Just one of 'those' days!!!

So the little gaffer and I went over to town today to go see the eye Dr and apparently my little 8 month old baby needs glasses!!! I was really upset when it I found out, mainly because I was totally caught off guard and had no idea that this was even a possibility. I'm feeling better about it now, but my heart breaks at the fact that he probably can't see out of his left eye!! He has something similar to Amblyopia, or Lazy Eye, but it hasn't really progressed to that point yet. Basically he's extremely farsighted and 'scored' a +7 in his left eye. Now I don't know much about eyes, but I know from what the Dr told me, that's quite high, especially since his right eye is pretty much normal for his age. Thank god we'd taken him for his check-up regularly and our family Dr checked his eyes out and noticed that something seemed a little "off". What if we hadn't though? Then what? Apparently there's no signs or symptoms of his extreme farsightedness except for his eyes crossing or become lazy - and then what?
Basically this is not the end of the world, but it just sucks and I feel bad for him. So now we'll be taking a trip to the Children's hospital to have one of their specialists take a look at him and try and figure out what's going on and what the best course of action is. I also found out tonight, or rather re-discovered, that my husband had some trouble with his eyes when he was younger too and he never had to wear glasses but instead just had to do these silly exercises (that aren't really silly at all because they helped and he has fabulous vision), so you never know, maybe everything will work out just fine. Fingers crossed!!!!