Glasses

I thought that I would be writing this post back in August, because that is when she first got these glasses, but it has taken until now for her to wear them.  Last summer, Anya's ophthalmologist recommended that she see a pediatric ophthalmologist to check her vision.  I took her there to find that the doctor was mainly concerned about her right eye crossing and not so much about her vision.  He then prescribed glasses that were much too strong in the hopes that it would fix the crossing, though he didn't tell me that.  What he told me was that she was going to need surgery to straighten her right eye.  I was able to accept that because she had no vision in that eye, and it did not track well at all times with her seeing eye.

Anya picked out some cute pink glasses and was thrilled to pick them up.  She wore them for less than a minute and then wouldn't touch them again.  We tried putting them on her first thing in the morning, when her eyes were fresh, but no luck.  We tried having her wear them in the car, when she didn't have to focus too hard on anything, no luck there either.  One day, I told her that she had to wear them for ten minutes, and it provoked tears.  Finally, we headed back to the pediatric ophthalmologist to say that she couldn't wear the glasses.  That is when he told me that he had hoped they would fix her eye crossing, but that, in truth, she didn't need such a strong prescription.  He changed the left lens to a +0.5 from the +2.0 it had been.  He left the right lens as is because she couldn't see out of it and started talking to me more about the surgery she would need to tighten the muscles on that eye.

A month later, that eye had a different surgery on it.  A surgery much more terrifying than tightening some muscles, and that she still suffers complications from.  We never did make her wear the pink glasses except for one day when her others had been left at grandma's house.  She was always diligent about wearing her other glasses, and protection of her left eye is what is most important.  She had been through enough and despite the large amount of money we paid for the glasses, we weren't going to fight her to wear them.

Then, suddenly, about two weeks ago, she decided that she wanted the pink glasses.  The first day she wore them for about half the day, and she has worn them the full day every day since.  They have transition lenses, which means they get darker the brighter it is.  This is what made them so expensive, but we had high hopes as we could never get her to wear sunglasses.  Now, sunglasses just happen to her when she is out and she loves it.  When she first picked these out, I was a bit sad to see the purple ones go - they fit her so well - not in size, but in personality - but I have quickly gotten used to these pink ones, and she is every bit as beautiful in them.