Up until this point, I never thought of my grandparents as two separate people. They were like contact lenses. You had two of them; you used them to help you see things more clearly.
But now that I have lost one, I realize they are much more crucial than contact lenses, they are like eyes. It is much more devastating to lose an eye than a contact.
Now my vision is not only blurry, but I'm dizzy and disoriented; it is much darker now than it was when I had two. I am much more dependent upon the one I have left. I cling to and protect what I still can.
Now life goes on and you can adjust to living half blind, but you are never quite the same.
Telling people you have 20 vision, instead of 20-20, just sounds wrong.
... Lauren Leavell
(written for her grandfather's memorial service)
But now that I have lost one, I realize they are much more crucial than contact lenses, they are like eyes. It is much more devastating to lose an eye than a contact.
Now my vision is not only blurry, but I'm dizzy and disoriented; it is much darker now than it was when I had two. I am much more dependent upon the one I have left. I cling to and protect what I still can.
Now life goes on and you can adjust to living half blind, but you are never quite the same.
Telling people you have 20 vision, instead of 20-20, just sounds wrong.
... Lauren Leavell
(written for her grandfather's memorial service)
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