Great challenge, took me a while to think about the story and I was looking through my photos for inspiration and I saw tons of me in glasses and I thought this story would be fun.
I have worn glasses for as long as I can remember. I believe I got my first pair at about 5 years old. According to my Momma (who was told this by the next Optician), I was only supposed to be wearing glasses temporarily, but a very elderly optician gave me glasses that were too strong and they damaged my eyes. I was never really self-conscious about wearing glasses, I always made my parents buy me jazzy pairs that they hated, but I loved them. As I morphed into a teenager, I learnt how to use eye make-up to make my eyes a feature from beneath my lenses.
Fast forward many years - 28 to be precise and I was working with a girl that was about to have Lazik, I hated wearing contacts, but I had had a horrible experience. My glasses broke and I got stranded at the train station, as I couldn’t read the board to find my train home, it really shook me, so I got contacts. Hearing about this surgery got me curious, so I proceeded to go and have several consultations - some of the places were very very suspect. So, in the end, I went with the most expensive place, because you know, my eyes!
It was the weirdest experience.
Before they start the surgery, they sit you on the operating table and ask you to read the sign above the sink - obviously being as blind as a bat, I couldn’t read it. 12 mins later and the smell of cooking bacon (that is what burning flesh smells like..), I sat up and the surgeon asked me to read the sign now. For the first time in 28 years I could read something without my glasses. I cried. A lot. Hubby came to get me after the surgery and eye-rolled me all the way home, as I couldn’t believe that I could read every sign!
The recovery period is quite odd, you can’t wash your face, you have to sleep in sunnies and NO TOUCHING your eyes, because it’s an open wound - ew!
15 years later I still have 20-20 vision and as promised by the surgeon I would only need to wear readers because I have a problem with super fine print and that could only be corrected for 3 years.
I think this is the reason I am obsessed with glasses. I have tons of readers and sunnies, because they can be off the shelf and I buy them all over the place. I like odd colours and shapes. I can break them, get bored with them and it doesn’t matter, because they are inexpensive and I can also donate them to my local nursing home if I don’t want them any more or if my prescription changes.
The thing is, I think that I was born to wear glasses, they suit my face and I have always loved wearing them. So a slightly unhappy start to my glasses ‘career’ has become the very essence of me!
I used -
SwL -
Winter Wisp template
Kim Jensen -
Girl Friday kit
Allison Pennington -
May Stuff
