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So I need a mama curbside consult.
Took C to the doctor today for her 3 year check up. Everything was great and as expected except for the eye exam. They do it with pictures and it was apparent that her eyes are WAY, WAY different. As in 4-5 lines different. The nurse was like, "Oh she probably doesn't know what the pictures are"...um, my kid knows what an umbrella, house, and an apple are AND she just did it on the other eye fine. I encouraged them to use the other chart to check (the one for older children) since she knows her letters and nurse pointed to a "B", C goes "I can see the 'H' above it" (referring to the line above) which was accurate. Nurse was like, "oh it's ok if she doesn't know her letters"...I walk C over to the chart so she can see and ask "what is this letter?" to which she immediately answers "B". Nurse brushes me off.
I asked the Pedi about it and she said it's not that big a deal, that it only represents like 20/30 vision (which seems odd - there's a big difference in size within a 4-5 line difference) or something and that they usually only write "Attempted" for this age anyway. Ok, I get that but my kid did it and there's a potential finding...
So, 1) am I completely crazy, 2) should I have her eyes checked? - I mean clearly this isn't an emergency but DH had glasses as an older child so it's not inconceivable that she'd need glasses. If she does have a weakness, I think she's probably compensating fine but that doesn't mean I don't want her to have appropriate correction as needed.
Thoughts? I don't want to be a psycho doctors wife, there are many more problems in this pedi's day than my perfectly healthy, clearly fine 3 year old but I don't want to miss something.
Took C to the doctor today for her 3 year check up. Everything was great and as expected except for the eye exam. They do it with pictures and it was apparent that her eyes are WAY, WAY different. As in 4-5 lines different. The nurse was like, "Oh she probably doesn't know what the pictures are"...um, my kid knows what an umbrella, house, and an apple are AND she just did it on the other eye fine. I encouraged them to use the other chart to check (the one for older children) since she knows her letters and nurse pointed to a "B", C goes "I can see the 'H' above it" (referring to the line above) which was accurate. Nurse was like, "oh it's ok if she doesn't know her letters"...I walk C over to the chart so she can see and ask "what is this letter?" to which she immediately answers "B". Nurse brushes me off.
I asked the Pedi about it and she said it's not that big a deal, that it only represents like 20/30 vision (which seems odd - there's a big difference in size within a 4-5 line difference) or something and that they usually only write "Attempted" for this age anyway. Ok, I get that but my kid did it and there's a potential finding...
So, 1) am I completely crazy, 2) should I have her eyes checked? - I mean clearly this isn't an emergency but DH had glasses as an older child so it's not inconceivable that she'd need glasses. If she does have a weakness, I think she's probably compensating fine but that doesn't mean I don't want her to have appropriate correction as needed.
Thoughts? I don't want to be a psycho doctors wife, there are many more problems in this pedi's day than my perfectly healthy, clearly fine 3 year old but I don't want to miss something.
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