Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Nov 3, 2009, 10:54 pm
Melissa from Children’s Hospital Boston’s pediatric blog, Thrive, wrote about a baby undergoing a new surgical procedure, called keratoprosthesis to replace her damaged cornea with an artifici...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Nov 3, 2009, 9:37 pm
I just got this question from Jenny.  Her daughter is almost 4 and has just (this weekend) gotten glasses for strabismus, amblyopia, and farsightedness.  She’s wondering whether her daughter s...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Nov 2, 2009, 4:37 am
Humor and patching – at Insights, a sweet post about her daughter’s sense of humor around patching. Interview about Corneal Reshaping – Dr. Bonilla-Warford (Bright Eyes News) has an ...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Oct 28, 2009, 11:07 am
An acquaintance of mine is a doctor, she recently had to tell a woman that she’d had a miscarriage. She wrote: “I don’t think I did a great job of it and I want to do it better next ...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 27, 2009, 10:36 pm
This came up in a comment from Erin, “I would love to hear what people say about the younger siblings is the glasses.  My son is ALWAYS grabbing at mine and my husbands and we’re not as c...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 26, 2009, 9:39 pm
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these… Pictures – Amblyopia Kids has a post about her daughter’s preschool pictures.  When her daughter got out of sch...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 25, 2009, 2:42 pm
Since GeorgeB asked…  How often have you had to replace your child’s frames or lenses in the past year for non-prescription related reasons (that would be broken or scratched lenses, or o...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 20, 2009, 9:08 am
A friend asked me this morning how often you could expect a child’s glasses prescription to change, and I don’t have a good answer (though I’ll try to do some research when I get a c...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 19, 2009, 11:00 pm
In Tami’s story, her daughter Lilly passed the vision screening that their school system required for kindergarten, but was found to have amblyopia at an eye exam at an ophthalmologists   (read...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 16, 2009, 11:04 pm
Tami sent me this story about her experiences in getting her daughter diagnosed.  I have more to write about the importance of vision exams over vision screenings, but there is so much good advice in...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 13, 2009, 2:16 pm
Elly was super excited about patching at the pumpkin patch today!   Using  a stack of foam from the dollar store, a black permanent marker, packing tape, scissors and an exacto knife… we cam...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 10, 2009, 10:18 pm
This question was posted by a reader on the Little Four Eyes facebook group.  -Ann Z We found out a few weeks ago our child is near-sighted. Can anyone speak to whether doctors usually write notes t...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 8, 2009, 10:56 pm
I’m almost out of time, but I wanted to post something in recognition of World Sight Day, 2009 – an international day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October to focus...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 7, 2009, 10:02 am
Julia Kelly at BlogCatalog wrote a very nice spotlight on Little Four Eyes, which includes an interview with me.   I’ve enjoyed interviewing other people for this blog, so it was fun to be on t...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Oct 6, 2009, 11:20 pm
In honor of today’s announcement of the Nobel Prize for Physics, which went to Charles Kao for his work with fiber optics, and Willard Boyle and George Smith for their invention of the CCD techn...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Oct 2, 2009, 3:27 pm
I received some helpful advice for helping my daughter stay safe as she RUNS through the house.  I think it is a great thing to teach children of all abilities and wanted to share with you.  The id...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 30, 2009, 1:26 pm
Quick poll:  How many prescription glasses does your child currently have?  You can include prescription sunglasses and goggles, if they have them. View This Poll polling Posted in toddlers...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 28, 2009, 9:18 pm
I recently got an email asking for recommendations for an ophthalmologist in Perth, Scotland.  If anyone knows of someone, please leave a comment!  But it reminded me that I’ve been thinking a...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Sep 26, 2009, 4:20 pm
Zoe and I went to the opening of a nearby park.  Silverwood park is along the shores of Silver Lake, a little ways north of us. The celebration included rocks that you could color with markers, buck...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Sep 26, 2009, 4:13 pm
With the fall term having started, I’m back to working one evening a week – Wednesdays, this term – so I have Wednesday mornings off.    The current plan is to get back to doing yo...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 23, 2009, 10:11 am
There was a question posted on the Little Four Eyes facebook page from a mother with a 2 year old with autism who needs glasses, and she’s struggling to help him adjust to the glasses. He is ju...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 23, 2009, 9:27 am
Eye Exam Video.  This is an oldie, but a goodie from the Sesame Street website.  If you ignore the very outdated clothing and equipment, the exam featured in the video is very similar to what our ex...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 20, 2009, 8:18 pm
