CLEAR: I Can See Now

WOW, I had no idea that the world I see, was blurry. I knew that things far away from me caused me problems to see. Like my daughter in the school play and my seat at the back of the auditorium. I couldn't really see her, she was blurry.

This is how I have lived the last few years. The only glasses I have ever needed was, over the counter reading glasses, so I had no idea why I couldn't see things far away. 

I got glasses this week and I can not believe how CLEAR the world looks. It's AMAZING! How could I have lived in the world of fuzzy for so long? I guess it's because I could still see, I could still do things that the blind cannot.

This last summer my Aunt Dorothy was in her home and in a split second she was blind. She had perfect vision before that moment. She still drove her car and played golf at the age of eightysix. She had no warnings of this irreversible medical condition. There she was in her home, and complete blindness overcame her. She searched for the phone to call for help and had to figure out where the numbers were. The doctors told her, there is nothing they can do, she will always be blind from now on.

WOW, how can this be? How sad it would be to see, and the next moment in time you cannot. You cannot ever see again.

Here is my Aunt Kathy, helping my Aunt Dorothy to eat.

My mother also has become blind. My mother developed macular degeneration. Yet my mothers blindness has come slowly and she had time to prepare for it. My Aunt did not.

When I put my glasses on, and the world was CLEAR, I thought of my Aunt Dorothy and my mother. These are old women who carry on. Old women who will not learn braille, as that would be way to hard at their age They are amazing women who still smile even though they cannot read a good book, women who still laugh even though they cannot read their bills. 

Here I am so happy, because a piece of glass made the world look like GLORY to me this week. Here I am enjoying a pleasure they never will. 

Blindness would be horrible for any of us, who see. Yet none of us know what   our fate will be as we age. Yeah, it crosses my mind that I will become blind as two people in my family has. It also crosses my mind if I will develop Alzheimer's. Dorothys only son developed early onset Alzheimers. She was taking care of him, when she became blind. He is in a nursing home now in his early sixties, yep, my cousin. He developed it in his late fifties. That also worries me. But we cannot know what our life fate is. We can only keep going forward living the best life we can helping others. And if life dishes out these hard circumstances, well, we just live them.