Update on the eye thing
Sep. 15th, 2008 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenSo I went to the eye doc this morning. I'm better than I was, but not as good as I could be. So contacts are now forbidden for at least two weeks. On the upside, I can get my glasses updated. On the downside, I won't get the new pair until later this week.
My current prescription gets me to about 20/40ish. Which is better than the 20/1000 I am without glasses (no, that's not a typo) but even so. It's frustrating to not be able to see things clearly. I can drive and do some stuff on the computer (esp once I change the settings) but trying to focus on things, such as complicated spreadsheets, or reading, or knitting, or words on TV, or anything around me... not so much. For those of you with glasses already, try to imagine going through the entire day with fingerprints all over your lenses and not being able to clean them. That'll get you in the ballpark of what it's like for me.
On the upside my doc, who also teaches classes, said I am now officially a cautionary tale! So that's something I can cross off the list of things to do before I die. Go me!! Also I'm still on the medicated drops, which are actually steroids. So right now my eyes could bench press 500 pounds, which is pretty cool.
Now if only it could be later in the week...
My current prescription gets me to about 20/40ish. Which is better than the 20/1000 I am without glasses (no, that's not a typo) but even so. It's frustrating to not be able to see things clearly. I can drive and do some stuff on the computer (esp once I change the settings) but trying to focus on things, such as complicated spreadsheets, or reading, or knitting, or words on TV, or anything around me... not so much. For those of you with glasses already, try to imagine going through the entire day with fingerprints all over your lenses and not being able to clean them. That'll get you in the ballpark of what it's like for me.
On the upside my doc, who also teaches classes, said I am now officially a cautionary tale! So that's something I can cross off the list of things to do before I die. Go me!! Also I'm still on the medicated drops, which are actually steroids. So right now my eyes could bench press 500 pounds, which is pretty cool.
Now if only it could be later in the week...
