Half a Hundred Acre Wood

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I no longer need these.

Because I have these.

Wore these to church Sunday night claiming that it was a new prescription.  Gary kept shrugging his shoulders telling everyone, “She has to wear ’em. Doctor’s orders.” I’m currently trying to convince our whole family to wear a pair… in public.

Woke up the next morning and my eyes went BOING.

So diagnosis at today’s appointment? Springy-eye syndrome. (Apparently, I’ve been eating too many curly fries.) Doc says laser won’t work this time. We need a welding machine.

Oh, man! Now I think I’m having serious side effects from the medication.

What the world will I look like after six months of this?  Guess I’ll have to ask my eye doctor if he does laser hair removal, too.

Enough with the goofy eyes. A friend loved my wacky glasses so much that she made a special reindeer cookie this Christmas.

Why wacky glasses?  Because I have struggled so much with faith as my vision goes in and out of focus and I can’t read very well (which is one of my favorite things to do) and my depth perception fails and I fall down stairs and hurt not only my self but also my pride, and it just feels so good to laugh at myself instead of cry out in humiliation and frustration.  It’s fun to laugh, and it’s all just part of healing.

And so… on a little more seriousness note:  it is very difficult for me to look at a computer screen long enough to do the research, reading, and posting required for lesson plans and ideas.  For those who follow Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood solely for that reason, I humbly apologize and ask for grace and patience.  As I sit here now, the text is very blurry and my eyes are already significantly strained, burning, drying out and hurting.  The healing process is not over just yet.  Though I am seeing 20/25 and 20/30 (praise God!) in the protected environment of the ophthalmologist eye-checking room, the reality is that my vision is really pretty blurry the majority of the day.  It will take a couple of more months of countless eyedrops and blurry vision before the tear film rebuilds in my eyes allowing me to truly see clearly.  This means my time on the computer will come in short bursts (which is why I have previously shared these photos via Facebook instead of writing a blog post). Truth is, it may not be until I start planning for next year that I will be able to do the type of blogging and planning that I once did. I plan to still share relevant freebies (mainly via our facebook page), provide a few reviews this spring, and share ideas via blog posts as I am able.  But healing takes time, and time I must take, even though I really love hot-bliggity-blogging.


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