To have a child...is to forever have your heart go walking around outside your body

"Do all my friends and all the kids in the world be able to see with their two eyes?" my little boy innocently asked me.

About a week earlier he had asked me if I hadn't been able to see with one eye when I was a little girl.

Also recently, he asked "How long do I have to patch? Until I can see with this eye?"

He seems to be trying to figure out exactly what the situation is with his eyes. For all the above questions, I answered honestly, carefully, but I tried to be casual. "A lot of kids see with two eyes, but some kids are like you, with one eye that gives them trouble." He recently met my uncle, who is blind, so I reminded him that some people, like "Tio Gilbert" (Tio is "Uncle" in Spanish) cannot see at all. I also explained that some people are deaf, and some people cannot walk and may use a wheelchair, etc.

As for the question of how long he would have to patch, I said maybe til he was 7 years old or so, but that Dr. T would tell us when it was time to stop. I wonder if I should have been more honest with him about that. I mean, his vision might not improve all that much. But you never know. I guess we just gotta wait and see. But I do wonder what I should have said. I guess there will be other opportunities to talk with him as he wonders and asks.