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   LadyMont (ladymont@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 07:07:48 JST LadyMont
   Babies getting glasses.
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     EmmyNoether (emmynoether@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 07:07:47 JST EmmyNoether

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     • Bricky

     @thatbrickster @LadyMont I don't get your comparison with ear piercing.

     A friend's baby had to have glasses.

     She (the mother) had contracted CMV during pregnancy and her child was born with cataracts, so had to (a) be operated on pronto to remove the cataracts, and (b) wear glasses because she no longer had lenses in her eyes. Without glasses, she wouldn't have seen enough for the optical cortex of her brain to develop. So there wasn't really a choice. It was operation plus glasses, or go blind.

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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 07:07:47 JST Bricky

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     • EmmyNoether
     @EmmyNoether I hadn't realised there was a serious case for this. I'm sorry for my unsolicited interjection and realise it was wrong for me to make the comparison I did.
     
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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 07:07:48 JST Bricky

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     @LadyMont I thought the 'tradition' of piercing their ears after birth was bad enough.