Ol Blue Eye

Ol Blue Eye Shaan

It’s a funny and frustrating story, but perhaps it makes sense if you had seen me over the past year and wondered “why do Shaan’s eyeglasses have one blue tinted lens.” Last fall I got my annual eye exam and new eye prescription and when figuring out my glasses and lenses I was told to get a blue tint to reduce eye strain from reading electronic devices like computers and phones which emit blue light. It made sense as blue light from devices can actually also impact your sleep cycle when you look at a screen late in the evening or at night. I received the glasses and wore them and they were great.  After 7 months my youngest son asked “why do you have only one blue lens in  your glasses when seen outside and they go to a dark tint.” I didn’t know what he was talking about and took my glasses off to investigate. To my shock the left eye lens was indeed blue tint while the right was not. I was also surprised nobody else but my son noticed and said anything. I had not…

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