I finally got glasses. I was trying to go my whole life without having glasses, and I basically

still do, but I decided to get them. I have joined the world of glasses wears. Well, I'm not

fully joining it. I live in it at work, and then I retreat from that world when I leave. And so

I just wanted to talk about that today.

Welcome to the Council of Trent. Mondays and Wednesdays we talk apologetics and theology,

but Friday, well, we talk about whatever I want to talk about. And I just got glasses. And I got

glasses for one of my children. And there's new technology now to help children with issues

to their eyes. I really wanted to share with you about in today's episode.

Okay, so there's what happens. I go take my children in. They get to go and do an eye exam. And I found out that one of my children has nearsightedness, myopia. And it's something that we hadn't recognized before and I'm really grateful he's still very

young so I'm grateful that we took him into the eye doctor to go and do all the test to recognize

this because it turns out like the doctor asked him you know do you ever have to really squint

to see things on the board or do you have a hard time seeing things on the board at the front of the class? And so we hadn't noticed before if he was sitting like at the front of the class. But like this year, he's sitting his seats more in the back of the class and he can't read the board as well. He has to squint really hard to see it. And that strains his eyes. So it turns out that he has childhood myopia or near-sightedness.

And so there's different things that were recommended for treating it because if you don't treat near-sightedness, as the eye grows, as a child gets older, the near-sightedness gets worse over time.

Now, it can be treated with laser surgery, but you can't do

laser surgery on children because the eye is still growing, so you have to manage it. And so it can get

worse. And they used to just have eye drops and other ways of treating this. But now they have just a

new pair of glasses that if you wear these glasses, it can treat the issue at hand.

So we helped him with that.

I'm going to tell you a little bit more about this here in a second.

But back to me, it's about May.

So I decided, I mean, you know, it's been a while since I had an eye exam.

I'll go and I'll do an eye exam.

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