{"id":6027,"date":"2016-08-29T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:37:34","slug":"101-dalmatians-2020-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/101-dalmatians-2020-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"101 Dalmatians & 20\/20 Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1910034_509145321661_3165_n\"<\/a>When I was 9, my BFF Lauren turned 10 and to celebrate we went to see 101 Dalmatians in theaters. I forgot to bring my glasses. We had to sit in the front. She doesn’t remember this, but I always did. She forgave me, apparently, and we stayed friends (and eventually she needed glasses, too.)<\/p>\n

I’ve worn glasses since I was 7 or 8, and contacts since I was 12. Over the years, I have had various times when wearing glasses has been a nuisance or inconvenience:<\/p>\n

The time I lost a contact in the ocean and had to walk back to my beach house half-blind.<\/p>\n

The times I wanted to stay for a sleepover but couldn’t because I didn’t have contacts on me.<\/p>\n

The time I lived in China for 2 months but the smog was so bad I had to wear glasses for most of the trip.<\/p>\n

The several times I had to schelp to the store after arriving somewhere on a trip to get contact solution so I didn’t have to buy a hundred travel sized ones.<\/p>\n

The time I put my contacts in two bowls because I couldn’t find a contact case and one of the bowls hadn’t been cleaned thoroughly enough and somehow I got garlic in my eye the next morning.<\/p>\n

You get the idea. Not the worst thing, but glasses and contacts haven’t been the best part of traveling, camping, sports-playing, etc., over the past 20-something years of my life.<\/p>\n

\"20140929_131100_DSC_1838\"<\/a>\"10399494_549504536471_162879_n\"<\/a> \"24325_536225158756_395265_n\"<\/a>Wearing contacts and glasses have always been part of who I am. But I am happy to say on Friday I am getting corrective lens\u00a0surgery<\/strong> so I will no longer need these fashion accessories (although maybe I’ll get some clear lenses for old time’s sake.)<\/p>\n

There are a handful of things I am SO EXCITED about: being able to see in the middle of the night; waking up on a plane and not feeling a jolt of panic at the blurry surroundings; going camping in the backcountry without needing to bring in lots of contacts, soap, etc., to guarantee my hands are clean enough to put contacts in…the list goes on.<\/p>\n

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This is something I’ve been wanting to do for years, and I can’t believe it’s finally going to happen. I’ve been wearing my glasses all week in preparation of the surgery, but by this time next week I’ll not need anything anymore. I will have just a little more freedom than I have now. And I am so, so thankful for that. Even though I am nervous (lasers near my eyes, yikes) I know this is going to be the beginning of a life-changing experience for me that will change the way I live my life. I can’t wait. I’ll never make anyone sit in the front row of a theater again.<\/p>\n

Here we go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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