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well, it is ophicial. my son is on his way to becoming a pirate!
we went to the eye dr. today and he has to wear an eyepatch for
the next three months. we are trying to correct his lazy eye.
now he just needs to learn how to say arrrrghhh! has anyone else
gone through this with there keets?

This should help you understand him...


http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

CaptainP wrote:This should help you understand him...


http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

Of course CaptainP has the medical advice needed. I don't have keets, but one of my cousins went throught that at an early age. Just be prepared for a lot of frustration, especially as they have to adjust to the loss of depth perception.

My cousin's vision was corrected sooner than expected, so it must have worked well. Hope the same goes for your keet.

I was one of those little patch wearing kids in 1st grade. I really don't remember much about it, though. Maybe because I only wore it in the evenings...not during the school day (therefore no teasing from the patchless kids ) In fact, I still have the patch in my jewelry box...it went over my octagon-shaped glasses frames . Honest, they were real popular in the late 60's, early 70's!

lovin_jimmy wrote:well, it is ophicial. my son is on his way to becoming a pirate!
we went to the eye dr. today and he has to wear an eyepatch for
the next three months. we are trying to correct his lazy eye.
now he just needs to learn how to say arrrrghhh! has anyone else
gone through this with there keets?

Not with the keets, but with me. Don't let him goof up and not wear the patch. I still have vision problems, due to not wearing the patch as a kid. I have no depth perception and that creates its own set of problems. Good Luck with the pirate.

lovin_jimmy wrote:well, it is ophicial. my son is on his way to becoming a pirate!
we went to the eye dr. today and he has to wear an eyepatch for
the next three months. we are trying to correct his lazy eye.
now he just needs to learn how to say arrrrghhh! has anyone else
gone through this with there keets?

I watched Pirates of the Carribean today. Rent it for him. Johnny Depp is wicked funny. It will teach him to be a real Pirate.

thanks for all the advice! our first day of patch-wearing went suprisingly well. he is only 2 so there was concern about wether he would keep it on or not. the up- side is, since he is only 2, he only has to wear it for 2 hrs a day. he wasnt happy when i took it off though. we are using the bandage type (its supposed to be better) so it pulled his skin when it came off. hopefully soon he will be all fixed! his sister is working on the "arrrgh" with him

CaptainP wrote:This should help you understand him...


http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

lol thanks!

lovin_jimmy wrote:

CaptainP wrote:This should help you understand him...


http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

lol thanks!

Keep us posted on how the little guy is doing.

will do

We need a pirate pic of him!

LJ - my baby sister had to wear one at about that age..........they adjust really quickly to it and the younger they are the quicker they fix themselves - ahhhhhhhhhht be young again

Des forwarded me this thread. With both my keets starting school, I missed it but...
Welcome to the world of vision correction!!! My son was born in 1990. At birth, one of his eyes didn't open as far as the other. Not a noticable amount...except to my mother, who is the world's biggest worrier. So, I asked the doctor. He said he didn't see a problem. For the next 3 years, my mom stayed on my back about "The baby's eye". I ended up in tears one day and told her he was fine, all the doctor's in the peds group said he was fine. Leave MY BABY alone. Of course, this put tention between us and she ended up crying, as I was and said she was just concerned because she loves him too. Well, at his 3rd birthday well check, that pediatrician asked "What are we doing with his lazy eye?" I bursted into tears and explained to her, like I have here. How he would look at a puzzle and bang the pieces on it, not realizing they fit INTO in. The next week, my 3 year old saw the (in my opinion) the BEST peds opthomologist in NE Florida. He was in bi-focals and a patch that afternoon. He is far sighted and has a inward turning, lazy eye. He went home, into his bedroom and began screaming. He had played with toy trains on his dresser for over a year but had never seen the little boy looking at him in the mirror. Then, he dicovered airplanes and hot air balloons. He played 3 years of T-ball. His hand to eye coordination is still not up to par but it's wonderful in comparison. We patched every waking minute for years. Then we began backing off until, about 3 years ago, the doctor said the correction was at it's best and it was no longer needed. It's not perfect, but it's great. With his glasses, he sees 20/25 in the bad eye and 20/20 in the good. That's one heck of a long way from not using one eye and 20/200 in the other. My "baby boy" will be 14 next month. He's a defensive lineman on the jr. high football team. He's in BETA Club and working towards his Eagle in Scouts. His vision NEVER slows him down. His writing is not great but you can read it. But, with computers today, who needs to write?? I'll keep your keet on my mind and in my prayers. Remember, the more he uses that weak eye, the stronger it will get. I will now get off my soap box. Good luck and when people say "What happen to his eye!!!" as they will, learn to ignore it or let him answer. When a little one looks at a stranger and says "This is just the way God made me". It stifles them, quick. We tought ours that because we love him, we want him to see, therefore, he has glasses and a patch. In Sears one day, a little girl went by in a stroller. She was wearing glasses too. Jimmy said "Look Mommy, they love her too!".

awwww thanks for all the info. daniel has been wearin his bifocals for about 5 weeks. yesterday the doc said it has helped alot w/ the crossing, now we are patching to get him to use his bad eye. so far he is tolerating it pretty well. he is 2 so he gets distracted easily. so far he hasnt tried to take it off. he notices evryones glasses (dasses) too.

lovin_jimmy wrote:well, it is ophicial. my son is on his way to becoming a pirate!
we went to the eye dr. today and he has to wear an eyepatch for
the next three months. we are trying to correct his lazy eye.
now he just needs to learn how to say arrrrghhh! has anyone else
gone through this with there keets?

haven't been through this, but a "cool" thing is that it will coincide w/ Halloween...HMMMMM...I wonder what he can be for Halloween this year???????????????????????

I've got a cousin that had severe lazy eye when he was born. When he was 2 they took both eyes completely out of the sockets and put them back in. That was 35 years ago - surely the technology is better now. My cousin is an Orthodontist now, so I'd say he recovered fine. There is definitely hope for Daniel.

I had to update...my other keet, who was 5 last May, went into glasses yesterday. Same problem as her brother. Not near to the same extent. She also only has the weakness and not using the left eye because it just doen't see as well. The muscle isn't weak, therefore, we didn't notice. Her eyes line up perfectly but she only uses the right one. How, for years has she bluffed her way through eye checks at the doctor??? Dunno. But, she is as cute as ever in her Hush Puppy, purple glasses.

awwwwwwwww, i bet she is adorable! my son seems to be doing well. his eyes are lining up much better now. however, he is in an abusive stage. he is very amused by trying to break them!

lovin_jimmy wrote:well, it is ophicial. my son is on his way to becoming a pirate!
we went to the eye dr. today and he has to wear an eyepatch for
the next three months. we are trying to correct his lazy eye.
now he just needs to learn how to say arrrrghhh! has anyone else
gone through this with there keets?

Hi.... I am an Optician here in NY....... In most cases it always upsets the parents more than affecting the little pirate...... At this young of an age everything should work out fine..... The patch is probably on his good eye so that the weaker muscles around the lazy eye strengthen. The youngest child I ever had to fit for eyeglasses (with an eye patch as well ) was a 17 day old infant........ (In this case we were trying to prevent a disorder her 2 older siblings developed, and happy to say that it worked....)

wow! 17 days?!? i cannot imagine! you actually put glasses on a 17 day old baby?i didnt think they had their eyes open enough at that age to make much of a difference! i have a 5 week old keet too. do you think we should talk to our dr. about him too? is there anything i can do to help him out now? thanks!