Personal Narrative: Myopia And Astigmatism

My blindness affects me because before I had started driving, I was scared to death to think my chances of having vision in one eye would put me at a much greater risk of endangering either my life or someone else’s. Since having started driving, I’m a lot better at driving with only one eye than I thought I would be. I have to turn my head to the left a bit more and be a little more cautious when going on highways but other than that, it’s going well. I have to wear glasses due to having Astigmatism in my right eye. When I was in gym class, I would panic during high contact sports because if I got hit hard

“What is this for?” I asked, pointing at the funny-looking equipment in front of me. At that time, I was about 5 years old and did not know better. My curiosity must have impressed the optometrist as she was left in silence, but she answered,” This is a phoropter.” I remember seeing the dancing bear and the letters through the phoropter as she changed the different lenses. When I looked through the different lenses, some of them were quite fuzzy while others were almost as clear as crystal. My optometrist told my parents and I that I needed glasses, so when I went down to the store that sold glasses. There were so many choices.

I have had glasses for all my life, I don't think my eyes were ever perfect. My mom and I have the worst eyesight ever. I have astigmatism in both eyes and I have both near and far sighted in my eyes. Everyone in my family wears glasses so I guess it was inevitable for me

Day by day my eyesight got worse, all the doctor I went to see told me they didn't know from what I was suffering, today since two years I'm completly blind, when I could still see, I would read novels, play videogames. You may say it was because of that, but my vision deteriorated way earlier than that.

My inspiration for wanting to become an optometrist was jump-started by my aunt Rosemary. My aunt suffers from dry macular degeneration, and she first started losing her eyesight when I was about five years old. I have always been close to her, and I have seen her vision deteriorate. Today she can see peripherally. I have watched as she lost her driving privileges and was forced into an early retirement. I always viewed my aunt's condition without an appreciation of how lucky I truly was to have normal vision. However, In the summer of 2002 I visited an optometrist for the first time. Since that first visit to the optometrist 13 years ago, my eyesight has drastically deteriorated. I currently have a correction factor of -7.25 in my right eye, and a correction factor of -8.0 in my left eye. My vision has stabilized, but my high correction power, coupled with observing my aunt's macular degeneration, allowed me to understand that the gift of vision may not be an everlasting gift. I want to do my best to help people make the best of what may not be an enduring attribute of their lives.

Why Optometry? It’s the question that has been asked ever since I gained in interest for this profession and it is still being asked to this day. I want to become an optometrist simply because I love what this profession has to offer. My desire to pursue optometry stems from my passion to help others and putting others before myself, and becoming an optometrist would allow me to continue to do so while improving the quality of life. After working at an optometry office, volunteering at a clinic, and shadowing multiple doctors, I can’t see myself doing anything else than being an optometrist.

This past summer, I had the opportunity to serve as intern at a summer camp for blind children. Knowing that, despite their disadvantages, there was no excuse for a lack of effort, I witnessed them perform tasks that I had previously believed to be impossible without sight. Cooking, for example, was done with ease, so long as the children had confidence in themselves and their abilities. Through observation, the themes of effort and ambition became abundantly apparent. Similarly, my athletic career has displayed these themes. My introduction to sports began at age three with soccer. Though too young to acknowledge the presence of deeper meanings at the time, soccer had embodied the ideals of effort and ambition within me. These two principles

Children who need prescription lenses will exhibit warning signs at school, too. At your next parent-teacher conference, ask if the teacher has noticed anything, such

Have you ever wondered about how eye sight effects the game of basketball? I have been playing basketball since I was 5 years old. I would always wonder how I would perform if I had glasses or only had one eye. In my science fair project I'm going to put that to the test. I want to get information about this topic to help my team and I.

Upon hearing those words, my head snaps to the worse case scenario imaginable. Anything could be possible. Death, ultimately, would not suffice in this ordeal; however, knowing Mercy for quite some time, she could transform a serious matter into a laughing joke.

In second grade, when I placed my glasses on my face for the very first time, I entered into a different realm of reality—a reality where I could see things for what they truly were. I was intrigued by the way my eye doctor was able to help me in maintaining a keen eyesight during each annual exam visit. Being able to see clearly is one of the most valuable assets to have when living in this world because not only does sight constitute the majority of our perception of things, it also allows us to form a closer connection with our surroundings. For this reason, I have chosen to become an optometrist and improve the vision of others so they, too, can truly see all the world has to offer.

As a little girl I had my life completely planned out. I was going to graduate high school and enlist in the military. The ultimate goal was to become an Army Veterinarian. Being a veterinarian in the service would help me gain a lot of hands on experience in the veterinary field. Also, the military would pay for my schooling. My plan was very well thought out. But, not everything works out according to plan.

They think that she is having a bad “eye” day so they do not expect her to complete her work because she is having trouble. Her problem is not the work or her eyes, but a change in her environment. The other myth that affects her is myth number 4, that the fact that she may be able to see close the same distance as a normal child her age means she doesn’t have a visual impairment. Even though Davi has trouble with several of the things others do like reading facial expressions and social skills she hasn’t been able to receive as much help, because she has been suspected of having a

Today while talking with my friend about this, she told me that both her son’s eyes are lazy. He is five, and he has trouble looking at things straight, and he has to tip his head back to see things straight. Now that he is five he should be ready for his surgery. I think that it would have been interesting to know someone that did. When she talked about the prism she had to get in her glasses, I use to have that. Mine was not that bad, but it was so weird looking through my glasses. After wearing them for over four years, now I do not wear them at all. It took me a while to get use to them. When reading this story I was trying to picture what it would be like looking through her eyes, and what she was missing. My feeling about when she was a baby, and the doctor said it would fix itself, was upsetting. Sue’s parents, even though at the time this was the best advice for them, they could have had a second opinion. As Sue got older she started doing a great deal of work with eye exercises. She was doing taxing fusion exercises for twenty minutes a day, and with doing this she started to perceive depth at a greater distance. It is really wonderful that she went and researched her eye conditions and took the steps to fix

It had been weeks, no- months since you had started to get the visions of an eye-patched man inviting you into the Avengers Initiative, and you could feel that today was going to be that day. You hadn't blinked in ten minutes, your eyes fixed on the door.