{"id":1677,"date":"2015-01-23T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:54:36","slug":"averys-transition-to-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Avery\u2019s Transition to Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since September\u2019s Avery\u2019s eyes have been irritated more frequently than in the past and truthfully too often.\u00a0 Her eyes (usually the right and left at different times) would get irritated to the point that she would squint her eyes so much that they were barely open.\u00a0 We would usually end up taking the contact out and treating her irritated eye with Vigamox for three days as it often would stay red for an extended period if we didn\u2019t do the Vigamox treatment.\u00a0 Meanwhile she would be without a contact (sometimes even two) for days at a time.\u00a0 This was problematic especially on days where she had pre-school or ballet. \u00a0\u00a0We were also finding that her eyes would often become irritated again within days after clearing up.\u00a0 While Avery does navigate fairly well even without her contacts in known spaces, she is for the most part navigating with her other senses.\u00a0 After visiting with Dr. Sideman and Dr. Ellis a few times, we came to the conclusion that the chronic irritation and redness may be a result of the contacts themselves.\u00a0 We tried a fresh pair but the irritation still continued even with the new pair. That left the doctors and us to realize the best course of action was to switch Avery from contacts to glasses as the irritation was likely being caused by a new intolerance to the contact lenses.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The process for prescription glasses has been a long one so far.\u00a0 Avery\u2019s prescription is so strong (+19 in glasses) that some options that would have been available for standard prescriptions were not available to Avery.\u00a0 Since Avery is extremely light sensitive, we needed Rx sunglasses in addition to regular glasses.\u00a0 We were originally going to have Avery get transition lenses so that she would only require one pair of glasses; however, transition lenses aren\u2019t available for her prescription.\u00a0 Thus we had to get two pairs of glasses\u2026.one for indoors and one for outdoors. \u00a0We ordered Avery\u2019s glasses two days before Christmas and to date received her Rx sunglasses one week ago, yet we still haven\u2019t received her regular glasses. The process has been long \u2013 Avery\u2019s strong prescription made the ordering processes including the options and the timing complex and long.\u00a0 For the past week Avery has been wearing her sunglasses all the time (even indoors) and she seems to be adjusting quite well.\u00a0 Her regular glasses are supposed to be ready by tomorrow (although we heard the same thing last week) and while I think it is going to take some initial adjustment as she has not been exposed to light without sunglasses for a few weeks straight, I\u2019m hopeful that she is going to adjust well to her regular glasses.\u00a0 We ended up including a slight tint in her regular glasses so hopefully that will help with Avery\u2019s light sensitivity some. \u00a0Since Avery has been keeping her sunglasses on all the time (with the exception of sleeping and bathing), myself, Justin, or Karolin have been around to take her glasses for safekeeping.\u00a0 She knows she can see better with her glasses so I think she will take decent care of her glasses; however, she is only three and I am concerned with her accidently misplacing or being too rough with the glasses mostly when she switches from her regular glasses to sunglasses (i.e. when they go outside at school).\u00a0 Her teachers have been great and I\u2019m sure they will try to keep a close eye on her; however, there are two teachers for 12 students, so there is only so much they can do. Speaking of Avery\u2019s teachers (Ms. Kristen and Ms. Denise), they are wonderful.\u00a0 They have made some simple yet very helpful accommodations for Avery in coordination with her vision and occupational therapist (i.e. marking her coat and school bag spot with an blue \u201cX\u201d, providing her a copy of the book read during circle time for her to personally look at).\u00a0 Both Avery and Emerson love Ms. Kristen and Ms. Denise (and even Ms. Marnie).\u00a0 They love to play make believe at home and will often appoint themselves or someone else to be Ms. Kristen or Ms. Denise. \u00a0We couldn\u2019t be happier with VPC Pre-school.\u00a0 Anyway, back to Avery and her Rx sunglasses.\u00a0 Here she is!\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since September\u2019s Avery\u2019s eyes have been irritated more frequently than in the past and truthfully too often.\u00a0 Her eyes (usually the right and left at different times) would get irritated to the point that she would squint her eyes so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}