Graciously Getting Glasses! Well, sort of…

For a long time, I had known my eyesight was depleting. It had been 20/20 for a while than 20/25, but then it turned into 20/40 and 20/30. I was alarmed by this, but the realization of it all was yet to come. I had to go to an eye doctor! I thought it would be in and out. But I was stunned, baffled and all the other ways you say surprised when we actually got there.

First, there was the waiting room. It held some intimidating pictures of disease and something called UV radiation.  And then there was this play area with some typical doctors toys. There were a scattering of movie painting also hung along the walls. And then there was a wall displaying glasses, with a spinny thingy that towered as high as me. There was beyond a few glasses on display. But that looked small compared to the glasses room.

There were numerous shelves, each one speckled with glasses. There were metal glasses, plastic glasses, and nerd glasses. And then each one of those glasses-types was divided into subcategories. There were blue, square, half-nerd, metallic, shiny, glasses, nerdy plastic round glasses, and tons of other types. And each pair of glasses looked different on me. Mom liked some round nerd-ish ones because they looked intellectual, and I didn’t argue. But when we tried them on, they looked despicable and unpractically round. But before we could match or classify anymore classes the clerk called “Nathan Breslow!”.

The eye doctor’s room was ominous. There was a big chair, a stack of books, and a computer with a  mesmerizing, color changing dot. The eye doctor himself was okay. After we briefly introduced ourselves we got to the test. Suddenly the mesmerizing, color changing dot vanished, and in its place was a bunch of letters. The eye doctor told be to read them “H, H, O, T…” Then the eye doctor pushed a button and the letters got smaller “H O O V T…” BEEP! And smaller… ” L P umm… O H V er…” BEEP, and smaller “H.. J… er…” until I could only make out a vague black line. Then the eye doctor nimbly slipped an eye patch on! Then we did more letter reading “H O O V… hmm. U O U”, then he switched the eye patch, and we started up again. “H I umm…” and then letters shrunk to the familiar vague line of text. Then he started rapidly switching lenses in and out of the eyepatch and performed a series of tests. First I looked at the computer and saw a blur. Then some vague letters. And then a sign reading 20/20! I sighed with relief, but it turned out the tests weren’t over. He switched out more lenses, displayed some red and green letters (I think it might have something to do with the fact that they are opposites on the color wheel). Then he showed to me a book with some drawings, and then the tests were done.

What a relief! But then the info came in, and I wasn’t so relieved anymore. My vision was 20/60 20/30! That is the worst vision in my whole family! But the good news was, after picking out a pair of glasses, it was time to go home. I don’t think I will ever forget that experience. I can still see the ominous, color changing dot, pulsing in my head…

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