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TreSwank -> RE: I Have to Start Wearing Glasses. (Sigh) (1/30/2007 7:51:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SusanofO
My vision is so terrible, that I am almost legally blind without my glasses. It is something like 20/500. I inherited my poor vision from my father. My sister has them, too, but her vision is better than mine. My mother and my other sister have(had) perfect vision, always.
I remember when I was a little kid, about 8 years old, and got my first pair of eye-glasses. I could suddenly see things from a distance I'd just taken for granted that nobody else could see, either. It amazed me I could now see them. It was like night and day.
My mother had taken us to see the movie "Snow White" at a theater a few weeks earlier, and I kept asking if we coud sit closer in front, and it bugged her. Then a teacher at school figured out I couldn't see the blackboard from the back of the room, where my desk was - and I got glasses.
At first, I hated them. I had those awful 1960's "cat-eye" glasses, and my dad used to get mad at me because I would mysteriously "lose" them under my bed, instead of wearing them. He made me wear them, though.
In high school I got hard contacts - because they hadn't really come out with soft ones yet. I fell asleep with them on once, and my eye was swollen so badly when I woke up, I had to go to the ER (not something I recommend).
Today, I wear soft contacts almost all the time. I wear glasses at night, or when my eyes are very tired. Contacts were very weird to get used to at first, Tre. But you do get used to them - with the soft ones now, you can hardly feel them in your eyes (really). I cannot describe how much different they feel from hard contacts - it's amazing.
Then of course there is Lasik surgery. I know several people who have had successful Lasik surgery - but something about it still scares me - I just don't want anyone messing with my eyes.
Welcome to the club!
- Susan
I wouldn't knock eye surgery, because, believe me, these days it's really fucking sophisticated. Back in the early ninties I had eye-surgery to correct a different problem, and came out of it with perfect vision for twelve more years of my life.................and the same methods that were used on the Swankster in his childhood are considered "primitive" next to today's surgical advancements. I've heard that "Lasik" surgery is pretty damn safe, and folks who can afford to get it come out with no regrets.
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