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 »
Lachlan’s story. We are a busy noisy family of 6. We have been blessed with 2 sets of twins. Lachlan is our youngest (by 1 minute) and has a twin brother. In january this year our world was turned upside down by a freak accident in out toy room. A plastic piece of toy train …
Lachlan – Eye Injury, Aphakic, Contacts, Patching Read More »
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 …
This is Presley. Presley is 6 years old. Last fall Presley started Kindergarten. Presley would come home and frequently complain that her eyes hurt and that she couldn’t see the chalk board. So we decided to take her to see the eye doctor where we found out that she is nearsighted and has astigmatism. When …
This is Roman. Roman is 19 months old. Roman was born with an undetected heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. The left side of his heart did not develop. On the morning of his third day, Roman’s health quickly declined and he went into shock. It was then the doctors discovered that he …
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 …
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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 …
Emma is turning one in June. She has only been here for a year, but she has sure filled our lives with joy, laughter, and fun! When Emma was born her left eye did not develop correctly. We noticed something was wrong the day she was born and we thought it was possibly a cataract. …
Our story starts at Lily’s routine 2 week check up. Our pediatrician did all the normal tests: listened to her, shined lights up her nose and in her ears. Then she came to her eyes and she took an abnormally long time on her right eye. I asked what was wrong and she said she …
Eye Power Kids Wear is about kids and making them proud to wear their glasses, contacts or patches. This project started with my son who wears glasses, a contact lens and patches 6 hours a day, I wanted some fun shirts for him to wear and for him to grow up feeling cool in his …
Eye Power Kids Wear creates products for kids and adults to make glasses and eye patches cool!
