To properly tell this story I have to first explain that our pediatrician has a funny habit of diagnosing Miles as potentially having every ailment known to man. It took us a few stressful trips to various foot, heart and eye specialists to figure out that she didn’t really think that Miles had these ailments, she just wanted us to go see the specialist just to make sure. Or maybe she just wanted to send business to her doctor buddies, I don’t know.
The important thing is, we now know for sure that Miles doesn’t have club foot, and even if he did, Troy Aikman, Kristi Yamaguchi and Damon Wayans were all born with club foot, so Miles’s future career as superstar-athlete-turned-stand-up-comic would still be safe.
The other important thing is the eye doctor told us is that he can tell Miles will never ever need glasses just by looking at his eyes, which is pretty great, although it makes me feel a little gypped for all the times I read a book in adequate lighting or uncrossed my eyes so they wouldn’t stay that way. Also I hope that being a nerd goes out of style soon.
