Glass-eyed

Ashwin went to school in his new pair of spectacles - a pink frame of his choice. I hope it lasts a few months, considering that children are notorious for breaking them. He has another pair to use at home, mainly while watching TV. He has been diagnosed with astigmatism, and glasses are expected to correct the shape of his eyeball. Since this happens only till a child is 8, according to the ophthalmologist at the CMC Schell hospital, Ash has only 2 years to achieve that. He needs to wear specs till he is 10, and maybe not later, she said.
The eye examination had taken almost one whole day of our stay at CMC, and drove us both mad by the end of it. Must say that the doctor and the optometrist were very sweet to Ash. By the time, we were through with the tests, dilations and meagre lunch at the canteen (they had run out of food Ash could consume), Ash was asleep. A lady from MP who had come down to CMC with her husband for a master check-up spent some time with me trying to understand Ash's problem. She patted his face while I explained in my almost forgotten Hindi the peculiarities of his skin condition.

For his atopic conjuntivitis, the severe itching in the eye caused by the eczema, he can continue to use Olopat drops. Apparently, the drops has prevented any harm to his eye. But I feel he may have harmed his eye by rubbing them through the length of the sofa much of last year.
And when I went to pick him up from school - since schools vans in the city are on strike with the police getting strict about licences - he had the specs in his pocket. He looked like a veteran at it, and it helped minimise my grief at seeing the little boy in specs.