Scruffy the Uffy.
Over 5 years ago my best friend gave my baby bump a doll she called Scruffy the Uffy. Scruffy became one of our son's (Dexter) favourite toys.
When Dexter was 3 months old we learned he had congenital glaucoma. He had his first surgery when he was 3 months old. He started wearing glasses at 18 months old. He hated them so daddy made a pair for Scruffy.
At 2 Dexter had his 14th surgery and lost all vision in his right eye and was registered as severally visually impaired shortly after this he started to use a long cane. So daddy made Scruffy a long cane.
Dexter met his first visually impaired friend who was also a cane user just before his 3rd birthday. Dexter then decided Scruffy needed a friend. So we bought Pink. Scramble followed Pink then Jeff then many more. Dexter's Uffy collection now numbers 14.
Scruffy and Dexter have had many adventures together over the last couple of years. Once we were told Dexter would be a braille user we started to look for books and games for him. We very quickly realised that the provisions for children were limited. We, therefore, decided to create our own books using Scruffy as the star. All of our books have visually impaired characters in them.
Dexter is currently mad into space at the moment and we are working on Dexters idea of a space book that will include some of Dexters great ideas….
“Julie - Dexters Mum”