THIRD GRADE
Tara really wanted to get rid of glasses. Having worn glasses since the third grade, Tara was really sick of them, so she wanted to look into lasik eye surgery. She had glasses that were as thick as the bottom of coke bottles, then. They were heavy, horn-rimmed glasses and sat like a ton of bricks on her nose. She was nearsighted. She didn't know it but she was having trouble seeing the blackboard. She just thought everybody squinted. Later, she got wire rimmed glasses, which had thinner lenses, but were still heavy. She was always breaking those too. They weren't made so well. As time went on, Tara got contact lenses and she found out that I couldn't wear those. They bothered her eyes, burned them, so she couldn't leave them in for any length of time. Finally Tara got a really bad eye infection and quit wearing contacts all together, until the new soft lenses came out. Those were a little easier, but they still bothered her. And she still got infections. Then she heard about laser treatments, and wanted to give them a try. She had heard about some side effects, but she thought it was still worth a shot to get rid of glasses. Tara just wasn't going to be the first to do it. So she waited until the technology was out for a few years. Sue was the first of her friends to get lasik, and she swears by it.
