Crazy Eyes

One of the things that's worried me about you since (almost) day one is the 'crazy eyes'.

When you were born, you were only 2.002kg and you spent the first four weeks of your life in the Special Care Nursery at Knox Private Hospital.

So tiny! Poppy and me, 27 December 2016

During that time I saw what I would come to think of as the 'crazy eyes'; a wild, chaotic rolling and flickering movement that went for 30 to 60 seconds several times a day.

At first I thought that you were just having trouble focussing your newborn eyes on the world around you. I figured you'd grow out of it. You didn't.

So that's one of the things you do, Poppy, that just ain't right.

I don't know how many people I've mentioned it or pointed it out to, but it wasn't until your health centre nurse saw it that anybody agreed with me that it might be super weird and maybe just a little bit worrisome.

She suggested I video the episodes to show to your paediatrician. Why didn't I think of that?

These videos have been instrumental in getting you the help you need. Every doctor I show them to is fascinated, but they've never seen anything like them before. They all agree that they have to be key to some diagnosis.