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 …
We have had great response to our Infant contact tips 101post. Ive been thinking about doing another one for quite and I figured it was time to do a new post! Anyone who has had to put a contact into their child’s eye knows how hard it can be. I know Im always up for …
We are excited to announce our newest awareness shirt for ROP (Retinopathy of prematurity). ROP is a disease of the eye that affects premature babies who have received intensive neonatal care, where oxygen therapy is used due to the premature development of their lungs. We want to celebrate these tiny little warriors. We are offering our ROP warrior t-shirt design …
I was born with bilateral cataracts in April 1984. The condition is hereditary due to a faulty gene passed down from my grandmother. Initially, the doctors told my parents that my vision was fine, but at 2 months old my grandmother noticed that I was not following anything with my eyes. My mother scheduled an …
Natalie and Riley – Bilateral Congenital Cataracts Read More »
This is Caleb. When he was 11 weeks old, I set him in his bouncer and took several photographs of him. The next day I opened up the photos on my computer and noticed a grey spot on his right eye. Several months earlier I had seen a Today show segment about retinoblastoma and how …
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Calla was born small but apparently healthy in June of 2010, joining her big brother Rowan. We were over the moon in love with her! After a couple weeks I started to notice that my camera flash caused her eyes to look white in pictures. I dismissed it at first but when it continued to …
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 …
I’ll admit that before Evan was born I was a mom that felt like it was important to have my kids vision checked before they started Kindergarten (and not necessarily before), and that’s exactly what I had done with my older kids. When Evan was a baby I became friends with our local Optometrist who …
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Michael was born in August 2011. Shortly after he joined our family, I started to notice a “shine” in his left eye. I thought it was just an odd reflection of light at first, but after noticing it in all different lights for over 2 weeks, I started to get concerned. I took him to …
If you met our son Carson, you would never realize the path he’s had because he is the happiest and sweetest little boy! He is 8 months old and has been through five surgeries…2 to remove Bilateral Cataracts and 3 for Glaucoma (2 on the left, 1 on the right). He is such a strong …
The day Scott was born we knew something was wrong. When the pediatrician checked his left eye it had no red reflux. (meaning no red light would shine back which is what normally happens.) We were then set up for an appointment at casey eye. No one would tell us what could be wrong! We …
At Reed’s 6-month well check our pediatrician recommended we go see an ophthalmologist because his eyes were really crossing. We both figured it was a muscle problem given that there is a history of eye issues and lazy eye in both families. Little did we know the eye alignment was only half of the problem. …
This year my little boy celebrated his 3rd birthday and the day before his birthday we found out that he has enough vision to be able to get a driver’s license. “So what?” you might think, “everybody can get that”. Well there’s a bit more to his story. Dane was a beautiful little baby. So …
Dane – Unilateral Congenital Cataract, and Patching Read More »
Denton was born at 29 weeks gestation, 11 weeks too soon. Our second premature son. Due to eyes fully developing at week 32 we had to see a pediatric opthamologist for ROP. Thankfully we were clear and free of ROP. At 6 months old my husband was the first to notice my son’s right eye …
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 …
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