This question came in from Heidi.  Any advice for her older son?  -Ann Z Hi, I am a mom of 2 boys that wear glasses. My oldest is 5 1/2 and just got his glasses the week before kindergarten starte...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Sep 20, 2009, 6:19 pm
Each year in mid September, friends of ours host a deep fry party.   They have 3 fryers running for the event, and everyone brings food that they think would be good (or just fun) to deep fry. There&...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Sep 16, 2009, 11:10 am
It’s been 6 months now since we decided to start trying to get pregnant again.  I haven’t posted much about it, which was pretty much my plan.  At this point when we were trying for Zoe,...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 8, 2009, 9:59 am
I keep seeing lots of back to school pictures on facebook, so I thought it’d be fun to post some here. If you have a first day of school picture that you’re willing to share, send it my w...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 3, 2009, 2:26 pm
I just got the following note from the mother of Nicholas who is in our photo gallery.  How exciting! I thought I’d pass it along… PBS KIDS Sprout Network, (the 24-hour preschool network...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 3, 2009, 11:35 am
A few weeks ago we left the PO’s office with some discouraging news.  Nicholas’s  left eye was not doing as well as in previous visits.  Upon reading the eye chart, he was only able to iden...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 2, 2009, 10:09 pm
Welcome to our patch challenge- WEEK 7.  My daughter is 3 and has Amblyiopia.  We are currently trying to help her brain recognize her right eye.  She has -1.5  in her left eye and -8.5  in her ...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Sep 2, 2009, 8:59 am
I’m swamped at work right now – it’s the beginning of the school year – so posting will be pretty light the next couple of weeks.  If anyone has any thoughts on topics or want...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Aug 28, 2009, 10:44 pm
Laugh of the day: Overheard Zoe talking to her Sesame Street stickers in the car, “oh, Cookie Monster, what are you doing on my leg?  No, you don’t belong on my leg, you want to go on my...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Aug 28, 2009, 4:30 pm
I ran across a tweet this afternoon that got me thinking: VisionExpo 73% of American’s believe a person’s choice of eyeglasses reflect their personality, data courtesy of VisionWatch… W...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Aug 27, 2009, 11:07 pm
I received an email from Michelle whose daughter was diagnosed recently with Brown Syndrome (a rare form of strabismus).  She’s looking for other parents of children with Brown Syndrome to conn...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Aug 27, 2009, 10:00 am
I have a whole lot of questions and things to post, I’m trying to get through stuff in my inbox (which reminds me, if you have questions or topics you want posted, email me ann@shinypebble.com o...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Aug 27, 2009, 9:43 am
I’m as big a fan of facebook as anyone, love that I can keep in touch with friends, get back in touch with old friends, get to know new friends.  I’m pretty open on fb, but there’s ...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Aug 27, 2009, 7:28 am
Our daughters’ eyesight seems to have a mind of it’s own.  Unfortunately, as she is growing, so are her eyes.  They are getting longer and as a result, her prescription is increasing.  Since we...
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Ann Z. posted an article on Little four eyes - Aug 25, 2009, 5:00 pm
I’m posting this from Meredith Braunstein who along with her husband wrote the book “Don’t I Look Smart?!” for their son Zachary.  The book is published through blurb.com R...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Aug 19, 2009, 10:45 pm
Crazy weather day today.  It started with an email from our farm share farmer – the one who has had such a tough year already.  They’d just gotten out from under the bad weather in the e...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Jul 9, 2009, 10:40 pm
Chris got me a new bread baking book for my birthday, Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club (I’m all about the bread babking by local authors).  I’ve been quite happy making my Artisan Brea...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Jul 5, 2009, 8:21 pm
We were at a bbq with some friends, and Chris noticed I’d given Zoe some brownie before she’d finished her hot dog.  (She’d asked for chocolate, and I sympathized greatly with that ...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Jul 2, 2009, 11:07 pm
This is part II of what I learned at the cooking class.  Part I covered the actual cooking parts. As we were finishing up our last rotation on the grill, waiting for the corn to finish, I asked one ...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Jul 2, 2009, 10:09 pm
When Chris bought our Big Green Egg, it came with a coupon for a free cooking class at the store where we bought it.  We’ve taken a couple of awesome classes there before, and yesterday evening...
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Ann Z. posted an article on The Tragic Optimist - Jun 30, 2009, 10:42 pm
We’ve been members of a CSA (community supported agriculture, also called farm shares) for 3 years now, though this year we changed to a new farm.  Our share gets us a weekly delivery of whatev...
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