Penelope has to wear glasses, but she fights it most of the time. So much so that this is actually her third pair. If we have to go through three pairs of glasses every year, it's going to break us. She was throwing them off of her face while on walks, the glasses would land in the street, and of course we had no idea. By the time we got home and realized that she had thrown them out of the stroller it was too late. We would backtrack our route and find the glasses in the middle of the road, crushed by vehicles. Hopefully these ones will last us for a while.
You might be asking yourself, why does she wear glasses at such a young age. It turns out she has Amblyopia. She inherited it from me. So it's not her fault.
Amblyopia, otherwise known as lazy eye,[1] is a disorder of the visual system that is characterized by poor or lack of vision in an eye that is otherwise physically normal, or out of proportion to associated structural abnormalities. It has been estimated to affect 1–5% of the population.[2]
Amblyopia means that visual stimulation either fails to transmit or is poorly transmitted through the optic nerve to the brain for a continuous period of time. It often occurs during early childhood, resulting in poor or dim vision. Amblyopia normally affects only one eye, but it is possible to be amblyopic in both eyes if both fail to receive good, clear visual images. Detecting the condition in early childhood increases the chance of successful treatment.
The colloquialism "lazy eye" is frequently used to refer to amblyopia. The term "lazy eye" is imprecise because it is a layman's term for strabismus, particularly exotropia. [3]
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