Every year at Thanksgiving dinner, we would be asked at the table what we were thankful for that year. I could never think of much other than the usual trite responses — friends, family, food, etc. I never felt like I was being sincere.

This Thanksgiving, I genuinely have something to be thankful for. A lot, actually.

I’ve always had poor vision. I avoided wearing glasses as a kid, preferring to go around half-blind rather than being made fun of. I didn’t get used to wearing glasses and later contact lenses until I was 16.

Pierre LaBossiere

Beginning about three or four years ago, I noticed that even with contact lenses, my eyesight was getting markedly worse. I started needing reading glasses pretty much all the time. I could no longer read my phone and was forced to use a laptop all

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