Naomi was born on May 11, 2009 via emergency C-Section after “crashing” with a dangerously slow heart beat following about 15 hours of an induced labor. She was diagnosed with Down syndrome at 9 days, and with a brain tumor at 7 weeks. The tumor was surgically removed, and she remains cancer free without radiation …
Naomi – Brain Tumor, Nystagmus, amblyopia and Poor Vision Read More »
Lucas was diagnosed at 6 months with accommodative esotropia and hyperopia with astigmatism. At 8 months old he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and microcephaly. He is now 15 months old and making amazing progress!
Wow! We can’t believe this project is coming to a close! (or maybe I should say it is just starting!) We are so excited and wanted to say thank you to all of you!! You guys are so amazing and we wouldn’t have been able to do this project without you! You all have amazing …
Hi my name is Chandler and I am 17 years old! I was born with bilateral congenital cataracts. The cataracts were so dense if they weren’t removed by the age of one, I would’ve been blind. I had my first surgery at 5 days old, and my second one at 12 days. As rare as …
Ashlynn was diagnosed with amblyopia in April of 2013. Amblyopia is a condition where the optic nerve poorly sends or fails to send any vision to the brain. After a length of time the brain can stop sending signals to the eye completely. So it was very crucial that we caught the condition when we …
How Mom and Dad found out I have PFV and the surgery My doctor, Dr. Chopra came to check me out after I was born, and noticed that I had a white spot on my pupil in my right eye. He was not sure why, he had never seen that before, he thought it would …
Jaxen- PFV, dense post-lenticular plaque and cataract Read More »
My wife and I never had glasses when we were kids. My eyes have deteriorated a little since then and I now where glasses but since neither of us wore them growing up we didn’t really know what to look for in our kids. When Ali was a toddler she used to stand about two …
I got glasses when I was in 6th grade. I vividly remember looking across the gym and being able to make out the faces of my friends. When I was 24 I had LASIK surgery. Waking up that Saturday morning being able to see was amazing. When I got pregnant with Carter I developed gestational …
Alexandra (Aly) age 19 months Aly’s journey to glasses started a little differently than most babies. Once in awhile we would notice her looking cross-eyed, but that was normal baby behavior. Aly was completely healthy for the first eight months of her life, but in July 2012, she had a seizure at daycare and was rushed …
I noticed something was wrong with Julia’s eye when she was 6 months old. Her right pupil looked like it was a “mirror” or had a weird reflection. My husband and I discussed it and I decided I didn’t want to take her to the pediatrician because I figured I was overreacting. So I waited …
Poppy was born two weeks early weighing a healthy 7lb 2oz on the last day of September 2012 in Northampton, England. It was only when Poppy was 3 weeks old that my husband noticed there was something wrong with her left eye, one evening while pacing around the lounge to try and soothe her to sleep. She had been having …
Here is Willow on her second birthday. Our story starts on October 7th, 2013. My daughter, Willow, was celebrating her second birthday. There were friends, family and pictures. Lots of pictures. That evening I started looking through the photos we had taken, only to notice that her eye was turned in every single one of them. I immediately …
My second daughter, Isla, was born June 15th 2009. My husband and I were delighted to have another daughter. Isla was born in less than two hours, and I made it to the hospital only 15 minuets before she arrived. When Isla was two days old, the pediatrician informed us that she might have something …
Isla – Bilateral Congenital Cataract, Glaucoma, Scar Tissue, Infection Read More »
Our second son, Tucker was diagnosed with Amblyopia in October 2012 right before his 7th birthday he got his first pair of glasses, after a vision screening at the beginning of First Grade caught that he needed a follow up with an eye doctor. Both my husband and I wear glasses and so we would …
Little Cassandra was born early 2013. At her 2 week checkup her pediatrician noticed something in her eye. She sent us to have it looked at with the specialist and after one visit we learned that she had a congenital cataract and that it needed to be fixed asap or her eye would not develop …
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