Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Bradley

Bradley.

My little Mr. The middle child. Only boy. And Mr EasyGoing himself!

This year Bradley has started year 1, finally up in the big school with his sister.

Over the holidays he had a great time in Perth. He got to feed a giraffe at the zoo, went rock climbing, tried snorkelling and got his eyes tested for the first time.
I've worn glasses since I hit puberty. And Bradley's always squinting and seems very sensitive to the sun so I took him in with me.

He did awesome, he sat through the same eye tests that I take and aced (most of) them. The optometrist kept commenting on how smart Bradley was-he went through all the colourblind tests, reading the charts, everything.

AAAAAANND we've discovered Bradley does have a little vision problem. He's a teeny bit long sighted (opposite of me), but he has a DUST ALLERGY that is affecting him a little bit.

A dust allergy. And we live in the Pilbara! Dust is so fine and so common here everyone looks like they have a freaking sun tan from all the dust!
So how do we help this dust allergy? Well there were two options.
Option 1: medicated eye drops 6 times (!!) per day-meaning I would have to go to the school each day to put drops in his eyes.
Option 2: ice his eyes 3 times a day every day.

We took option 2. So every single day before school, after school and before bedtime he sits on the couch with a brand new packet of frozen peas that we've shaped nicely for him and he ice's his eyes!
As can be expected he doesn't much like it, it's cold and uncomfortable and he gets distracted and ends up with the peas in his lap instead of on his eye.
Oh and he also got a pair of really cool prescription sunglasses to help his sensitive little eyes 🙊🙈😎 he loves them!

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