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I can see clearly now . . .
Well, actually Madison can. She had an eye doctor appointment last night. I changed her from the pediatric ophthalmologist to the eye doctor Bill and I go to. It’s just down the street, and it’s covered under our vision insurance (whereas her ophthalmologist was not). The amazing thing is that we’ve been going to the other place for 2 years, and I learned more about what’s up with Madison’s eyes last night!
Now, we ended up at the ophthalmologist when Madison was 3, because she had a lazy eye. The glasses were to correct it. What I was never told was that she has a refractive error in her eyes, so she’ll always wear glasses. She’ll always have to wear glasses. Unlike adults, they also don’t give them the full prescription right away either. They slowly work their way up. This explains why every single year her prescription has changed. Also, until they get her to her full prescription her depth perception sucks. For us, this explains a lot. We couldn’t figure out why she can’t catch. Well, that explains a lot. If you don’t have depth perception that would make it quite difficult.
Now, we wait for her new lenses. These still aren’t her full prescription, but her new doctor has already told us that she’s putting Madison on an accelerated schedule to get her up to where she needs to be.
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The Audiologist
As I said in my last post, Madison failed the preschool hearing test. I never there was a chance of that, and I found myself a lot more upset about it than I thought it would be. I ended up Twittering about it, and a lot of the awesome people on there made me feel a lot better about it.
We lucked out and were able to get her in today to get her hearing tested. I was a little nervous, but she had a blast doing it. They did several cool things. First, they tested to see if she had fluid in her ears. They put a thing in her ear, and we watched a screen. If it looked like a pancake when the tone sounded, she had fluid in her ears. If it looked like a mountain, she didn’t. We saw two mountains (one for each ear). Then they did a test to check her middle ear, and she passed that. Lastly, they tested her manually. They put in earplug looking things in her ears, and the audiologist went into a different room and talked to Madison over it. She said words like carports, baseball, and ice cream, and Madison had to repeat the word. The audiologist told her she did a good job to which she replied that “she practices a lot”. I am not sure what she practices, but it was pretty funny. After she repeated the words, they then did a test with tones. If she heard the tone, she had to clap. They then did the word test again. Then they did a last test with some earphone looking thing. When she heard the beep, she had to say Beep.
The good news is that she passed! On a scale of 0 – 20 being normal, she scored 5s on most things. She did get 15 on 800 mhz stuff (it could be 8,000 I don’t remember). That is still in the normal range, but I could hear when she was missing words, so it is something I will keep an eye on. Their recommendation was just to keep an eye on it, but she was completely normal. Woohooo!!!!
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Lands End Giveaway!
I love Lands End. They have some of most stylish clothes at a good price. They even have plus size items that look good, so they score 2 thumbs up in my book. I also love that they have a virtual model on their site. All you have to do is put in your height and weight (there are othere things you can customize too like eye shape and hair color). You then can pick up clothing to put on your model, and know how that looks on you. You can exchange out colors, sizes, and pretty much anything else you want. I could literally spend hours just playing with that.
Now, if you are interested in shopping there for yourself or Christmas, use this coupon code:
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