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azurelunatic) wrote2014-06-15 11:49 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2014-06-15 11:49 pm
the windshield wipers of the soul
So I finally organized myself enough to get an eye exam on Saturday. After mumblety amount of time. The change in prescription is perceptible. There are little cracks in the edges of my lenses.
I decided to go for the embedded eye doctor in my local Costco, because reasons and also walk-in. I picked a decent time for it.
While there's still no direct substitute for the patient writing down their info and someone taking that and stuffing it into the computer system, at this particular office the system for doing so involves a transparency marker and a laminated sheet, so the office manager can wash off the sheet after the patient leaves and re-use it for the next new patient. Yay, saving paper!
Apparently the change in my eyes has been them improving. I'm still very nearsighted, but not as much as I once was. I can be corrected to 20/15, and if I'm allowed to look at the 20/10 line long enough, I can pattern-match the shapes with perfect accuracy. Eye pressure's fine. Since it had been so long since my last eye exam, I wanted to get my eyes dilated even though there had been no indications of a problem last time. No contacts for me -- my face doesn't look right without glasses.
I had trouble reading the labels on the well-lit glasses displays, but finally found something in dark titanium that I liked. (After a childhood of broken plastic, I'm going with titanium now.) I like my current frames well enough, but the coating on the temples is starting to chip off and I felt like a bit of a change.
The bathroom at Costco is apparently crowded at that hour on a Saturday. I'd forgotten to bring my cane in with me, so waiting in the line made me somewhat nervous. (I am often fine to walk unsupported, but standing still is painful and stressful.) After that, I grabbed some fruit and checked out, still without my cane.
I was fine driving with the little sunglasses (and it's surface streets all the way there and back, most of them residential) but when I got home and could barely read the computer screen, I got very tired and fell over in bed.
Today after I was properly awake, I went off to the Zennni Optical site and put in an order for a backup pair of glasses. Since I can in fact get my prescription in inexpensive frames for under $20 apiece including shipping, I have the feeling that this may be my new hobby for the next few months: get glasses in somewhat more daring frames that I might not have wanted to commit to as my always glasses, with the intent of stashing them in handy places (glove compartment, work emergency gear bag, go-bag at home) if it turns out that I don't super want them on my face.
I don't know if they'll arrive until after I leave for the conference, but wheeeeee! New glasses!
I decided to go for the embedded eye doctor in my local Costco, because reasons and also walk-in. I picked a decent time for it.
While there's still no direct substitute for the patient writing down their info and someone taking that and stuffing it into the computer system, at this particular office the system for doing so involves a transparency marker and a laminated sheet, so the office manager can wash off the sheet after the patient leaves and re-use it for the next new patient. Yay, saving paper!
Apparently the change in my eyes has been them improving. I'm still very nearsighted, but not as much as I once was. I can be corrected to 20/15, and if I'm allowed to look at the 20/10 line long enough, I can pattern-match the shapes with perfect accuracy. Eye pressure's fine. Since it had been so long since my last eye exam, I wanted to get my eyes dilated even though there had been no indications of a problem last time. No contacts for me -- my face doesn't look right without glasses.
I had trouble reading the labels on the well-lit glasses displays, but finally found something in dark titanium that I liked. (After a childhood of broken plastic, I'm going with titanium now.) I like my current frames well enough, but the coating on the temples is starting to chip off and I felt like a bit of a change.
The bathroom at Costco is apparently crowded at that hour on a Saturday. I'd forgotten to bring my cane in with me, so waiting in the line made me somewhat nervous. (I am often fine to walk unsupported, but standing still is painful and stressful.) After that, I grabbed some fruit and checked out, still without my cane.
I was fine driving with the little sunglasses (and it's surface streets all the way there and back, most of them residential) but when I got home and could barely read the computer screen, I got very tired and fell over in bed.
Today after I was properly awake, I went off to the Zennni Optical site and put in an order for a backup pair of glasses. Since I can in fact get my prescription in inexpensive frames for under $20 apiece including shipping, I have the feeling that this may be my new hobby for the next few months: get glasses in somewhat more daring frames that I might not have wanted to commit to as my always glasses, with the intent of stashing them in handy places (glove compartment, work emergency gear bag, go-bag at home) if it turns out that I don't super want them on my face.
I don't know if they'll arrive until after I leave for the conference, but wheeeeee! New glasses!
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The hella huge kind? :D
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Peripheral vision is useful.