"What in the world is Myopia?" was my first question when Jakjak had a screening in school a few months ago (free and mandatory). We then received a follow up letter with a referral to an eye doctor in Geylang (a place made infamous by being a red light district). And so we went.
The good doctor tested Jakjak with eye equipment (obviously) in a series of tests. I'm not really a doctor, so I can't really do a diagnosis, but since Jakjak was born a preemie, I did have genuine concerns about his eyes (although he was cleared of any issues before he was discharged from the hospital after staying for 2 months).
This was Jakjak's first visit to a specialist other than a pediatrician, so for him to see and use those different machines was pretty cool. He looked through some kind of scope where I heard his doctor ask him to look at a barn and a cow (you could only see a box from the outside). He then tried on this weird looking spectacle with interchangeable lenses and it had numbers and levers and looked like something from a science fiction movie.
There were some small letters (incredibly small, seriously) that he was not able to read in the chart, which made me worry. At the end of the session though, the doctor happily said that Jakjak has slight astigmatism in the right eye but there is no need for eyeglasses. That was awesome news (and Jakjak had been a happy little bugger while doing all the testing). We headed out for some chicken rice for breakfast and I planned the rest of the afternoon with Jakjak (eventually, this story will lead us to SAM).
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