Since school started this year, Savannah has been complaining of headaches and trouble reading. Now any normal mother would have assumed that the child had a problem with her eyesight and would have taken her to the optometrist immediately. Not me. No sir. I just ignored her for several weeks assuming she was just making excuses for not doing her work. Nice, huh? I finally came to my senses and took her for an exam which proved that she had been telling the truth all along. In fact, the doctor was amazed that her teacher had not contacted me. He said her vision was so bad, he couldn’t imagine that she wasn’t having major problems in school. Ooops!
I feel tremendous guilt, as it is, for dumping my kids every day to go to work. Now I can add to that the shame of letting my precious firstborn stumble through her first six weeks of fourth grade like Mr. Magoo.
