He has what???!!!

Normal is boring, has been the motto in my house since my oldest Bubba was about 18 months old.
His first year was pretty uneventful; 3 months later I started to wonder about a few things.....

When Bubba would look at anything he would be on top of it like nose touching whatever he was looking at. Walking he only walked with his right side of his body leading. Talking he had a couple words so I wasn't too concerned, yet. My doctor said it's normal, everything is normal....

This picture was taken in November 2012, see his left eye?

I took him into the doctors for something, an on call doctor that was seeing him says "Oh I see your son has a lazy eye?" 

I was not shocked, but so mad that my doctor had ignored my concerns & at this point you could see that his eye was not straight.

I took him to a very nice eye doctor, we started his eye exam everything was looking OK. Covered his left eye & my son flipped out! I have never seen him so agitated, combative, well honestly I had never seen anything like that come out of him. I couldn't calm him down, it took awhile to let him chill out.  

The doctor looked at me, said "well he is blind in his left eye that is why he freaked out. I have a friend that I am going to call in a favor so you can see him immediately, Declan  needs something more then I can give him" 

I was shocked & grateful in that moment. 

There are no words for how I can begin to express my gratitude for Dr. T & his staff.

We went for our eye exam to find out what was really going on with Declan, I should have been prepared for the amazing work out I received attempting to wrangle my kid! He was like wrestling a greased pig! 

I can not even imagine the terror he felt. 

He had to have an exam a full eye exam; which he was not happy about at all! He had his first combative panic attack that day, what I didn't know was that there would be many more in our future.

After the long exam, mostly due to the fact that Bubba did not want to cooperate.

I found out a lot of things: he was blind in his left, severely far sighted, that the condition he had started at 6 months & Dr. T was astonished to know that when I asked the pediatrician said it was normal, the kicker if I had waited another 6 months his blindness in his left eye would be permanent they would have done a procedure to straighten his left eye so it would be straight in the eye socket.

Bubba was prescribed glasses & patching his good eye for 2 hours a day. 

Now this is where normal is boring started........