My Beautiful Green Eyed Girl......
has been complaining that she couldn't see very well at school now for a couple months.
You would think that having a mother that has worked with eyes for several years, would make it easy to convince her that you have a problem.
But No.
It took a few weeks of complaining to convince me. I just thought it was a phase of "wanting glasses" or something.....
So I made the appointment with one of the Doc's I used to work with. And yesterday was the day..... and yes, my poor girlie is Nearsighted!
Just a little right now, but geez.... I really didn't think she would be needing glasses or anything.
So, just a mild prescription.... and just needs them when she wants to see things farther away really clearly. So yeah, when the dreaded day comes that she is driving, she will definitely need them.
The thing that really caught me off guard was how hard this appointment was going to be for ME. I has been 2 years since Lamont died, but dang that was hard! I wanted him to be there....
looking at her eyes....
sitting in that chair....
making his jokes about what things he could see in her eyes...
and talking to me.
I spent countless hours with this man in that office.
Thousands of eye exams.... and that just doesn't go away.... I re-played memories in my head the whole time... I could "hear" him talking and know exactly how and what he would say.
I could "see" the way he held the slit lamp, indirect, and the lenses that he would use for examinations.
I saw his writing on Kristian's previous exam forms.... and I could picture just how he would hold the pen and his writing technique.
I wasn't prepared for the memories...... but so grateful for them. That's all I have left.
And Thank goodness my Beautiful Green Eyed Girl will be seeing really good again....... SOON!
