When Ben eats a doughnut...he carefully preserves proper frosting distribution. Ensuring each bite has a good amount of the sweet frosting. Making for an overall delicious, enjoyable, and satisfying doughnut experience...
Annabella, on the other hand, eats the frosting off the top being careful to get as little actual doughnut as possible. Once the frosting has been haphazardly removed and savored she asks for another doughnut and starts again....
This so completely shows the differences in their personalities. Everything you need to know about Ben and Anna....and how they differ can be inferred from their doughnut eating....truly.
BTW, you can see above that Ben got glasses! Doesn't he look handsome and like a smartypants????
He failed his vision test at the pediatrician's office and so we were referred to a pediatric ophthalmologist. We discovered there that Ben has a pretty serious case of Amblyopia . He is 20/40 in his good eye and 20/200 in his bad eye (basically legally blind in his bad eye). Profound. I had some suspicions that maybe he needed glasses but certainly was really shocked at the findings. We also found out he is color blind! This actually didn't surprise us either. My dad is color blind and where Ben can identify his colors without issue he would sometimes confuse colors or be unable to distinguish shades within a color etc. So we go for a follow up in May at which time we will likely start patching his good eye to strengthen the bad eye.
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Isn't early detection a good thing?
Yes, it is a good thing, but 5 isn't considered early and by 8 basically nothing can be done. With patching he should be able to get the eye to improve somewhat. If caught earlier it probably could have been corrected completely. Either way not the end of the world. He will need glasses and that is not a huge problem.
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