I have had vision problems right from a very early age. For a long time I wondered if it was the school bus accident that blunted my eyesight. I later forgot about the whole incident; but that did not improve my condition.
There are several problems associated with wearing spectacles early on when you are kid. First, unless you are popular or any other kid in the class wore thicker glass than you did, you are ridiculed by all sort of characters; sometimes some teachers as well. I was popular and there were a couple of kids who had as much as 4 times my 'power'; so I was normal. I could also punch anyone into unconsciousness. (I did that once and everyone believed I could do that many times over) I missed my first weekend outing without parental guidance, and Jurassic Park with it (I finally saw the movie a year ago) because I broke my glasses the first day I entered hostel. My dad drove 8 hours to get them repaired for me. Swimming was difficult; so were any contact sports (Anyone aware of any non-human-contact sports other than cricket being played in a field?) and I spent 2 hours everyday playing. It was always difficult to distinguish an 'a' from an 'e' on the black board and every word in high school invariably had an 'a' or an 'e'. I cursed the teachers for their bad handwritings and practised mine hard on four line notebooks to make sure that no blurry visioned student cursed me if I happen to become a teacher myself someday in the future.
My physical education director suggested contact lenses. He wanted his team to win at any cost. The cost was Rs 2000/-. Dad's money. I did not regret it; afterall, all I had to do was slip in a lens that was as thin as a peel of an onion and I could go glass-less. No more spectacle breakage in crowded buses, snazzy lay-ups or fist-fights! But that did not solve all the problems. I still woke up every morning to find everything dizzy around me and missed overnight parties because I will have to give my lenses and eyes some rest. The worst was to travel overnight in buses. I wore spectacles while I travelled but did not sleep with them on. But then there was always a thiruttu VCD being played in the TV after I prepare to sleep and there invariably was a raunchy number or a scene where the villain tries to rape the heroine and I can not deny myself of seeing it. I don't want to see ghosts on the screen and so I scamper for my spectacles before the scene ends only to find the pretty female sitting opposite to me staring at me with disgust. (always a pretty female. why? why? and why disgust?) But who cares? I will not miss it for the girl I will never meet again.
So there you see, contact lenses are also not a solution for my problems. The Renu Multiplus has already eaten away a lot of my savings. That was when someone told me about the laser treatment. Voila! After speculating the pros and cons of my either going blind or having a 6/6 eyesight, I am deciding to go for it. And now that I am attempting my 5th blog and I need episodes to fill its pages to give it 'respectable' appearance, I have decided to chronicle the entire process into something of the likes of a mega serial. So expect more...
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