. She's going to be a freshman next year and I really worry about her. The things the kids already say to her are atrocious but thankfully she doesn't know what alot of it means. She is SO book smart but as with many, she has a serious lack of common sense or street smarts. I guess only time will tell.