I got my eyes checked this afternoon, complete with dilation. I can't believe all of the stuff that they did. I feel as though there is no part of my eyeball they didn't examine, which I guess is a good thing. My how times have changed. I'm still not seeing all that well, but I did get sent home with a pair of those awesomely groovy sunglasses.
I've not gotten my eyes checked for a really long time. It's not that I have a problem with the thought of needing glasses. Let's face it, it's a fact of life and it's what happens when you get older. In other words, at least in my opinion, it's no big deal.
I think my husband got really tired of me moaning and groaning that the light in the house was insufficient and my daughter got tired of reading directions on medicine bottles and boxes of brownie mix. There were those two things, plus the little fact that my arms had shrunk in length that finally spurred me on to making an appointment.
Thankfully I have good insurance because Lord love a duck, those glasses can be expensive. I only needed them for reading/computer work. I've got a bit of an astigmatism, and some other things which are to be expected of a woman of 40 (give or take 10 years). Ahem.
The hardest part was actually picking out a pair of frames as I had no clue as to what I was looking for. Luckily, I only needed the single vision lenses, as opposed to bi-focals, because heavens knows, I really needed to be able to pick from any kind of a frame I wanted. Do you think we could just narrow the choices down a bit?
The doctor's office I went to was great, all the way around. I also had a lot of help, and voting from the people in the waiting room, about which frames looked the best. I chose sort of funky, but not way out on left base frames, which are fun. I'm comfortable with them because I'll not be wearing them full time. I just kind of wanted to "spice" things up a bit, and live a bit on the wild side.
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lmao at "Lord love a duck" I just love your phrases.
First teeth then eyes you really are hitting all the docs up this week. I bet the glasses are cute.
Is it get your hair and nails done next?
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Posted by: Raggedy at February 7, 2007 8:39 PM
yeah, I'm 44 and am wondering why the print keeps getting smaller and smaller. I probably should go in and do the same thing. sigh.
Posted by: bob at February 8, 2007 9:49 AM
did they test the pressure on your eyes?
there is glaucoma in my family (medicinal marijuana anyone?) and so the last time I had my eyes tested (and somehow NO LONGER needed my reading glasses wtf?) he tested the pressure, which included a puff of air directly on my wide open eye.
BIZARRE
Posted by: Pamalamadingdong at February 8, 2007 9:56 AM
My turn at the eye doc is next week; I got my bifocals a couple of years ago and boy did it take some time to get used to!!
Posted by: Michele at February 8, 2007 12:54 PM
Moogie on the age thing I ain't saying NOTHING......
Last time I had my eyes tested well hmm no problems there very slight blur issue but that's not a problem unless someone pokes me in the wrong eye and then forces the other to go out of focus...
Posted by: Gopher at February 8, 2007 1:16 PM
OK, but where are the picture of you in your new glasses? You made me very very curious now :-)
...and I thank you on the age thing, I must be very young since I don't need any glasses yet! *smiling real happy*
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Posted by: Mrs Lifecruiser at February 8, 2007 7:15 PM
I need to wear reading glasses when I wear both contacts. Made no sense to me... so I started wearing just one contact and things work well! :-)
Posted by: Judy at February 8, 2007 9:31 PM
Sounds like they were very thorough! It's great you had so much help choosing frames - they are sooo expensive aren't they?!
Michele sent me today which is coll as I was gonna visit anyway :-)
Posted by: Bob-kat at February 9, 2007 10:40 AM
Oh, yeah, the eyes start to go in your 40's, that's for sure. I went from glasses for driving to full-time contacts to full-time contacts with reading glasses. Doc mentioned bifocal contacts last time -- yikes!!!
Here from Michele's!
Posted by: wordnerd at February 9, 2007 2:18 PM
