Kid's corner

Today we had an appointment to have Elias' eyes checked. At the yearly check-up at the CLB in his school, he received a note claiming his sight was not very good (borderline normal) and his eyes we not positioned correctly. Because we wanted to make sure there actually was a problem, we consulted a specialist today. The first thing he said was that his eyes were positioned correctly, so that CLB claim turned out to be false. However, through an ingenious device that peeked through Elias' pupils the doctor got the idea that the shape of his eyes was off. While an eye is not a perfect sphere (afaik), the odds were that Elias' eyes took the shape of a rugby ball. I vaguely recall that my eyes have a similar defect, and I was told that this is hereditary along the paternal side. Bummer. Immediately the doctor told us Elias would need glasses. Full-time. And then the shit hit the fan. To make sure that Elias was not straining because he needed to stare into the device, he required two drops of some fluid in each eye, to lightly sedate the eyes so the correction Elias might have been making would be removed. Apparently Elias takes after his dad, and wanted nothing to do with drops in the eyes (I think I'd faint). So it was quite a work to open up his eyes to get the drops in. And five minutes later the scenario had to be done over. The end result was that Elias was not near-sighted or far-sighted (unlike with the first test where he strained), but the shape (obviously) as still off.

Thus, next Saturday we are going to purchase some nice glasses. We also need to teach Elias the E-test where he has to tell which direction the legs are pointing to. Next month we have another visit to the doctor. To see how bad his eyesight really is.