On the outside, I try to project an image of having it all together. But underneath that, I'm kind of a disaster. Hence... the name of the site: GlossyVeneer. Bad pun… corny pun… I know…
I went to the eye doctor this morning. I knew I could see better but I was a little fearful that there would still be problems. This ordeal has been dragging on and I’ve been disappointed upon sitting in the chair and realizing that I couldn’t truly see as well as I thought/hoped. So today I was “cautiously optimistic” that things would be good. Really, that’s all I wanted for Christmas… to have my vision restored.
(Well, restored to my typical poor vision… because at least the poor vision can be improved with corrective measures. Glasses had no power over the scratched cornea…)
I arrived at the doctor’s office and all of the staff were greeting me by name. You know you’ve been at the eye doctor too much over the past several months if everyone recognizes you.
After I was called back they checked the pressure in my eye and then took me to see the doc. He came in and asked me how I was doing, then said, “Well, let’s see if we’ve had any improvement to this saga.” He peered in and said, “Wow… that’s a lot better. Your eye looks great!”
Whew….
He said that my struggle has bothered him and he’s been reading up, that his best guess is that after my cornea was scratched initially, the eye contracted a viral infection due to the weakened surface. He compared it to those colds that seem to drag on and on and you just can’t shake it, an infection kind of like that.
Next they checked my vision for real, to give me a new glasses prescription AND a new contacts prescription. I’ve been cleared to wear my contacts again, I am so relieved about that because I LOATHE wearing my glasses.
They recommend that I change to a new brand of contacts, one that is more oxygen-permeable. So instead of the Acuvue 2 contacts that I’ve been in for more than a decade, I have a trial pair of Air Optix.
Another weird thing is that the vision in my right eye is now apparently better? I’m not sure I completely buy that, I have a feeling that will sneak back up on me and change for the worse… but my prescription used to be -5.25 in that eye and now it’s supposedly -4.25. Weird…
The doctor recommended that I take frequent “contact lens holidays” now. So instead of putting them in the moment I wake up and keeping them in until right before going to bed, to consider taking them out and wearing my glasses when I’m just chilling around home or on weekends. So I will probably do that. Not sure if I will get new glasses to do that though. I would love to have a few different pairs of glasses to switch things up, and my prescription has changed… but I’m also cheap and lens costs go up swiftly when you have to put them through extra processing so they aren’t coke-bottle thick because of my higher prescription. Plus I’ve spent a ton on eye doctor visits every 3 weeks for the past several months. We’ll see…
For now, I am just happy to know that my eye isn’t scratched to hell anymore.
