Eyeglasses...here we go again!

A few of you may remember me having glasses in college and in my early youth. At about 8 years of age, I started having a lot of headaches, and after doing CT scans of the brain and some other tests, they found nothing in particular except the right side of the brain was bigger than the left side. The doctor said maybe the right side of the brain may be pressing against the skull and I would grow out of it. After Mom and Dad thought about it, they took me to see an Opthamologist. He found that I had Esophoria for both eyes and Amblyopia in my left eye. This means that my eyes have a tendency to turn inward and the point of focus happens in front of the object I'm looking at, not right on the object. So my eyes are constantly trying to focus and fighting with eachother to maintain focus. So, I had to get glasses as well as do eye exercises using different lenses to look at cards I was given. I think I wore a patch too for a while to help my left eye "learn" to focus.

While in in high school, I got glasses with bi-focals and prisms in them. The prisms helped my eyes to pull outward and therefore my eyes focused on the object and not in front of it. The headaches went away and all was well....until I left them in a booth at a restaurant in Chicago. Oops...I never did go back to get a new pair. The headaches returned, but not as often and not nearly as bad. I meant to get glasses again, but never got around to it.

Remember the eye exercises I did as a child? Well, they helped my eyes and the glasses kept the benefits of those exercises intact. But, when I lost the glasses and didn't get new ones...for 15 years..I undid all the benefits those exercises gave my eyes.

So at the present time, after having headaches about everyday and my eyes getting so tired after starting college again, I went to see an Opthamologist. After 5 hours of testing, he concluded I have significant Esophoria and Amblyopia in the left eye, plus the vision is bad. Not real bad, but enough. So, I'm getting glasses again..with bifocals and prisms. I better not lose these pair! I should get them this week, so next time I come visit y'all, I should be 4-eyes once more...LOL