[stylist] having obviously different eyes

Mon Feb 16 20:59:27 UTC 2009

I first saw it as a poem that Ma wrote in Laura's autograph album when 
Nellie Oleson made her mad.  My husband is googling it right now and someone 
has written that they think it's from a McGuffey Reader and he also saw it 
in something by Charles Spurgeon.  So the answer is I don't know.  There 
were 284 references that Google came up with.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:49 PM
To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] having obviously  different eyes

> Barbara, I love that quote in your signature, who said it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:35 PM
> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] having obviously different eyes
>
> I was born with microophthalmia so my eyes were small and a milky-white
> color.  When I was six I had an unsuccessful cornea transplant so my left
> eye shrunk so the eye never opened.  I didn't get a prosthesis until I was
> sixteen and the ocularist made it look just like my right eye.  I went to 
> a
> residential school so dating was discouraged.
> In collegeI sort of dated one guy who could see.  Until I met my husband, 
> he
> was the only sighted guy who showed any interest in me.
> Since I got prostheses that look like "normal" eyes when I lost my sight
> completely earlier this decade I think I got more positive responses from
> people.  I still have a hard time remembering to look at people when I 
> talk
> to them and that usually throws them off.
> But no longer do I have to hear the children out there ask me why my eyes
> look funny and keep telling me to open them.
> It can be disheartening but just try to be a likeable chap and surely 
> there
> must be someone who is mature enough to know you can't judge a book by its
> cover.
> Barbara
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
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> From: "Justin Williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] having obviously  different eyes
>
>> Outstanding.  I am happy for you.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Kasondra Payne
>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:07 PM
>> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] having obviously different eyes
>>
>>
>>
>> I was born with cataracts in both eyes.  The cataract in my right eye
>> was removed when I was a baby, I developed glaucoma in that eye some
>> years later.  The cataract in my left eye was removed when I was
>> thirteen, and I had some sight in both eyes for the next year and a
>> half.  My retina in my right eye detached during my freshman year of
>> high school after a surgery to control the pressure.  Later, an
>> inflammation invaded the remaining eye, and caused a lot of pain and
>> havoc.
>>
>> At about that time, a young man named Shawn entered my life.  We had
>> met in church several years before, but we hated each other.  Finally
>> we decided that the other was worth a second look.  Even though we
>> were too young to date, he was my closest friend, and he attended
>> Church dances and activities just to be with me.  He understood how I
>> had been teased and left out because he had got it too because he was
>> overweight.  He is one of the few people who knows what I looked like
>> before I got my prosthetic shell over the emploded mess of my right
>> eye.
>>
>> Shawn and I dated during most of high school.  We drifted apart, and
>> we didn't see each other for four and a half years.  I dated others,
>> but they weren't right.  I had believed as a teenager that Shawn was
>> the right one for me.
>>
>> I thank God that he brought us back together in January of 1999.  We
>> were married on July 17, 1999.  Shawn has always accepted my
>> blindness, and he joined the NFB before we got married.  Shawn is
>> sighted, and sometimes he has become the default driver for events,
>> and he is always willing to help.
>> He has learned Braille and had cane travel lessons.  Two of our
>> children are blind,  and he has been right there wit me to make sure
>> that they have the education and skills they need.
>>
>> Yes, my eyes look different.  Sighted people think my right eye is
>> real, and they do not believe that it is fake--until I pop it out and
>> show them.  I am so thankful that I have a sweet man by my side who
>> accepts me no matter how my eyes look!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Canaday M.A. N6YR <n6yr at sunflower.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:04 PM
>> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [stylist] having obviously different eyes
>>
>>
>> I'd posted this under the thoughtprovoker-love, and thought I'd repost
>> on its own topic in case anybody wants to discuss this. I found and
>> fixed some typos, too.
>> I understand what you express about your eyes, I understand it 
>> first-hand.
>> I was born with a half dozen eye deformities, some of which weren't
>> supposed to occur in the same eyes. the miracle was I had some limited
>> left eye vision until I was thirteen when a generalized inflamation
>> whiped out my retinas in the seeing and unseeing eyes. so, besides the
>> deformities, my eyes then always looked perminently bloodshot. one eye
>> was smaller than the other.
>>
>> I could never ever even think of getting a date in high school. many
>> times on the high school campus I would first become aware of one or
>> more girls staring at me because I would hear "eewwwwww!" I did go to
>> the Prom, a third party arranged for me to go with a Japanese girl who
>> had braces. I don't think she was happy to go with me but she did. we
>> had no relationship after that.
>> when I was twenty-five, the scarring from that general inflamation was
>> calcifying, hardening, and one of my birth defects was glaucoma. put
>> these two together and you get very painful eyes.
>>
>> so, mine were removed. the eyes I have now made by the occularist are
>> quite nice and people really like them. they absolutely cannot tell
>> they are prosthetics.
>>
>> yes, sighted women love to look in their men's eyes, especially at
>> special moments. but there are women who are of a deeper disposition
>> who will see your heart, and if you have a good character, they will
>> find that very attractive Justin.
>>
>> having deformed eyes is hard, I won't lie to you about that. but there
>> are other things in life. and the really good women won't be put off
>> by deformed eyes.
>>
>> ---
>> to add, after the removal of my eyes, it took me some months to adjust
>> to having prosthetics. that was hard too. it felt strange, though my
>> ugly deformed eyes were gone I had to learn to use the prosthetics and
>> to have them as part of my appearance and who I am.
>>
>> jc
>>
>> Jim Canaday M.A.
>> Lawrence, KS
>>
>>
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