A couple years ago, I ordered an eyepatch because my vision has gotten pretty wonky in the past 20 years.
My right eye was the first one affected with optic neuritis and years later, my left eye joined the party. I wear the patch watching basketball with my son or watching any fast action movie. I’ve even worn it when I go to the movies but don’t put it on until the house lights go down. Recently, I think Leia got a hold of it and frayed the strap a little bit but that didn’t bother me:
It was during my ophthalmologist appointment last week and the four hours of testing when Dr. Skarf determined that a prism could really help me out with the vision in my right eye. He didn’t want me to get glasses at the eye care center but told my Mom to just go to, “Walmart” or a store like that to get glasses without a prescription in them. He would put the prism in once we brought him the glasses.
I got onto Amazon to order them. I had never ordered glasses online before like this so I just went with the pictures to decide if I was going to buy them or not:
The description says that the are, “Non-prescription nerd glasses.” As my Mom took the glasses to the doctor, I thought of a book I read 30 years ago. It was from the book series, The Babysitters Club Little Sister:
I thought of this book specifically because, Karen, the protagonist, had glasses. They were red just like mine and she gets a pair of blue glasses just before her school picture. She didn’t know which pair to wear for her picture. She ends up wearing both of them:
So, even though my glasses are neither red nor blue, I thought of this one. My Mom and I watched a movie last night and I put the glasses on. I could see clearly and when I turned my head to the right to look at my Mom during the movie, I could see just one of her which I liked. It look like the prism was helping. Here’s what that looks like:
