(CNN) — I used to chuckle at people who complained about their glasses — their thin, wispy glasses.
It sounds snobby. But I was blind enough to be an honorary bat.
In kindergarten, I got in trouble for constantly leaving my seat to approach the blackboard, but I couldn’t read it otherwise. Coke-bottle glasses quickly followed. I graduated to contacts at age 10; by 30, anything more than 3 inches past my nose was impossibly blurry without them.
As with many who can’t see without corrective lenses, I always carried bottles of eyedrops and saline solution. I fumbled for my glasses even to read the bedside clock. I spent hundreds of dollars on contacts each year.
I love to travel, and I’m also a worrier (though I prefer the term “highly prepared”) by nature. (read more ..)
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