At our parent-teacher conference with Madison’s teacher a couple of weeks ago, Mrs. Myhre commented that Madison occasionally looked as though one eye was crossed. She asked if we had noticed it, and while we had on occasion thought we had seen something similar, we didn’t really think too much of it. Agreeing with her teacher, we allowed her to send Madison to the school nurse for a simple eye exam.

The nurse reported back that we should have her eyes professionally checked, so we set that appointment up. The ophthalmologist informed us that Madison’s left eye was very bad and we needed to do something about it immediately, in the form of glasses. So last Monday we made a trip to the eyeglasses store and she picked out some pink frames.

Well, the special ordered lens for the left eye finally came in today, so we were able to pick her new glasses up. The right eye is in fine condition, but now with the new glasses, Madison says “things aren’t blurry anymore!” Not that she had complained before, but I think now she realizes that she wasn’t seeing as well as she could’ve been.

She looks very “grown-up” with them on, and was very impressed with all the new instructions she has about how to treat them, not to let others wear them, etc.

And, with luck and prayers, the eye doctor said the sight in the affected eye may improve over the next 3-5 years to the point where she may not require glasses long-term.