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pablope
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When my son, who always wanted to sit on the back, took time to write what was on the board. The teacher called our attention to have his eyes checked. About a week later, the doctor said he needs glasses.
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Sunbreak
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I was about 9 years old when it was discovered that I needed glasses. The nun told my parents she thought I needed glasses because the numbers for math problems I copied to my paper from the blackboard weren’t correct (although I computed the correct answers for the numbers I actually wrote down). I’m glad that it’s not such a stigma to wear glasses as it was back then. My parents acted kind of horrified and checked my ability to read the big print on cereal boxes at a distance before taking me to the optometrist.
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trinichiqn
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I have been wearing glasses since I was 4, my teacher sent notes home. My school also had yearly eye tests but this was before they came to the school for that year so it was pretty early on in the school year but no one else had ever caught it even in my pre-school.
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Sarabande
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It’s good that you are getting her eyes checked out. Even if it turns out there is nothing wrong with her eyes, it’s better having a professional test her. I was about 3 or 4 when I got glasses. My pre-K teacher noticed that I was having problems seeing things from far away and mentioned it to my parents (I was constantly squinting and trying to sit up closer to the teacher), so they got me checked out.
My father is legally blind without his glasses and he didn’t get glasses until he was 12 . He said everything he saw prior to that looked like a Monet painting. The entire world changed for him when he got his glasses. Prior to that, he just thought that was how everyone saw the world, so he never thought there was anything wrong. His teachers did mention to my grandparents that he might have vision problems, but my grandmother listened to her sister-in-law that there probably wasn’t anything wrong and to not listen to them, especially since he wasn’t complaining about not being able to see. But she finally listened to her instincts and got him checked out. She always felt bad about not listening to the nuns earlier on.
I haven’t noticed anything with my daughter’s sight yet, although I’m watching for it. So far, it looks like she took after my husband who has better than 20/20 vision. At her 3-year-old visit, they tested her eyes (just simple reading shapes or letters on a card from far away with each eye) and she did well. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that both kids will take after their Daddy with their eye-sight.
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Sarabande
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Poor kid!For some of you feeling bad about waiting too long, or not noticing, I have a story for you that will hopefully make you feel better.
When my son was 14, he and his friend were hanging out in his room. His friend found the old doorknob to the bedroom in a box and was tossing it around (it was a cool, old fashioned knob). The knob came up and smacked my son just above the eye and broke open the skin. My husband and I took him to the emergency clinic and the attending dr. said everything looks fine, but he noticed my son has an astigmatism. He noticed it when he had my son stare forward and follow his fingers.Something none of us noticed, not even my son, till that day. So don’t feel bad!
My dad always joked that he never got into sports because he’d always get hit in the face with a baseball whenever they’d play. He thought he was just bad at it, not that he couldn’t really see the ball until it came right to his face. Because of that, he got into music instead. haha!One thing his bad eyesight saved him from was fighting in the Vietnam War. He was Number 2 (it might have been 3) in the lottery. Shortly before he went in for his physical, he got detached retinas in both of his eyes. He was rejected and couldn’t go. There was a lot of guilt at the time because so many of his friends, as well as a brother went, but I’m glad he didn’t have to go over.
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Serap
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Last night my daughter asked me if she could get pink sparkly glasses if she needs them.
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Nechasin
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Another benefit of going to Mass. I noticed my daughter kept look ay my hymnal to see what page the song on that was being sung. So I asked her to read the board and she couldn’t. So I knew we needed to take her to the eye doctor to have her eyes checked.
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Sarabande
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If she does need them, that would be so cute if you can find them for her.I had those awful, large-rimmed glasses. A complete, four-eyed dork if you ever saw one.
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bellsonhertoes
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I was 10 years old at a baseball game with my Dad, who is nearsighted. I had been tested and no one thought I had a vision problem, but I put on Dad’s glasses when I was being silly and about jumped out of my seat. I believe I said, “Woah! I had no idea the scoreboard looked like that!” I had glasses within a week.
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TheRealJuliane
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Haven’t seen any frames like that, but you never know.
