Fun Fact #14

I have worn glasses since the first grade when Mrs. Secrist noticed that I wrote on a slight angle.  I have astigmatism in both eyes -- my left eye is worse than my right.  I've had pink frames, brown frames, raspberry colored frames, silver-wired frames...

Currently I have two pairs of glasses - black, super geeky glasses that I LOVE!  And then a pair of purple-ish/lavender frames that I like. 

Mostly I wear contacts.  I got contacts in high school.  I remember I had to pay a portion of them - so I saved up my babysitting money.  My first pair of contacts were rigid gas permeable ones.  Those poor things went through the wet-dry vac once.  No worries - with those lenses, the eye doctor could "buff them up" back good as new. 

When I went to college, I discovered soft, disposable contacts.  I love them much more than the rigid ones. 

For a couple years, I wasn't the kindest to my eyes...I didn't realize the importance of changing my lenses monthly and going to the eye doctor every 12 months.  Now - I am very careful with my eyes.  It's funny but seeing extremely close-up pictures of my eyes (when I wasn't kind to them), it kind of freaked me out.  The eye doctor said, "You are harming your eyes!!!"  And he was rather stern...which got my attention.  Sooo after 12 months of wearing my glasses 70% of the time and resting my eyes -- my eyes, for the past 5 years, have progressively gotten "better" which seems silly since our eyes are supposed to get worse.  Apparently the unkind things I did to my eyes can be somewhat reversed.  I am convinced too that eating healthier has helped my eyes.  All my organs are happy and they love me!  It's such a good feeling.

~ Four Eyes

Because 4 Eyes are better than 2...all the cool kids know this!