He has something called amblyopia which is where one of his eyes has become dominant and the other less dominant eye gets lazy. It's also called "lazy eye." This is why one of his eyes crosses when he has his glasses off.
The crazy thing is, it's about his eye, but even more about his brain. The reason for the patching is to build up the muscles in his eye and retrain his brain to start using that eye too. Seeing is a team effort after all :) I was laughing with Mark because Kai is super competitive and it just seems to make sense his eyes would be too - ha ha! Hey left eye - ease up and give that right one a chance!
As you can probably imagine getting an almost 4 year old to wear a patch isn't the easiest task, but he's doing great. With lots of encouragement, some help from the iPad and daddy's silly antics, he seems to understand this is just something he has to do. Knock on wood things continue this way... three months is a long time people and four hours a day is no joke.
Last night during his bath Mark took a couple pics so you could see the patch in action. And the other one is from this afternoon. This is his "say cheese" face - so silly.
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