A new vision

Well, it happened.  My son got his prescription to get glasses.  I can't say that I was surprised.  It was bound to happen, not only because he has down syndrome and I guess kids with down syndrome are more likely to need corrective lenses (I don't know, I've never looked up any statistics with respect to this).  But, my son also had my family history going against him.  I wore glasses almost my entire life since I was a little kid and pretty much everyone else does or did too.

I was hoping that he inherited my husband's genes.  Of course this did not happen.  I was sad when the eye doctor confirmed my suspicions that he would have to get glasses.  Even though I knew it was going to happen, it still was sad news to hear.  The news to me signaled just one more challenge that we had to go through and that more specifically my son had to go through and what mom wants her son to face more challenges than necessary?  Plus, this is something really difficult to explain to a four year old.

I suppose I can look on the bright side that having glasses will help his development and that it will also prevent any problems with his brain development because according to the doctor, my son would have started relying on the stronger eye and that would have made his weaker eye worse, etc.  But, this was not my first reaction.  Logically, I understood this but emotionally, well it would take me a few days to accept. 

Despite my feelings, we got my son fitted for a new pair of glasses and since it would take a couple of weeks for them to come in, we prepared him by acting excited that he was getting a pair of glasses.  I don't think he finally comprehended until he put them on today.

So far so good.  I am currently bribing him with chips and the iPad.  It doesn't help that he is also running a fever because of a double ear infection but he is such a trooper and has stopped crying and trying to rip the glasses off his face.  Hopefully, it will be an easy transition for him.

I do have to admit (as his mom of course!) that he does look darn cute in his new glasses.