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Optometrist, Dr Harry Sirota, died in on Saturday, February 27, 2010

 

My experience:

 Three times, I had the great blessing of being his patient.  During each visit, he gave me pre lens fitting  and post fitting exercise.  Once the exercise was to close my eyes, turn in a circle, attempting to stop exactly where I had started.  Another exercise was to walk down a hall and through a door, then walk backwards back to where I had started, noticing the emotions of these movements.  Another exercise what the most comfortable distance for him to stand. (For me, in the pre test, it was as far away as the height of his body so that if he fell flat on his face, he would not touch me.  On the surface these were innocent tasks, but they brought up great emotion for me.  One exercise was to walk outside of his office on South Shore Avenue in Chicago and notice how it felt.  Before I had my new lenses, I felt unsafe and could hardly wait to return to the safety of his office.  After I got fitted with my lenses, the activity given at the beginning of the session was done with ease, was delightful,  I had grace and skill doing things that had initially been difficult.  There was always a huge change.

 

Toward the end of each visit, as all eye doctors do, he would place an “E” on a screen in front of me. Then he would then say, “Close your eyes and keep them closed.   As he switched the lenses, he would say:  “Which one feels better?  This one?   Or this one?”

 

 This process was much easier for me (and felt much more appropriate) than the standard practice of optometrists of asking me to identify which looked clearer.  On my first visit, after going through a series of choices I described one as, “I feel a little bit out there (meaning more vulnerable), but I think I can handle it.”  That is the pair that I got.

 

Wearing my new lenses, he gave me a chance to feel what it was like to wear these new glasses.  The busy street which had been initially scary felt like an enchanting place to be.  I felt as if I was on psychedelic drugs when looking at his potted plant—it’s colors were beautiful and its three dimensionality was fascinating and rich—unlike anything I had ever seen.  Each time I loved my new lenses because wearing them made me I feel empowered, balanced, joyous. 

 

 

 

 

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posted by Sally on August 17th, 2010 at 6:07 PM

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