We recieved a call from the school nurse early last week saying that Annabelle's vision in her left eye was very bad. We knew that she had vision problems last year when we noticed her reading while covering up her left eye. We had ataken her to our optometrist and he patched her eye for a month and got her left eye vision to 20/30. Since then Annabelle has never complained about her eyesight regressing up until about a month ago and then the news from the school nurse. On Friday we took her to Spokane to see a pediatric opthamologist and was told that she has Amblyopia - poor vision in an eye that did not develop normal sight during early childhood development. She needs glasses and will have to go through patching treatment to attempt to get her eyesight back to 20/30 the best it will ever get in her left eye. Unfortunately laser sugery will never be an option for her as this is more of a brain development issue.
Since this is something we could've caught at an early age but didn't I am really advocating that those of you with young children to have them get their eyes checked. We didn't do that and now we regret it.
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