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In reply to the discussion: So proud I could bust! My son has been awarded a 10 month Fulbright Scholarship [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)for recognizing his vision problem.
She called me one day and said she didn't think he could see the chalkboard.
I had just had him in for an eye exam and all was fine! But, she convinced
me that I should take him again.
I sat in on it and watched him completely unable to see the eye chart.
The optometrist asked him to go out of the room and told me it was one
of three things: he's faking; he has a brain tumor; he has this juvenile genetic
disease--Stargardt's--which results in sudden loss of vision.
No history in either of our families but both his dad and I turned out to be carriers.
It was confirmed at U of Iowa --regional eye center for NE/IA--
that it was Stargardt's.
Our son had not said one word about his vision changing. The teacher
could have not noticed it--or not paid attention--and all of a sudden
his grades would have taken a nose dive or even worse, he could have
lost interest in school.
I have kept that teacher updated all through his high school and college
years. Now I have another reason to let her know just how much we appreciated
her attentiveness to her student's needs.