Buffy comment

Catching up more on Buffy, as we often do in the evenings, usually with ice cream. ( comment on tonight's ep )

I am inspired to make and steal borrow icons.

Jamie's glasses

Jamie's glasses were ready today, so we drove out and got them fitted to him.
( Picture of Jamie in his new glasses )

He hated that part. But then once we got into the car, he left them on undisturbed for a glorious forty minutes, that made me feel EVER so optimistic about how this was going to work. Maybe, just maybe, he would be one of those children who realizes how much better he can see the world and then leaves the glasses on!

Let's just say that this particular bubble of optimism has been well popped.

He does seem to see better. He was looking around a lot at the optician's. When we were walking into Walmart for a grocery run, I was suddenly getting my arm YANKED as he saw the plastic playset and the big air inflated water slide they had outside for display - he hasn't done that before. I did have to give up halfway through the grocery shopping and put the glasses in the case in my purse. (Fisher Price glasses, with this cute little hard plastic blue case that hinges open at one end.)

I am a bit concerned that they may not be sitting far enough UP on his nose. I'd been insistent that he not get really narrow lenses because I remembered how much I disliked glasses that left blank space at the bottom, as looking into my lap for work left me looking through air, not lenses. But for him, the problem seems to be at the top. And this is a big concern, because hey, for a two year old, a lot of life involves looking UP.

I'm not sure what to do about it. I'm a little wary of rushing back there to ask them to readjust. See - Kevin from ECI gave me the referral list of pediatric optometrists he could recommend, and I started calling right away. There were two relatively nearby - but one had closed for the week and I couldn't reach them, and the other said they could see him in a month. I wanted results sooner than that. So I ended up going with an optometrist in Grapevine, a goodly drive from here. And he sent me to get the glasses made to an optician in Southlake, even farther. It took about an hour to get there today, and an hour and a half to get back. So I'm not in a big hurry to rush back. Jamie will be seeing the doctor again in about 5 weeks for a followup check, so maybe I'll let it wait until then.

I'm really hoping this will make a big difference for him. And I'm really hoping I can keep them on him enough for them to work. It's going to be a bit of a rough time for us as we fight him over that.

Resemblances

I was looking at the picture in the previous post, and telling selenite that I fully expected to start getting comments about how much Jamie looks like his Daddy, even more now that he has glasses. Well, he may look like selenite, I thought, but he didn't follow his Daddy's pattern in his prescription - unlike nearsighted selenite, he's farsighted and has strabismus, like his mother.

Then I thought - right, this cute little brownhaired boy with his new round glasses? Spitting image of his father - but he has his mother's eyes.

Pardon me as I put my head in my hands and giggle at the fannish geeky appropriateness of it all...