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My Cat Eye Glasses
It was September 1969. I was 6 ½ years old and dressed in my Sunday finest, never mind the fact that it was Tuesday this was a special day. This was the day that we would go pick up my very first pair of eyeglasses. For six long years my parents took me to eye specialists and surgeons to determine what was wrong with my vision. For six long years they listened to different doctors say nothing could be done to improve my eyesight. Many claimed that I would be completely blind by the age of twelve. My parents persevered and found Dr. Shupala and the first thing he said after my eye examination was, “lenses are the only thing that will help your little girl.” He had determined that with corrective lenses I could have 20/400 vision. I would be officially “legally blind.” At six I had no idea what that meant but it must be good because all the adults were smiling and praising God. I was certain it was good news. It had to be good!
Dr. Shupala wrote a prescription for corrective lenses, in other words, glasses and with prescription in hand my mother and I went to the optometrist’s office. Remember, this is 1969; there was no such thing as lenses in an hour. We picked out frames and measured my face and eyelids and whatever else was necessary to insure a proper fit. Now I had to wait two more weeks. Two weeks? I had waited six years two more weeks would be easy.
Then it came, the telephone call that announced my glasses had arrived and we could pick them up. It was an extraordinarily beautiful autumn day. The sun shone brightly and there was not one cloud in the sky. Our trip took about an hour and a half and as we neared the city our excitement grew. My mother parked the car in the Sears & Roebuck parking lot just across the street from the optometrist’s office. She opened my car door but before I could slide off the seat she said a little prayer. Hand in hand we walked across the street. We were early. The shop did not open for another ten minutes. After waiting two weeks those were the longest ten minutes of my life. Finally, the bell jingled, the door opened and we walked inside. We took a seat in a tiny cubicle where on the counter in a stand stood a huge mirror. When I sat down I looked in the mirror and saw a blurry round face with little blobs where my eyes, nose and mouth should be. Nothing unusual that’s how I saw everyone’s face for six years!
A man entered the room and greeted my mother and me with a smile and asked if I was ready to try on my new eyeglasses. I nearly shouted yes as he took my tortoise color, cat-eyed, plastic framed eyeglasses out of the envelope. He placed them on my face and for the first time in my life I could tell that people actually had eyes that blinked with eyebrows and eye lashes! I looked in the mirror and saw my own reflection for the first time: a round freckled face with huge doe like, brown eyes and a squat little nose. I also had buckteeth but who wants to remember that? I could see! Nothing was fuzzy or unclear. At least nothing that was within 20 feet of me. With my eyeglasses I was legally blind which meant I could see at 20 feet what most people could see at 400 feet. They were right though, I could see better than I had ever seen before.
We thanked the man profusely and walked out into the beautiful sunny morning. My mother stopped me at the street’s edge to take my hand while we crossed and I looked up at her and proclaimed, “It’s ok mommy, you don’t have to hold my hand, I can see now.” My mother dropped my hand; I looked both ways and proceeded across the street. I reached the other side and turned to find my mother a few feet behind me with tears streaming down her face. It was a special day indeed!
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