"My Grandma wears funky glasses and I helped pick them out." ..... Joseph
My three young grandsons were called to help their grandmother pick out her new glasses at the optometrist's office. There were all shapes and sizes. some were big and round, some were oval, some old fashioned and some very modern. I wanted something that would reflect on me, my personality, my perspective on life. They had to be different and yet distinguished, Something that would help portray an image of who I was.
Given the opportunity, my three grandsons had their own visions of what I should be wearing. Something a little bit out of the ordinary. Something that reflected how they saw me not how I thought the world should see me.
Knowing I required a special tinted prescription for a very rare eye condition, called Benign Essential Blepharospasm (BEB), they felt something a little bit funky was in order. What they helped choose has raised a few eyebrows and questions from my generation and received complimentary comments from the younger generation.
BEB is rare neurological condition in which there is an involuntary blinking of the eyelids as well as episodes of eyelid closure (spasms) that may be forceful and sustained.
"blepharospasm is often initially mis-diagnosed as allergies or "dry eye syndrome". It is a fairly rare disease, affecting only one in every 20,000 people in the United States." From Wikipedia
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