Low Vision Screening in Birmingham

At the end of the school year Trey's teacher's mentioned to me that they thought that Trey was having a hard time reading small print. Right after school was out Trey's annual eye exam was due and he saw his regular pediatric eye doctor (normal exam and check on eye health damaged due to first stroke), we told him what the teacher's had said. He didn't notice any visual problems but since there had been damage when he was a baby to his optic nerve and possibly other areas he wanted us to see a Low Vision specialist. His regular eye doctor thought that the problem with the small print could be his attention span or possibly they way his eye "talked" to his brain to see and read. Today we saw the Low Vision specialist. She was able to do more tests than the regular eye doctor and discovered that he needed bifocals. All of this time that he wouldn't look us in the eye may not have been him being defiant but not being able to see us. So, now he has his first pair of glasses. There is a little prescription for nearsidedness (far away) and then the bifocal part for upclose (farsidedness). He looks really cute in his glasses and likes them. He was so funny on the ride home looking out of the window telling us what shapes the clouds were. We will soon find out how well he can read with them. He did read a few letters to me with them on but I think later this week we will do more work with them, right now we are just going to get used to wearing them and wearing them for longer time periods.



Next week we get the cast off!!!