i'm exhausted from helping my wife with a short paper and running errands all day. my niece is also spending the night, my wife let my daughter sleep in our bed and my son crashed in the living room. i feel a bit displaced in my own home.
i took my son to the eye doctor today. she told me that he has intermittent extropia which basically means my son's eyes function independently of each other and as a result, he sometimes doesn't get to enjoy the stereoscopic experience. in other words, he doesn't see 3-D very well. i don't mean just at the movie theater-- i'm also mean with everyday living. no wonder he stumbles around more than i'd like. he has issues with depth perception.
you'd hardly know it, but sometimes he does have the moments where he seems accident prone. now i know why. so, when he put on the 3-D glasses at the doctor's office and couldn't see the pop up images, i began to really wonder what was going on. now i know.
the doctor told me to look into visual therapy, but stated that we don't even have anybody who practices that in our state, otherwise she'd refer me to one.
i saw on where a few studies have been done expressing that people with this condition are three times more likely than the average person to have mental illness by young adulthood. wow . . . that made me feel warm and fuzzy. mom already deals with clinical depression . . . at first glance it looks like the cards are really stacked against my boy. he's all of a sudden taken up the desire to become good at basketball. i'm short . . . his momma's short . . . he's got hardly any depth perception . . .
yet, you know what? i can't stop believing that he'll be ok. he still bought a new basketball today after hearing the doctor tell him that he'll have trouble with sports. he seems to really have found a way to adapt to his condition. so, maybe it won't be too much of an issue.
but now i understand why he tripped and fell a lot in soccer.
anyhow . . . i won't discourage him. if he really loves the sport of basketball like he claims he does of late, depth perception will simply be another problem that he'll learn to work around.
time to take a hot shower and find some corner of the house to sleep in. i took a training class last week, so i've got a lot of work waiting on me. yeah . . . and i gotta do server patches later today, too.
boy, i'll be glad when things slow down.
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