The New Contact

The new contacts M is able to wear now are disposables!  That means no more custom lens for now.  The custom lens she has been wearing for over 2 years were $175 each.  We had lost a few, and eventually they just need to be replaced after a few months of wear (I don't think she had one that was more than 3 months old ever!).  The new disposables are monthly lens and they come in a 6 pack!  Only about $70.00 for a pack of 6!  I tell her 'if your contact falls out or you lose it - it's no big deal!'

The change in prescription has changed M's life.  She is able to see so many more things at greater distances.

This is a picture of how she needed to colour with the custom lens to be able to see what she was colouring.

This is a picture of how she can colour now.  Notice the difference in how close her face needs to be to the paper.  The new lens allows her see from a farther distance, and therefore doesn't need to be so close to focus properly.

So over the past 2 years her brain has been developing because of all the patching she has been doing, her eye has been growing, and those things combined with a prescription change at this time to meet those needs, has made a dramatic difference in her vision.

When she is patched she can navigate herself around town, seeing stores, landmarks, and streets.  She is able to see lower flying airplanes or helicopters and track them in the sky.  She is able to participate more in book reading, showing more interest in the stories and pictures.

We love her new contact because it makes her see better and because they are so relatively cheap!