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Optician
I ave had a life long fascination with optical devices and used corrective eye glasses or contact lenses my entire life.. Recently, I was asked to post something about my experiences,. as a contact lens wearer. At the age of 14, I became a hard plastic contact lens wearer. What I remember most vividly was…
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Lost at Sea
About ten years ago I joined my husband on a trip to the Greek Island of Rhodes where he was participating in a scientific convention. After a day of indoor lectures and meetings I suggested we go for a swim in the still warm waters of the Aegean Sea. It was close to dusk as…
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Glasses and Movement Don’t Mix
I’ve always had a love for performing, but only movement-based. I never liked listening to my own voice and always had difficultly memorizing lines. Dancing was always easier. Matching movement with music made memorization a simple matter. When I first started wearing glasses, I was more concerned about the social stigma than any improved functioning.…
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President–Corporation
I have had glasses for over 50 years now. When I lose them (Misplaced is a better word), I always have to stop what I am doing to find where they are. I cannot imagine what people go through who have vision problems. This is one of those great inventions that we take for granted–until…
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baseball
I first played Little League baseball at age 11. My batting average was an underwhelming 0.037. Before the next season, my mild myopia was corrected. That year I batted 0.395. Sure, some of it was just being a year older but I think the major cause of the improvement was the glasses. The other memory…
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On Learning to Wear Glasses
ON LEARNING TO WEAR GLASSES I However it happened, eventually my eyesight waned, lost the crisp and let the world blur. Edges of objects grew a certain fur. Details erased easily as chalk. And in this slack process of loss, focus stepped away from specifics, vision relying on bits of internal reckoning, the stilts of…
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Camping Story
A friend….lived in a big tent with two other roommates, up in the mountains. One evening she went to the shower tent. She was very near-sighted, but had taken her glasses off to go to the shower. She came back into the tent and found her roommate there, on her side of the tent. My…
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Glasses are like Alcohol
Wearing glasses is like alcohol. There are different varieties that are all conveniently placed in an aisle – some looking pretty, some dull, some exotic – they’re all there, waiting to be purchased….You begin to know what you what, choosing the drinks that makes you feel good about yourself. Then, there are the days where…
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Oh Say, Can You See?
Oh say, can you see? First grade The school nurse said ‘eye doctor.’ Peering through her own wire frames Mother said ‘She’s too pretty to wear glasses.’ Second grade Crash! I bump into my sister’s bike. ‘Looks like she needs gl. . . .’ To Daddy,Mother said ‘She’s too pretty to wear glasses.’ Third grade…
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Finding Glasses in Humorous Places
My son is 11 years old. When he was 2, he was diagnosed with autism and at the age of 7 he received his first pair of glasses. He was excited and chose a pair he felt made him look like a spy. They had blue frames and made him look very handsome. Given his…