Just try to make sure the optometrist helps her pick frames that suit her face and flatter her. There can be a world of difference in frame styles and colors - it’s amazing that the exact same frame in a different color can almost disappear on someone’s face while another color stands out and makes the eyeglasses the first thing you notice about them. Some people don’t mind having stand-out frames, I would rather they be a part of my look rather than the effect of the first thing someone notices.
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Anne1964
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I was 10 and eating in a restaurant with my parents. My father laughed at a sign on the wall and I asked him what was so funny? He said the sign on the wall and I said what sign? I could not see the sign itself, let alone the words on it.
I was amazed when I put on that first pair of glasses. Who knew the front yard had *individual *blades of grass in it? The detail was amazing
I was amazed when I put on that first pair of glasses. Who knew the front yard had *individual *blades of grass in it? The detail was amazing
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fbl9
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I was 10 and eating in a restaurant with my parents. My father laughed at a sign on the wall and I asked him what was so funny? He said the sign on the wall and I said what sign? I could not see the sign itself, let alone the words on it.
I was amazed when I put on that first pair of glasses. Who knew the front yard had *individual *blades of grass in it? The detail was amazing
i know what you mean.
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Serap
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oh you poor thing!I was 10 and eating in a restaurant with my parents. My father laughed at a sign on the wall and I asked him what was so funny? He said the sign on the wall and I said what sign? I could not see the sign itself, let alone the words on it.
I was amazed when I put on that first pair of glasses. Who knew the front yard had *individual *blades of grass in it? The detail was amazing
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TheRealJuliane
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I was the same with leaves on trees. Amazing indeed! They just looked like green blobs to me!I was 10 and eating in a restaurant with my parents. My father laughed at a sign on the wall and I asked him what was so funny? He said the sign on the wall and I said what sign? I could not see the sign itself, let alone the words on it.
I was amazed when I put on that first pair of glasses. Who knew the front yard had *individual *blades of grass in it? The detail was amazing
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fbl9
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i wonder how long we would have went thinking that this was the way things were/are?
what was it that kept us from thinking that our sight wasn’t right?
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TheRealJuliane
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Kids don’t know that the world isn’t like they see it. We just accept that what we see is what everyone sees. I didn’t have to wait as long as you did for my first pair, but my eyes would get worse every year, so my prescription always had to be increased, and then I could see the leaves again.
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empantarhei
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For me, the usual: couldn’t see the blackboard in jr high
For the unusual, my nephew couldn’t follow the pediatrician’s fingers for the general exam at four months.
Was sent to a specialist, to be sure all was okay with his vision. Comparatively, he was fine.
But he had his first pair of glasses at five months. With him, insurance!! He adapted soon after throwing the third or fourth pair across the room… Again, unusual…
For the unusual, my nephew couldn’t follow the pediatrician’s fingers for the general exam at four months.
Was sent to a specialist, to be sure all was okay with his vision. Comparatively, he was fine.
But he had his first pair of glasses at five months. With him, insurance!! He adapted soon after throwing the third or fourth pair across the room… Again, unusual…
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Serap
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THAT would have been TOUGH!
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EasterJoy
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Yes! Individual blades of grass, and you can see them from inside the house!! How could people see that every day and not say anything!?!I was 10 and eating in a restaurant with my parents. My father laughed at a sign on the wall and I asked him what was so funny? He said the sign on the wall and I said what sign? I could not see the sign itself, let alone the words on it.
I was amazed when I put on that first pair of glasses. Who knew the front yard had *individual *blades of grass in it? The detail was amazing
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Santi2
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I was already bespectacled at age 8. The nuns called for my parents to take me to the opticians when I requested to be placed closer to the chalkboard as I could not make out the scribbles from my assigned seat. They also noticed that I held my books less than 6 inches from my face and squinted when when I read.
Two of my grandchildren are the same. They started wearing specs at age 8. For the same reasons. We took my youngest grandson to the opticians at age 5 when he complained of trouble with his vision. In his case, however, it was a false alarm. All for the sake of being copycat and was found out soon enough when he was told to read the script. It will be good to see the optician who will know what is best for your child.
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