Shopping for glasses tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be a day to try out all this late night research [the only time we've had to try to accomplish these extra details in our lives] and try on these eye glasses we've scouted out for our son.  Since he has no nose bridge because of Stickler Syndrome and an abnormally flat face with hardly any  nose there is nothing virtually holding up his current glasses that are covered under our insurance.  The ones he has either hang off of his nose so that his eye lashes aren't being squished otherwise they're flat in his eyes squishing his eye lashes so he can't even see through his eye lashes and they poke him back into his eyes creating more itchy scratchy eyes than is needed.


http://miraflex.info/

There is a few brands we've found in our research that caters to the shape of his face.  We hope that it helps other parents out there with the same frustrating research that we've been spending hours to complete on getting answers on eye glasses that fit the best for our little guy so he's comfortable and can see properly.  Additionally, those basic pairs insurance covers don't have enough on the nose even with nose pads to fit his face comfortably.  We need something that has more substance and thickness to this lack of bridge on his nose.  Myself, being the research guru has spent hours trying to find a list of brands and models along with prices on different websites. Tomorrow will be the day to trial these glasses at local custom stores and mall stores like Sears.  However, our final decision most likely will fall within online stores due to free shipping + $$ sales + most likely no sales tax.  For one pair of glasses that is bound to cost us $100-200 each not even including lenses..those little extra percentages really do add up quickly!

Here are a few brands that is excellent for kids like our sons:

• Mira-Flex
• Lafont
• Fisher Price

Additional glasses that we've found to keep an eye on to see if they have ones that will fit:

• Pex
• Veggie Tales
• Paul Frank
• Easy Twist 
• Liberty Sport
• Modern optical
• And more!

We will post our follow up tomorrow reviewing different glasses to the shape of his face and nose bridge.  I will try to take pictures as well to document how it looks for other parents to get an idea of if they're on the fence and need a visual idea to reference.

The main one our eyes are set on is: 
Fisher price teddy bear & ducky...however, we are not sure what they look like in person and if they're rather girly or look toddler boy like.  

Here is one of the main ones we're looking at trying on him: http://www.simplyeyeglasses.com/eyeglasses-sunglasses/frame.php?frid=100808


We normally don't like to ask, but right now we need help.  Colin needs every ones help with the gift of health, genetic answers, and vision health.  If you would like to sponsor Colins eye glasses [or additional services needed such as Genetic testing, and we're also looking to invest into a real electronic 88 key keyboard for him so he can start to find comfort in music even if or not his vision goes out on him at a young age with this degenerative disease] you can send us a sponsored amount to cambryn@gmail.com paypal account.  Write us a note as to what you'd like for it to go towards.  Otherwise we will use it towards these expenses or set it aside in a special savings account to use towards s main purpose for him related to his health or needs.    

We appreciate everyones time & support during this trying time for our family!