3rd Grade ; eight years old.....

He was eight years old when all of a sudden he couldn't see the board in the classroom. I did not think nothing of it because most kids start having a hard time at a young age and this could be fix with some seeing glasses. Well, after an extremely long eye exam my son was referred to an eye specialist because he could only see black spots in his left eye.  I was scratching my head thinking how could this be, he just played flag football as the quarterback and is now playing the point guard in basketball. How could he be so coordinated with only one eye? The eye specialist ask a ton of questions and I answered each one of them. My son went through many eye test that day and began to get sad. I did too. Well, the doctor told me that my son had Amblyopia in his left eye (what we know as lazy eye). I've heard of a lazy eye, but I thought a lazy eye just drifted every now and then. However, the doctor instructed that my son cover his right eye everyday for two hours to help improve the lazy eye. He also, told me to not let him play any sports because if something happen my son's good eye, he would be legally blind. I couldn't tell my son he couldn't play sports anymore! That was his life. At the age of two years old, he could tell you every team name, it's color, and who was the starting players with there numbers. My son was the loud kid in the stand yelling at the player for making bad plays and at the referees for making bad calls. He was the little two year running bases in tee ball while trying to balance the oversized halmet on his head. He was the team player in basketball, passing the ball. He loved sports. How could I tell him to give up on his dreams and who he is? I couldn't, so I didn't! I just got him some really cool sports glasses with tint and prayed. At first, it was super hard to get my son to cover his eye for two hours everyday. It seemed like it was never enough time in the day, but it worked out and his eye started getting better. At first his left eye was 20/2400....one year later he was seeing colors, then shapes, then letters. I even made these colorful flash cards with pictures, colors, letters, and numbers for him. His left eye kept getting better and better. We started getting hope that one day his left eye would be 20/20 just like his right eye.