So the last child has officially joined the fray of spectacled beings in the Kao household.

Three sighs for the three kids with myopia who now needs correction for their eyesight.

I’ve put the older two under Ortho-k lenses with Brian from AeroV and I’ve shared much earlier in the blog back in 2017 how Ben went through the process rather seamlessly. In 2017, he was only 8 then. But well, my firstborn being my firstborn was a sensible and adaptable child. Becks followed her brother’s Ortho-k footsteps when she was 9 after two years of spectacle-wearing and adapted quite readily.

We recently discovered how Nat’s myopia deteriorated quite quickly during Circuit Breaker (for the uninitiated foreign readers, this period was our local version of a lockdown, no thanks to Covid) and it wasn’t a good sign at all. Of course never a good sign with this one – we should have seen it coming because this was one child that loved the screen and playing Minecraft more than anything else in the world. When he returned to school after the lockdown, this one complained frequently of not being able to see the board clearly and we knew we had to go to Brian (Uncle Brian, as the kids now affectionately call) and get his eyesight sorted.

We were quite ready to put him on the Ortho-k path when this one cried out he wasn’t ready and we were quite at a loss on what to do until Brian introduced us to a new revolutionary lens that does pretty much what Ortho-k does for the eyes while the wearer is sleeping as he is awake wearing them.

Introducing MiyoSmart lenses, a revolutionary, international award-winning spectacle lens, based on a Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments Technology or ‘D.I.M.S. Technology’ which helps in myopia management and slows down myopia progression.

So no choice, right – since this one expressed clearly that he wish to remain bespectacled for the time being. It seems that putting him on MiyoSmart lenses is the best and wisest idea for now. Nat did take about a few days to get used to the various de-focused points in his new MiyoSmart spectacles when he received them but was good to go thereafter.

We are due for a checkup soon and I’ll update here on his myopia progression. Fingers crossed for this one!