We took Wuffy to the hospital yesterday. It was chaos. Although the consultant he saw was only seeing children there were several eye clincs running so the place was packed mostly with the elderly. Of course the children there were all bored and didn’t want to sit still. Interestingly most of the children seemed to be boys, I think I only saw one girl.
They got Wuffy to read a letter board but he would only read so many before giving up, at least he does know all of his letters so he gave it a go.
We saw the consultant who gave him drops and said we had to give him more drops in 5 mins and he would see him 20 mins later. We had to get a nurse to give the second drops and then waited over an hour to be seen again. Trying to keep a very bored 5 year old quiet when he is very annoyed and upset because he was forced to have eye drops that hurt twice is not easy. Most of the children were very restless though.
The consultant said that the glasses Wuffy has are exactly the right prescription, that they will keep checking him at the hospital and that he expects that as his eyes grow they will improve to some extent.
One interesting thing he said was that because Wuffy has been unable to see for such a long time his brain has not learnt to control his eyes yet. That had never occurred to us but I suppose that as babies grow their brain starts to learn to control all parts of their bodies so eyes are no exception. If his brain hasn’t learnt to control his eyes yet I wonder if that is why he seems to lose concentration easily, won’t sit for any length of time to watch a film, can’t find anything even when it is right in front of him. If he isn’t operating his eyes in the way we do then I guess all sorts of visual things could be explained by that.
So we left with a prescription for a spare pair of glasses and an appointment for January. Wuffy left with a bump on his head because he walked into a bollard in the car park!!
