I love going to a new eye doctor. I enjoy watching their face as they examine my eyes and realize what they are looking at.
Today's doctor said, " Well, as I'm sure you already know, you are very unique."
See, I have one eye that's near-sighted and one eye that's far-sighted. (No I can't tell you off-hand which is which.) Most people are either near-sighted or far-sighted. I'm both. Heehee. And we didn't even discover this until I was 18 years old. My brain had learned to use whichever eye it needed to see so I didn't think my vision was bad. It wasn't until I started getting headaches that I went to an eye doctor. The doc made me wear glasses for a year to retrain my brain to use both eyes to see and then I could get contacts.
But for the last year plus, I've been wearing my glasses. I don't have a back up pair or any contacts. So when I dove headfirst into the obstacle course at the inflatables place and landed on my two year old and bent my glasses, I was out of luck.
Hence, today's eye visit. Ironically, this morning I was blowing my nose and I felt something really funny on my eye. It took another blow or two to figure out that AIR was blowing out from the corner of my eye. I told the doctor this too and he just looked at me again and said, "Well you are unique aren't you? Some people have an open connection between their eyes and nose. Rare but not unheard of. The weird thing is that you never felt it until today."
Should I go back and tell him that it must have closed up because I don't feel it anymore? I'm kinda scared of what will happen if I blow too hard.
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DUDE! You could be one of those people that can squirt milk out of your eye! You could get a world record or something.
Wow! I can just hear Kiran at Show and Tell time. Right after she says, "Guess where I was born", she comes back with "And guess what my mommy can do?" Nobody will be able to top that.
WEIRD. Did you get some new glasses at least?
If I could only figure out how to squirt milk out of my eye.
I actually am going back to contacts for a little while. Sienna is at that age where she grabs and bends my glasses all the time. Plus I'm ready for a change.
haha! That IS very unique. Which incidentally I think is a nice way to say strange. ;) In an endearing way, of course.
Nathan is all about my glasses, too, and it drives me NUTS. But I don't love wearing my contacts either. Let me know if you think of a brilliant toddler-training solution besides saying "no, we don't touch glasses" eight times a day!
we have always know you are special, Kelley! now we finally know why. :)
Okay, so, I have the connection between my nose and eye, but I've always thought it was normal and thought it happened to everyone. I never knew that it was rare or uncommon til I read your post. I've never talked about it cause I really thought everybody was like that. I have major allergies, so I blow my nose so often...and my eyes too. Ha ha! but, it doesn't affect my vision anyway.
I knew we were BFF for some reason. Hooray for people with weird eyes! Though I do think yours is weirder than mine. :)
Merritt being born blind in one eye is way weirder than my eye issues.
My favorite part of this post is your label for it. I know something new about you now.
I don't know, Kel. I mean, I have vision in one, not in the other. Pretty easy to figure out. But you - nearsighted AND farsighted. Well, that's just plain wacky. I won't even bring up the air thing.... :)
Which one of us was written up in a medical journal? Not me.
game. set. match.
Don't you love it when you go to a new eye doctor and he/she says, "Hey did you know that you have...(insert unique trait here)?" Like when I go and they ask me if I know that my right eye is a different color... Umm, no, I never noticed, but thanks for telling me. Merritt, do you get that, too?
I think doctors just assume that my eyes are different colors because of the tumor or something. I don't know. They never say anything about it. Maybe it's because they are so excited about getting to shine their light in an eye that doesn't give a whip. It's like a rush for them or something.
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