When I was younger getting glasses wasn’t a cool thing or anything to be happy about. More so in elementary school. No one wanted to get glasses, because you’d be called things like ‘four eyes’ and… well whatever else. I don’t know because I never called anyone anything like that, and I didn’t actually need glasses until high school.
Kat wanted glasses for awhile, and then finally did need them. It made her look so grown up!! D:
My kids… on the other hand, WANT glasses. So far, Sisi is the only one not to need them, well Risi doesn’t either, but she’s a baby and doesn’t have an opinion other than.. ‘gimme your glasses they look awesome!’
In March of this year (so March 2014) all the kids had their yearly eye doctors appointment. Lisi claimed she had trouble seeing but the eye doctors said “nope it’s fine…” Okay then… Var needed glasses (which they’d said before that he was fine too, but things can change fast??)
Var has glasses, but loses them at times… I lose mine more though
Come late May at her 8 year appointment at the pediatrician they do their own little eye test and her left eye completely fails. “She needs to be seen by the eye doctor” they tell me, but what can I do? Insurance covers it once per year and we’ve already had our once. So I shake my head and try and figure out how the heck I am going to do anything about it. Maybe she was just fooling them and pretending her eyes were worse than they were? The eye doctors claimed Var was doing that the year before.. but… ugh..
So I tried to figure out what I could do, insurance covers once, and I knew we couldn’t afford to go to their usual eye doctors and pay out of pocket. It’s just not an expense we could afford.
School starts and she’s struggling to see the board and having headaches and eye strain. So, sucking it up and calling the eye doctors I see what they can do. Turns out they oh hey, they can actually contact the insurance and get her in if the insurance will approve it. A couple days later and I get a call, it’s approved! She can go in early!! It’s been 4 months since her appointment at the doctors and it took too long.. but she can go in!
Guess who suddenly DOES actually need glasses?
Yep, Lisi!
Guess who had her first ever pair of glasses show up today?
She can see!!
Yep.. Lisi! Hah. In all her happiness at being able to see, she has her first pair of glasses. No more having to sit at the front of the class and having headaches from not being able to see properly. Whew.
Seriously, she wants glasses and I’ll never know why….
Of course you know what Sisi said? “I’ve wanted glasses forever! Now I’m the only one of the big kids without them!”
Seriously, why would you want glasses kiddo? o.O
Because glasses are cool.
I guess, I still hate how they hide my eyes. >.> I couldn’t imagine Kat without glasses… I’m still trying to get used to Var in glasses, and I didn’t know who the girl in my living room was earlier when I glanced out of the kitchen and saw Lisi with hers!! Which was a strange feeling, considering I was right there picking them up with her today!