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Don't both of the boys look cute in their glasses! Ely just got his today. We went to a new eye doctor for him yesterday in Memphis. We really like her a lot and will switch to her for the boys' future visits. The doctor works in the University of Tennessee's Medical Clinic there in Memphis. They took a lot of time with him and did a very thorough exam.

He has a couple of things going on with his eyes... he has astigmatism in both eyes;
his right eye is drifting outward at different degrees depending on whether he is looking at a distance, looking at something close-up, or looking at something out of the top of his eyes (imagine looking down at book then looking upward toward a chalkboard with your face still tilted slightly downward);
his eyes are also having trouble converging (example: looking at something away from you then bringing your eyes in to look at something close to you like a book ..... school example again: looking at chalkboard then looking down at a paper on your desk ... his eyes are having trouble doing this).
The first step in our treatment is the glasses. Get things back in focus and see how that helps. We will go back in 6-8 weeks for a re-evaluation with his glasses on to see if the outward turning and convergence issues have improved. We discussed some vision therapy (eye exercises) and surgery as possible future courses of action.

Just wanted to show you the updated picture. We've told John that he needs to go get his eye's checked and get glasses now that he's the only one in the family without them. :)