Thursday, May 21, 2009

Elementary Eye Care

My friend’s eyes were always crimson-sore – they looked like a dying fire. So, the obligatory oculist opportunistically ordered optical lenses. The ersatz eyes arrived, but the raw discomfort mulishly remained. Rather than return to the pricy eye doctor and risk racking retinal surgery, we ’wimped’ back to the ABCs. We discovered that if my friend laved his still-sleepy phiz at first light, then he didn’t drive his hands to his eyes. The soreness soothed, the burning breezed away, and into the bin flew the gainless glasses.

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous21 May, 2009

    An interesting way to look at things. But did all this really happen?

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  2. Dear Anon,

    With Creative Nonfiction (which some purists even insist is not a proper genre) you only need to commence on facts. After that, you can pretty much go anywhere.

    There is fact and created fact strewn all over this one. :)

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  3. Yes NY!
    Most of the solutions to the XYZs are found in the ABCs.
    Thanks for the lessons!

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  4. My pleasure, Posekyere. Lessons to me too!

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  5. He's an opportunist, that doctor! hehehe.

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  6. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe he has what a lawyer mentor calls "High-voltage thinking". They think about all the complex things and miss the simple ones.

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  7. I went that route once. I decided glasses weren't for me...until my last check up. My eyesight had worsened! Like really badly. Now I'm forced to wear glasses. To make matters worse, there is a HUGE X on my drivers license stating I need corrective lenses behind the wheel. Sigh.

    Your friend is lucky though. Bad infection maybe?

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  8. Can we see pics of you in glasses? Just kidding. Bad, longlasting infection for my friend, maybe.

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  9. Moral is sometimes problems have much easier solutions than one can imagine :-)

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  10. Yebo, Ada, that is the moral for sure.

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