{"id":6304,"date":"2025-03-20T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/bibliotheek\/the-eye-is-fixed\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:13:59","slug":"the-eye-is-fixed","status":"publish","type":"library_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/library\/kolommen\/the-eye-is-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"The eye is fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-03-20T15:49:00+01:00\">20 March 2025<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her younger sister, Lot, never asked about it either. Lot sometimes gets mad because I cheat during her \u201csleep game.\u201d We pretend to be asleep, and you\u2019re supposed to close your eyes. But since my prosthesis can\u2019t move, I can\u2019t close that eye.     <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My daughter\u2014Maan and Lot\u2019s mother\u2014looks at me, and I can tell that Maan\u2019s question has surprised her, too. I give a reassuring nod and tell Maan that I had surgery on my eye a long time ago. There\u2019s a silence, and then Maan asks a few follow-up questions: \u201cWhy did you have surgery? Did you have blood? Did it hurt? Did you have to throw up? Did you get better?\u201d I give her the simplest explanation I can come up with. My eye was sick and couldn\u2019t be fixed anymore. That\u2019s why I got a \u201cfake eye\u201d that can\u2019t move and that I can\u2019t see with. But now I\u2019m not in pain anymore, and I\u2019m completely better.       <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maan and Lot have been listening intently. Maan sighs and nods approvingly. Lot points her little finger at my epithesis and says, \u201cThe eye is stuck\u201d\u2014apparently, she suddenly understands why I cheat at her sleeping game!    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next day, my daughter tells me that the girls understood the story and are busy playing hospital. They\u2019re treating teddy bears and dolls that suddenly have all sorts of ailments. They have fevers, bleeding wounds, broken legs, sore throats, and so on. \u201cBut\u2026,\u201d my daughter says with a laugh, \u201cyou\u2019re going to find what\u2019s wrong with her favorite doll absolutely hilarious.\u201d A little while later, she sends me a photo of the poor little doll that\u2019s had surgery on her eye!      <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anita Hol-Bubeck  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to visit my 4-year-old granddaughter Maan, who\u2019s recovering from surgery. She had her tonsils removed. The poor child looks pale and is in pain, especially when talking and swallowing. She looks at me and asks in a hoarse little voice, \u201cGrandma, did you have surgery on your eye?\u201d She knew there was \u201csomething\u201d wrong with my eye, but she\u2019d never asked about it before.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6305,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"library_cat":[112],"class_list":["post-6304","library_pt","type-library_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_cat-kolommen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_cat?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}