Comments on: Tadpole vision

By: Cass

Cass — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:49:10 +0000

I’ve worn glasses since about age 11. It seemed that my vision just went to hell overnight. I had to wear them; otherwise I couldn’t see anything. When I was 14, my mom got both me and my sister contact lenses (she was 12), and thank the gods she did so! I hate wearing contacts, but I have extremely dry eyes and would not make a good candidate for LASIK. Good thing that your Tadpole is growing up now, so that later on, if she’s a candidate, she has more available options. :)

By: Suziboo

Suziboo — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:45:25 +0000

Oh my God petite, I lived *exactly* what you describe above. Thank heaven for contact lenses. To this day I can’t put my emergency specs on without feeling like a hideous freak. And my youngest son has a lazy eye so may well end up wearing specs too.:mad: I also intend to get him the coolest sexiest glasses available even if he’s only one( baby photos) as I would’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy. Thank you for this post!!

By: zed

zed — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:27:55 +0000

i’ve worn glasses ever since i can remember … i had an operation done in tokyo to rectify a squint, then it was done again in london … and finally i only had to wear glasses for reading (and now the computer).

if i have to wear them full-time, which i feel i should be, then i’m too vain to wear glasses – much as i like them, so will get contacts and glasses.

coralie has had her eyes operated on succesfully, although she still needs glasses for reading and such, and todd has been wearing glasses since he was young. what they both hated the most was having to wear an eye-patch … and i sympathise.

but there are great frames out there for kids – just make sure that they hook around the ears :)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:05:45 +0000

I identify with your “defective pair of blue eyes”! I am very nearsighted with lots of astigmatism to boot, and have been that way since age 8. When I was 12 I was allowed to get contacts because the coke-bottle glasses made me so self-conscious. But the hard contact lenses made my eyes red and watery, with the result that I was nicknamed “Drugs” for several years afterward.

Now I wear soft contacts (whoever invented toric lenses gets an award, if you ask me!) or glasses, according to my mood. Thank goodness for high-refractive-index lenses. This is the first pair of glasses I have ever really honestly liked in my entire life.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:42:56 +0000

I had various traumatic experiences as a young person with glasses, usually involving mean boys kicking a soccer ball into my face and smashing them, or my unwitting sister sitting on them, but as an adult, I too have become reconciled to them. Yes, they are more fashionable and lighter now, and with my astigmatism contacts would be difficult if not impossible. Better by far than being born blind, I say!

By: dan

dan — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:25:31 +0000

Contact lenses are great. But I only wear them (I have magnificent blue eyes whose effect it would be a shame to waste) to pull, which doesn’t happen all that often (any more). Then I get wasted and fall asleep wearing my contacts. This has a horrific effect on one’s eyeballs. Conclusion: If you can’t pull in specs, don’t try to pull at all.

By: Raised By Chaffinches

Raised By Chaffinches — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:03:29 +0000

Sophia Loren wears glasses – and still manages to look very sexy. I don’t think people look at people who wear glasses in the same way as when we were younger.

By: ZürichTram

ZürichTram — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:37:40 +0000

Glasses from the age of 6 to 36, so I understand your comments, but last year I went for Laser surgery and ‘boy’ has that made a difference, that’s the way to go, no more fumberling around in the dark/morning trying to find where my glasses are just as they ‘shoot’ of the bedside table and could never get the hang of contacts so they were a non-starter. Now I have as close to 20/20 as you can get ;-) and loving every moment of it, all those sports I couldn’t do before I’m throwing myself into now , White Water Rafting/Ice climbing to name two that I’ve tried this year… and the ski season starts next week…. :-) Good luck which ever way it goes….

By: Faye

Faye — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:54:24 +0000

What doesn’t kill us, only makes us stronger!

By: witho

witho — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:21:10 +0000

I rarely notice if people wear glasses or not. Sometimes, if someone has taken them off temporarily, I think “oh, they look different”, but I don’t immediately realise it’s because of the glasses.

After the experience you had, it’s not surprising that you’re worried about tadpole, but I would suggest just not making a big deal about it with her, then she’ll just think it’s the norm…