Melissa from Children’s Hospital Boston’s pediatric blog, Thrive, wrote about a baby undergoing a new surgical procedure, called keratoprosthesis to replace her damaged cornea with an artificial one. It’s an interesting story with a hopeful ending. I have to say, writing this blog has given me a new appreciation for vision, and how fragile itContinue reading “Story about a corneal surgery to save a baby’s sight”
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Monday round-up: November 2, 2009
Humor and patching – at Insights, a sweet post about her daughter’s sense of humor around patching. Interview about Corneal Reshaping – Dr. Bonilla-Warford (Bright Eyes News) has an interview with Dr. Despotitis, an author and Doctor of Optometry who specializes in Orthokeratology (corneal reshaping – I wrote about it here). He has written aContinue reading “Monday round-up: November 2, 2009”
Monday round up – October 26, 2009
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these… Pictures – Amblyopia Kids has a post about her daughter’s preschool pictures. When her daughter got out of school that day, she said that the photographer took her glasses off for the picture. Do you have pictures taken of your child with orContinue reading “Monday round up – October 26, 2009”
Polls: How often have you replaced your child’s glasses for non-prescription change reasons?
Since GeorgeB asked… How often have you had to replace your child’s frames or lenses in the past year for non-prescription related reasons (that would be broken or scratched lenses, or outgrown, broken, bent, twisted, or otherwise destroyed frames). I did two polls, one for lenses and one for frames. You can vote more thanContinue reading “Polls: How often have you replaced your child’s glasses for non-prescription change reasons?”
how often do your child’s glasses prescriptions change
A friend asked me this morning how often you could expect a child’s glasses prescription to change, and I don’t have a good answer (though I’ll try to do some research when I get a chance). The answer will no doubt depend on your child’s age, and their vision, but I wanted to get aContinue reading “how often do your child’s glasses prescriptions change”
vision screenings vs comprehensive eye exams
In Tami’s story, her daughter Lilly passed the vision screening that their school system required for kindergarten, but was found to have amblyopia at an eye exam at an ophthalmologists (read the whole story) . As I was looking in to this, I was surprised to learn that this isn’t all that uncommon. ChildrenContinue reading “vision screenings vs comprehensive eye exams”
Reader question: School help in getting child to wear glasses
This question was posted by a reader on the Little Four Eyes facebook group. -Ann Z We found out a few weeks ago our child is near-sighted. Can anyone speak to whether doctors usually write notes to inform schools that a child needs to wear glasses? We have written two notes so far this firstContinue reading “Reader question: School help in getting child to wear glasses”
World Sight Day 2009
I’m almost out of time, but I wanted to post something in recognition of World Sight Day, 2009 – an international day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. World Sight Day is part of the VISION 2020 GlobalContinue reading “World Sight Day 2009”
spotlight on Little Four Eyes
Julia Kelly at BlogCatalog wrote a very nice spotlight on Little Four Eyes, which includes an interview with me. I’ve enjoyed interviewing other people for this blog, so it was fun to be on the other side and get a chance to talk about Little Four Eyes, and especially how much you all meanContinue reading “spotlight on Little Four Eyes”
Poll: how many pairs of glasses?
Quick poll: How many prescription glasses does your child currently have? You can include prescription sunglasses and goggles, if they have them.
Recommendations
I recently got an email asking for recommendations for an ophthalmologist in Perth, Scotland. If anyone knows of someone, please leave a comment! But it reminded me that I’ve been thinking about putting together a page for recommendations – a place where people can list doctors that they’ve loved and glasses shops that have providedContinue reading “Recommendations”
Reader request: toddlers with autism, sensory issues, and glasses
There was a question posted on the Little Four Eyes facebook page from a mother with a 2 year old with autism who needs glasses, and she’s struggling to help him adjust to the glasses. He is just farsighted and I feel I need to get him to wear glasses. I worry how much heContinue reading “Reader request: toddlers with autism, sensory issues, and glasses”
Book Giveaway at Amblyopia Kids: 45 Lazy Eye Exercises
Hellokittiemama over at Amblyopia Kids recently reviewed the book 45 Lazy Eye Exercises, and raved about it and recommends it “especially to parents who are just starting out with patching, as well as parents like me — who may have been patching now for several months but feeling like they’ve hit a wall on thingsContinue reading “Book Giveaway at Amblyopia Kids: 45 Lazy Eye Exercises”
back to school
I keep seeing lots of back to school pictures on facebook, so I thought it’d be fun to post some here. If you have a first day of school picture that you’re willing to share, send it my way and I’ll post it here. …
One of our little four eyes will be on tv tomorrow
I just got the following note from the mother of Nicholas who is in our photo gallery. How exciting! I thought I’d pass it along… PBS KIDS Sprout Network, (the 24-hour preschool network) has chosen our 3 year old son to appear on TV for one of their cartoon spots in episode called Time, scheduledContinue reading “One of our little four eyes will be on tv tomorrow”
For Little Eyes 