August 08, 2012

August 8th - Glasses

I've been pretty blind since I was born, when I first started to walk I was running into walls and other big objects so my parents took me to the doctor.  It turned out I was borderline legally blind.  I was farsighted, had a astigmatism, and was cross eyed.  Once they got me in glasses the prescription was so strong that eventually my crossed eye's corrected themselves naturally and over time my astigmatism has actually improved (which isn't common but can happen).  When I was 14 a contact lens company finally was able to make my prescription strength and since then I've never looked back and this past Spring a company started making them in disposable even! 

But I'll never get rid of these things, I still have to wear them part of each day and they are the one thing that I make sure to have with me when ever I travel (constant paranoia that I won't be able to see in unfamiliar territory)