HOSPITAL VISIT

[Sweet]

Hello there!

Sounds like you all have your hands full, your son included in hiding from you all! Maybe you could try not telling him to put them in, and see if he can make this decision on his own.

I just wanted to add that i only have one good eye (which do a lot here), and have managed very well seeing for the last 13 years. The only thing that made things a problem was going through a lot of eyesight disasters earlier this year and realising that one eye isn't enough, sometimes things don't go to plan and your 'good' eye isn't that anymore.

As i only had one eye that i could ever see out of with lenses i decided to go in for a graft to try to even things up with the other one, but it is going to be a long while yet before i get any real vision with it. While my 'good' eye has now healed, my sight is not as good as it was, and i don't want to stress things out further by solely depending on it again.

Sorry to sound depressing here, but he CAN get vision in his other eye, if he just used the lens, which is something i didn't have with trying them. So am hoping that he understands soon that he does have a choice here and that he could see a whole lot better if he used the drops and put the lens in! Tell him not to rely on just one eye, it may do as mine did and finally protest and say enough is enough!!

[eileen hughes]

Hi Sweet

Glad things are not too bad for you at the moment and that your vision gets better soon.

Couldn't agree more about not relying just on his good eye. Although I don't have KC I have relied on a good eye since childhood (have really bad astigmatism in right eye) and this is probably why I took him to the optician in the first place when he was complaining about not seeing properly. Didn't want him to go through life thinking that what he was seeing was normal when in fact with the right glasses, as I thought, things could be so much better.

Me and his older sister are now on his case morning and night to use the drops, so that when he goes back to the hospital in December to get the lens he will be in a better position to wear it.

Take care

[GarethB]

I can understand the sport problem, at 17 I was doing well in the lower echelons of motor sport. As KC came on in my right eye, I could not see cars traing to pass on the inside on right hand corners when I did single seaters. Rallying was harde as I would be at high speeds with trees and walls very close. My rally car was left hand drive, so the door mirror was modified to be inside the car to allow me to see behind and a wider field of view so I could see it with my left eye. My co-driver said he developed religeon after being in a car with me as he could not tell if I always had both eyes open. He certainly did not Closing my right eye approaching certain corners allowed me to see it without the blurred overlap of my right eye.

Sounds like your son wants to wear the lenses and likes his tennis, so incentive enough to use the drops so he is match fit for the new season.

As you say can not rely on one eye as my left is no longer good enough to make the minumum sight requirments for motor racing, so having just restarted in march 2004, I went into retirement again in August 2004.

If your son is worried about loosing a lens while playing tennis, I would recomend the goggles you can get to protect your eyes playing squash. Very good for putting yuor apponent off and within the rules too