As we come up on our 4 year patch-aversery (6,500+ hours of patching) I thought we would make a quick post with some patching tips. We have a love/hate relationship with patching. We are in no way perfect patchers and are still trying to figure everything out. We started patching my son’s left eye when …
Did you ever wish you had a eye patch for a special occasion but couldn’t find one? My son wears sticky patches and other than drawing directly on them or sticking stickers on them they aren’t exactly the easiest thing to customize. We decided to make our own cool patches. They are easy to make …
Ok I will start this out from the start with my little guy and his story. He was born after several hours of failed labor via an emergency c-section. Which was medically necessary since his had had stopped three times at this point. From the start I could tell something was not quite right with …
Tukia was born with third nerve palsy in his left eye, where 4 of the 6 eye muscles do not work. The eyes were also misaligned (strabismic amblyopia), where his left eye faced out and down. He cannot move his eye in, up or down, the eyelid does not work (Ptosis), and the pupil does …
Tukia – Third Nerve Palsy, Strabismic Amblyopia & Ptosis Read More »
In September, we found out that our son needed glasses. We had noticed his eye turning in a little bit, but it wasn’t dramatic and he didn’t seem to show any signs of a vision problem. He was a little older than three at the time. His first appointment was incredibly traumatic with both of …
Zoe was born March 25, 2007, a perfectly healthy baby girl. It was less than a year before we noticed that her development, while still within normal ranges, was falling behind that of her peers. Around 9 months old, while at a physiotherapy appointment, the therapist noticed a jerk of her eyes. We saw an …
Stella Louise was born last June – she was our sweet baby that was due on July, but decided to come on Flag Day instead. She was 6 lbs 5 oz of pure sweet perfection! At about 4-5 months old, I started noticing that her left eye was crossing a bit in photographs. I seriously …
My son Jaxon is almost 5 years old. We noticed something was going on with his eyes just shortly after his 1st birthday. I recall looking through photos from his birthday party and noticing that the red reflex (red eye) existed in just one of his eyes. The other eye did not have “red eye” from …
On June 15th 1990, my parents welcomed their third child and second baby girl into the world–ME! Little did they know, they were about to get the shock of their lifetime when the doctors told them that I was born with bilateral cataracts. They were so surprised because not only was I their third child, …
Jacqueline & Isabella – Bilateral congenital cataracts, & glaucoma Read More »
During the first few months of Ariana’s life we noticed that her right eye would wander in a bit from time to time. At first we thought it was just a normal baby thing and that the eye would stabilize as she got a little older. However around 4 months old Ariana’s pediatrician recommended that …
Ariana – Amblyopia, Myopia (nearsightedness) and Esotropia Read More »
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 »
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 …
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 …
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