Glasses. I'm just not quite sure how people are able to wear them. I'm a little more than 1 week into my "three weeks out of contacts" phase before LASIK surgery and I'm going crazy! I feel like people are staring at me like I have coke bottle lenses.
I'm constantly pushing my glasses back up my nose because I often need to lean over to assess patients or pick up a little one. You'd think my long nose would prevent them from sliding down, but it doesn't. Apparently, glasses can really change your appearance. Patients I have been seeing weekly for the last three years have asked who I am. Does adding spectacles really make you look that different?
Working out with glasses on has been challenging. I've tried running with them on, but my face just gets sweaty, making the bridge of my nose slick, forcing me to constantly push my glasses up. I literally spent the entire run using my right index finger to slide my glasses up. So now I just choose to run without them, wearing bright colored clothes, hoping cars will yield to me. If only I had light up shoes. This past weekend my mom and I ran the 5 mile Hot Chocolate Run. I told her I was not going to have my glasses on so she'd have to lead me. She reminded me that she wouldn't be wearing her contacts or glasses either. The blind leading the blind. We survived.
Do most people have prescription sunglasses? What about those little clip on things? Are those still around? What if you're out shopping at an outdoor mall, going in and out of stores. Do you keep changing from your glasses to your prescription sunglasses? I'm sure I'd leave one of those at a store. Last weekend I started a new fad and wore my sunglasses OVER my glasses at the Hawkeye football game.
Little ones LOVE to pull glasses off your face. DQ thinks this is a fun game and spends nearly every evening taking my glasses off, trying to put them on herself or back on my face, while placing her slobbery fingers all over the lenses. I eventually just have to put them on the counter which usually causes her to voice a complaint.
I used to work with a PA who wore only glasses. He said he would never wear contacts after seeing pictures of corneal infections and ulcers at his ophthalmologist's office. I always thought he was crazy for saying that. Although these are rare it's possible. I think of all the years I have been sticking a foreign object on my eye, and praying my solution will kill any bacteria as my contacts take their nightly 8 hour bath before I wake up the next morning and pop them back in.
Here's to hoping I won't have to wear contacts again after 12/5/13. I know I will eventually need reading glasses, as we all will after having 40 some birthdays. (Seriously, does anything get BETTER as we age?). I'm hopeful that time will be many years from now. It's scary knowing I will be having this elective surgery just for the convenience of not having to wear contacts. My sight is everything. Without it, I can't work, drive, browse facebook, or watch my little ones grow (the latter which is most important of course).
So to those of you who wear glasses, props to you. I couldn't do it; hopefully I can survive these next few weeks. (A patient really did call me Four Eyes this week-it hurt my pride a little bit).
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