I've posted in the past about my frustration with my girls' glasses. Two of them have been in glasses for more than a year. At one point I was at the optometrist's office once a month having nose pieces replaced.
About two weeks ago it was picture day at preschool. As she stood in line, Roo's wire frame glasses snapped. She says she wasn't even touching them at the time. I believe her. Those things have been bent out of shape so many times that I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. It's not that she doesn't take care of her glasses. She does. Sometimes, though, in those oh so fun sisterly fights, her sisters grab her glasses off her face and they get bent out of whack. The good thing in all of this is that I already had their annual eye exam scheduled for the day after pictures.
Tortilla is thrilled because the optometrist determined that her farsightedness has corrected itself enough that she no longer needs glasses. Cakes and Sue Sue have never needed glasses and still don't. Roo will likely need a vision correction for the rest of her life, although the optometrist noted even her farsightedness isn't "as bad" as it was a year ago.
After the appointment we had some decisions to make, namely what glasses Roo would wear. We spent some time looking at our options. Hubby and I narrowed it down to three pair. One pair Roo immediately nixed. Out of our choices she found the pair she wanted... pink, plastic frames. They weren't my first choice, but since they were in my top three and she liked them, I went with them. The good thing is that they don't require separate nose pieces, so I've automatically reduced my trips to the optometrist for emergency repairs. Let's just hope this pair stays in one piece for a long time! (If not, hey, at least I bought the "protection package!!")
September 21, 2010
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I'm impressed she's accepting any glasses given that she's the only one wearing them. That kind of thing can feel like a punishment and, the fact it doesn't argues you couldn't have handled the whole thing better.
Protection package? Always a good thing with small kids.
Hooray for no nose-pieces. I detest those things.
That said, as active as Melody is, I'm glad that she only needed to patch to resolve her vision issues.
I'm quite nearsighted, and my hubby is almost as farsighted. I am holding out hope on some crazy, mathematical level that the two will cancel each other out. HA!
Roo has always accepted her glasses, so I think they must truly make a difference. Cakes and Sue Sue always ask when they're going to be "allowed" to wear glasses. Tortilla hates them and is glad to be done.
I wore glasses for farsightedness when I was 6 and 7 and then for nearsightedness from age 14 on. And I hated them. In fact, I memorized the eye charts until I was 14, which is the only way I didn't need glasses before then. But somehow my ability to memorize EVERYTHING ended around that age. So, once I got glasses I hardly ever wore them, even in class. I finally got contacts at 18, and it's so nice to see without frames on my face! It was funny going back to my old high school last Christmas and realizing how blindly I walked around school every day. I have to wonder how much better I would have done in school if I'd had contacts from the start - or, of course, had the common sense to just wear my glasses!
My 12-year-old wears glasses, but she doesn't mind them at all. Last visit to the eye dr, we talked about the latest one-use contact lenses designed for kids who are in sports. She could just wear them for the game and then toss them later, but at this point she's fine wearing her rec specs. We'll see what happens as she moves into adolescence . . .
I remember my first pair of pretty glasses. They were pale pink with gold sparkles on them. I thought they were gorgeous.
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