Glasses

Well, I'll have to post a picture when we get them in next week, but Allison is getting glasses. We visited the eye doctor yesterday (now Allison has seen an eye doctor exactly the same number of times that her mom has - once). She is a little farsighted. I guess all kids are farsighted, but most grow out of it about when they start school. The reasons the doctor recommended glasses for her were two-fold. One, her vision was slightly uneven and I guess if you don't outgrow the farsightedness then one eye can start to compensate and that could (in a worst case scenario) lead to a lazy eye. Secondly, she has difficulty focusing on near things, even with the corrected prescription - which is kindof a habit of hers. I probably cannot explain this as clearly, but rather than waiting for near things to come into focus - she just looks away so that the pathways between her vision and her brain are not getting totally in sync. So the doctor actually gave her a prescription for less than she "needed" in the hopes that her eyes would continue to develop and she might grow out of them, but still helped near things come into focus better. We go back again in October to check them again.

But, we also learned that Allison is resourceful. The set-up in the office was that you read the letters in a mirror so that the screen with the letter on it was behind the chair. Whenever the letter got out of focus, Allison would just turn and take a quick peak behind her and read the letters backwards.

So, the glasses should arrive next week. Getting her to wear them may be another trick entirely.