Eye Doctor

I don't think I mentioned the mishap we had with Zach and his glasses earlier this month. When Zach came to us, we were handed a pair of glasses and told they were reading glasses for him. Since it was summer, I put them up in a drawer, figuring I would get them out for him once school started. Then I took him for his pre-kindergarten well child visit for vaccanations and all that good stuff. When he was asked to read the eye chart, he could not see most of it. HHMMM. Maybe those glasses are for more than just reading, heck, who knows who got them for him or when. Mental note to check the perscription on them with the eye doctor, since again, who knows when he got them. He wears them, but he complains about it. In the beginning of November I called to make eye appointments for all 3 boys, Pete was due, Steve was complaining about his vision, and I wanted to check Zach's glasses. That very day, Zach comes home from school, minus his glasses. Now one of his coping techniques is to stare off into space with a blank look on his face. So, when I asked him where his glasses were, I got the blank look. After much prodding, someone knocked them off his face at recess, and since he doesn't like them, he didn't bother to pick them up. He and I went back to look for them on the leaf covered playground, with no success. The office and his teacher knew to watch for them, but there is not much hope at this point. Today was our appointment day. Zach has an astigmatism, and is very mildly far sighted. The eye doctor wasn't even positive he needed glasses other than to correct the astigmatism. Pete only had one eye change - yeah, only buying one lense for him, and Steve had both eyes change a lot. I was debating getting Zach the glasses, after all, if he doesn't like to wear them, and doesn't need a lot of correction, maybe he could skip them for a year or two. But NOOOO, Zach wanted glasses. So we had to pick him new frames - had to send the big boys away from us for that, they were just causing more confusion than was necessary. I had just told Mike we were about $800 away from qualifying for our medical tax deduction this year. We just went a long way towards being there now!! Guess I better be careful what I say from now on.