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\nSo when I walked out of the eye doctor that first day with my new pair of glasses, I was in absolute shock as to what I saw. Trees actually had individual leaves that could be seen from a distance. I could actually see INDIVIDUAL LEAVES. This was mind blowing to me. And I could actually see the sagebrush on the mountains, the birds flying in the sky and could read the signs on stores. No, I could SEE the stores. \u00a0<\/span>
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\nI could count five stoplights down the road.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nAnd suddenly, I saw the world. And it was beautiful.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nMy vision has progressively gotten worse over the years. In fact, I am now legally blind. You know the big letter “E” on the eye chart int he doctor’s office?\u00a0<\/span>
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\nI can’t see it.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nLuckily, contacts don’t bother my eyes at all and for those I am incredibly thankful. But, because of all of this I am paranoid about my own children’s vision and want to make sure they are always able to see the beautiful place in which we live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Gwyneth attended her first eye appointment at 18 months old and I am proud to report that so far, all is a-okay with her vision.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness.<\/p>\n
Here’s to being thankful for sight and healthy eyes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I remember the exact day when I discovered I needed glasses. I was at a casino (John Ascuaga’s Nugget, to be exact) eating in the little cafe with my parents one afternoon and I was (pretend) playing Keno, the old-people game with all of the numbers on the screen that you guess will light up. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n