Big hugs to you.

Now, even if he's 100% blind, he can still play catch with Josh! Not with a baseball, but with a ball that makes some noise, jingles or rattles. Still, though, No Playing Ball in the House! Just figger you should establish that rule early!

He can still enjoy a baseball game - by listening to it on the radio, like I did as a child. I have always been awful at sports, so didn't enjoy striking out, or not running fast enough to first base, though I was always the catcher, so I usually caught the ball okay. But I enjoy watching (or listening to people who ARE good at it! He can be 100% blind and still do many, many things. He could be a musician, a composer, a scientist, a teacher, a laborer at many things, a sculptor, a politician or nearly anything else.

Don't be too sad, sweetheart. Even if he just has 20/200 vision in one eye, that's a lot! He'll be able to see colors, which I cannot imagine not knowing about. Even that is an amazing gift we all take for granted.

And he can be the most important thing in the world - a happy little boy. And someday, a happy bigger boy, and some day a happy adult.

He is a sweet, precious being that Josh and you - through much difficulty on your part especially - brought healthily into this world. And he has more aunties here at Pet Talk (and some uncles as well) who already love him, pray for him, and look forward to watching him grow.

Sending you big, bracing hugs. And a shoulder or two to cry on, too, if you want it. My family jokes that we have terry-cloth shoulders - nice and absorbant, okay to cry into.

Kiss Aidan for me, okay? Right on his wee little button nose!