Adventures in Ophthalmology
May. 27th, 2005 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyMille remerciements to whoever it was who pointed out, after the last time I went to the ophthalmologist, that if I told the doctor my eyes were staying dilated twice as long as they ought to, there might be something to be done about it.
(That's a terrible sentence.)
I did tell the ophthalmologist, and they only put one kind of drops into my eyes, instead of both. ("You dilate very well," the technician said admiringly.) I only looked like I'd been taken over by The X-Files's oil-slick aliens for a couple of hours, and by the time![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala and I got back home, I could actually focus on things again. Well, at least well enough to read Peanuts collections, which was about all I was good for. But the difference in the quality of the experience was profound. Thank you!
And I'm getting bifocals. Which, yes, I'm rather young for, but the combination of myopia and nystagmus does exciting things like that. The ophthalmologist gave me the choice--I could either get bifocals, or just continue taking off my glasses when I want to look at things close up--but my vanity and self-image are not really implicated in my glasses (I started wearing glasses at the age of three, so I've done the But they make me look like a geek! thing. Besides, I am a geek. Truth in advertising, baby.) and there's something so counter-intuitive to me about having to take my glasses off to see what I'm doing that I'd really rather get the bifocals and not worry about it. It'll actually kind of be a relief.
I'm very grateful to be living in the twenty-first century.
(That's a terrible sentence.)
I did tell the ophthalmologist, and they only put one kind of drops into my eyes, instead of both. ("You dilate very well," the technician said admiringly.) I only looked like I'd been taken over by The X-Files's oil-slick aliens for a couple of hours, and by the time
matociquala and I got back home, I could actually focus on things again. Well, at least well enough to read Peanuts collections, which was about all I was good for. But the difference in the quality of the experience was profound. Thank you!And I'm getting bifocals. Which, yes, I'm rather young for, but the combination of myopia and nystagmus does exciting things like that. The ophthalmologist gave me the choice--I could either get bifocals, or just continue taking off my glasses when I want to look at things close up--but my vanity and self-image are not really implicated in my glasses (I started wearing glasses at the age of three, so I've done the But they make me look like a geek! thing. Besides, I am a geek. Truth in advertising, baby.) and there's something so counter-intuitive to me about having to take my glasses off to see what I'm doing that I'd really rather get the bifocals and not worry about it. It'll actually kind of be a relief.
I'm very grateful to be living in the twenty-first century.
