Blind As A Bat (One With A -5.5 Prescription) (941 hits)
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Submitted by Lynne's Return (View user info) at 2005-07-11 01:41:28 EDT
For a 5 year old, glasses are better than kool aid. Every 5 year old wants glasses.
And braces.
And crutches.
There's something about these little handicaps that infatuates us when we're young. In kindergarten and first grade, I used to (as random, painful, strange, and maybe even disgusting as this sounds) put staples or rubber bands on my teeth and pretend like I had braces. Any time another kid would have to use crutches, we always wanted a turn to walk on them. I was jealous when my sister got glasses. Why?
Today, I regret wanting crooked teeth and the means to straighten them.
Today, I regret wanting a broken ankle and the means to walk with it.
Today, I regret wanting vision problems and the means to solve them.
I lied on my first ever vision test.
Can you blame a 6 year old who has always wanted glasses? I've had glasses since the first grade and my prescription is now at a staggering -5.5. Not blind, but I couldn't live without glasses or contacts. My prescription is worse than my dad's. As I type this, my contacts are sticking to my corneas after a full day's use, making my eyes cloud up. What I wouldn't give for a few glasses-free days back. Getting glasses that I didn't need is probably what screwed up my eyes in the first place. I was in such a hurry to be fixed that I ended up breaking myself pretty badly.
Did I mention that the words "eye" and "surgery" in the same sentence make me cringe? Nobody's cutting my eye open. Even if it will make me see better.
I guess that means that I'm stuck shoving slippery little disks under my eyelids every morning for... forever. Thanks a lot, 6 year old Lynne. Stupid bitch.
Now 18 year old Lynne has to squint her cloudy eyes at everything.
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Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-07-11 18:09:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Laser eye surgery is great, I highly suggest you get it. You can see immediately afterwards.
Submitted by Lynne (user info) at 2005-07-11 17:59:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Maybe one day, i'll unblur the picture.
Maybe.
Submitted by Mike00295 (user info) at 2005-07-11 16:51:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Thats what the ladies look like to me at around 4am after a night of serious drinking. Even with the bluriness, I sense a pretty hot lady. Holllla
Submitted by tat2dcoyote (user info) at 2005-07-11 14:52:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i never wanted braces. i had them for ~5 years.
i never wanted glasses. i got them my sophomore year of high school.
i'm now at -3 in my right and -3.25 in my left. mild astigmatism in my left eye, and about 3mm of blood vessel growth in both eyes...
hi, my name is kryss and i'm a contact lens abuser.
Submitted by doctorj24 (user info) at 2005-07-11 12:03:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yup, blurry girl = hot.
I'm -1.75 in both eyes. Near-sighted. Definitely enough where I have to wear contacts.
Submitted by missflibble (user info) at 2005-07-11 10:23:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i hate my specs from time to time. but i hate contacts more.
i wear varifocal glasses. i too wanted them as a 5 year old, but didnt have the (non)sense to lie onmy eye test so didn't get them till I was 15-and actually needed them.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2005-07-11 09:19:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I got teh 20/20, but my wife is in the -7 range for both eyes. Yeah, she can't see jack shit.
She'd kill for eye surgery though, but her eyes are still changing, so they won't let her. Boy, that's gotta suck, huh?
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-07-11 09:15:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I used to want braces too, when I was in about the 3rd grade. A lot of my friends had them and I thought they looked cool.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-07-11 09:10:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Uncorrected, I can't see anything past arm's length.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-07-11 08:55:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-07-11 08:47:43 (#)
Ranking: 1
-6.5 in my right eye
-6.0 in my left
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I wasn't this bad 2 years ago when I last got checked. Things are likely to have changed by now. Welcome to the "Blind as a bat" club!
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-07-11 08:47:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
-6.5 in my right eye
-6.0 in my left
I couldn't live without glasses or contacts either. It sucks.
Submitted by jinhenkim (user info) at 2005-07-11 07:47:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i'm almost blind too
Submitted by jack0173 (user info) at 2005-07-11 06:59:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-07-11 06:30:48 (#)
Ranking: 2
Laydeees with glasses are hawt.
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-07-11 06:30:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Laydeees with glasses are hawt.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-07-11 06:21:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I hate the thought of eye surgery too- I've just got contacts and I'm currently going throught he trauma of trying to get them in and out, and also they keep falling out.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-07-11 03:09:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
wow, you're the best looking blurry girl i have ever seen.
hey, i look good in blur.
aw who am I kidding, i'm a monster however blurred I seem.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:49:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Just the thought of getting eye surgery makes me nauseous
Submitted by whiskey_jack (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:48:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
In blurry I like the way your put together. On another note I must add that peach cobbler with some icecream is one of the fucking best desserts EVER!
Submitted by Pr0j3ct (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:45:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You look hot. In a blurry kind of way.
If the words eye and surgery in the same sentence make you cringe, then what if a doctor said to another doctor: "You really have an eye for surgery." Would that make you cringe? huh?
I don't know. I'm tired. That was stupid.
Seriously, though, I would do you, bad vision or not.
It would be like doing a blind chick.
What would that be like?
hmmmmm....
Submitted by absolutes (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:32:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
In grade three I was excited to be getting glasses (the HUGEST ones ever made, I'm assuming), and proudly showed all my friends and teachers.
I'm now 18 and up to -6.something in both eyes.
I feel your pain.
Submitted by Alaskanite (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:27:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Vision before contacts: -3.5
Vision after contacts: 20/20
Vision after some coldbeers: MAYBE's become YES's (sp?)
Yeah totally unblurr that shit baby whoot whooot yeah *burp* ... uhh ... sup?
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:20:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have 20/10 vision.
Submitted by Gizmo (user info) at 2005-07-11 02:14:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That's about what every girl looks like to me without being a foot in front of them.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2005-07-11 01:58:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
oh and if you could, un blurry the photo please.
thanks.
haha.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2005-07-11 01:57:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I really, really feel your pain.
Im around -3.75 or -4.00 and i have an astigmatism in my left eye.
its hard searching for your contacts when you drop them while trying to put them on.
welcome back?
Submitted by Banga3386 (user info) at 2005-07-11 01:52:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have this thing where I wonder to myself ideas like "I wonder what it would be like if I couldn't use my arm" or "I wonder what it's like to not be able to see" "or be arrested" then inevitably something comes along and helps me to experience these things.
Now I try to wonder about "what would it be like if I could see through walls/ could go on tour/ become Jeremy Irons' understudy" but those never seem to come to fruition.
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