I conquered one fear of mine this week. I finally decided “to put on my big girl panties” and go get my eyes checked with hopes of getting contacts.
It’s a horrible story — I had to start wearing glasses for reading a few years ago. I was teaching and speaking weekly and didn’t want to be toying with glasses the whole time in front of people, so I decided on a cute pair of progressive lens spectacles. I have battled those things ever since, even though I adjusted to the progressive lens pretty quickly.
I did NOT want to wear glasses. Seriously, I really didn’t want to wear glasses so I just started printing out my notes and outlines in 97 pt. print. OK it wasn’t that big, but big enough for me to see it.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, this past year even that 97 pt. print was getting hard to see as I glanced at it while speaking. Mercy sakes, I had to begin wearing those glasses while speaking. Urgh! Call me a brat and tell me to get over it, but I don’t like wearing glasses when I’m speaking. So, with everyone betting against me, I gutted it up and went for an appointment for contacts this week.
The Dr. began asking me about my “living style” and what I did. She wanted to know specifically why I didn’t like the glasses. We visited quite awhile about me speaking, writing, etc. and how my glasses affected that . . . (quit laughing)
Finally, she said she’d work with me until I was “functioning happy!” I almost hugged her. I told her that was just the phrase I needed to describe this dilemma to my hubby. “I’m just not functioning happy!”
Girl – I can’t tell you how excited I am to be working with someone who is going to help me “function happy.” Can you feel my silly giddiness building?
The thing is we should all be helping each other function happily in this world. We each battle our own struggles and burdens. This week I attended and spoke at A Woman Inspired Online Conference. WOW, what a way to help each other function more happily. I spoke on our “dirty laundry” and how we let so many things hinder us, slow us down, and burden us until we can no long function.
Christ came to help us function happily! He wants our struggles – no matter how big or small – our burdens and our frustrations. He wants it all so we can rejoice in Him and be happy.
To build upon my talk I offered a give-away of three of my Dirty Laundry Secrets Bible studies via random drawing. And I am thrilled to announce that the winners are: Denese Waddill Barber via facebook, Nicki Chevalier Koziarz of Three Girly Girls, and Susie Terry Mozisek of A Pink Carnation in Bloom. If you are interested, I am going to leave the $5 EBOOK special up on my blog until Monday. Check the top right hand column out.
Blessings my friends as you splash around in God’s sudsy bucket of grace!
Amazingly, it is time we all come clean and begin functioning happy!
Congratulations!! I hope you are 'functioning happy' very soon with your new contacts. I can't wear the things….my eyes are too dry. So, I just go for really cute progressives. Right now I have the Sarah Palin style.
Leah
Hi Sis,
Wow I love your new blog look !!!
Hey Thanks for the vote, I'll go check it out . I want to get some contacts too, you are so right especially when teaching a workshop or speaking I have to keep taking my glasses on and off "UGH".
Hugz Lorie
I know all to well about the glasses. I've finally surrendered to them for long distance,it was embarrassing waving to someone, I thought I knew.
For reading my print as become quite LARGE also…I need to look into bifocals. Contacts don't work for me:(
love and hugs~Tammy
proud of you for doing the difficult journey to functioning happily ever after, I will keep praying for you! Just kidding, sister, just kidding!! I do know the frustrating of glasses, been wearing them since I was a year old.. after having my first eye surgery before then!! I wont tell you how old I am, but lets say this, my glasses back then probably cost 1 penny, compared to them just a few months ago, where I paid over 500 buckaroos for this pair – and they wont ever make my eyes any better .. my prescription is as good as it gets, sigh!!! but I am thankful to see… and yes, happily functioning visually.. although my mind is questionable about functioning normally sometimes! love you, sister… proud of you for taking that painful step to being old!
My optometrist says I will never function happily with contacts, I just have to wear the progressives the rest of my happy little life:(
Hope you really do find the contacts that work for you. For me, well I just have to speak with glasses:) Blessings
Girl I hear ya!!!! My "over 40" eyes can see across the room just fine. It is reading that is the problem. I've tried no prescription on top bifocals (lined and progressive) and I adjusted to the bifocal, but having the things on my face drove me crazy! Dr. says contacts are not an option. I finally decided If I'm going to have to wear glasses after all, I'd spend $25 dollars on some readers rather than $500 on the bifocals.
I'm always taking them off anyway so when I lose my "readers" I don't feel as bad as when I lose the expensive specks from the doctor. :) Now I only put them on when I'm reading and writing–but lately I've noticed that when I eat, my food looks a little fuzzy…What's up with that? 8-(