A Trip to the Eye Doctor
Little Known Fact: I wear eye glasses.
Widely Known Fact: I never have eye glasses on!
Yes, I am suppose to wear glasses, yet I never do. They broke a long time ago...like in High School...and I just never got them fixed, or bothered to get my eyes checked again for new ones. Since I have been dating Kevin, almost 3 years now, he has been pushing me to get glasses again. He'll mention something a good distance away, and I can never really see it. It's usually blurry. I am near-sighted if I forgot to mention that. I have grown a custom to what blurry objects look like far away. Like I can generally tell who is walking down the hall in front of me, if I know them well. I've been sitting in the front of the class, so I can see the notes and such. However, it's been annoying. So finally I gave up on my struggle in living a blurry life, and I gave in to getting an I appointment.
Only...this is what kept running through my mind:
I can relate almost anything to Friends.
So finally it is time for my appointment yesterday at 10:30 am. I get there a little early because my mom said I would have to fill out some paperwork. I hate filling out paperwork! Especially the part that said, "Date of your last eye appointment." Uhh...heck if I know! Later on the lady told me to just guess, so I said 2001. Woah. So I'm waiting for the *pre-eye exam* and reading a People Magazine. Don't you know they always seem to call you in right when you're getting to the good part of the article?!
So I go in and she took my blood pressure. Apparently blood pressure can effect your eyes. She used a neat little automatic blood pressure thing, where it's like a really big watch and it automatically inflates on your arm and takes your pressure, the woman didn't have to do a thing but put it on and take it off of me. I told her it was pretty neat, and she said they had been using it for a month. After my blood pressure (which was fantastic) I had to look in a machine that focused on my eyes and made this little star thing sharp for me. Very technical terms. After that machine, I got to swivel around and get the puff of air in my eye like the above friends clip. I did not jerk away until after the puff of air went in. I don't understand the point of the puff of air...At the next machine she took a picture of my eyes. A very bright flashed in my eyes and all I could see were these bright circles in my eyes. It was better when she turned the lights back on. Then I was finished with my pre-exam! What a load of fun that was. Oh, I forgot I did the typical reading the eye chart thing. I suck at that with my bad vision. I'm not even sure of the number my eyes are, they never told me. Let's just say far from 20/20.
I waited for Dr. Newman, and went in to my actual eye exam when he was ready. I explained to him that I had had glasses before, they broke, and I just never did anything about it. I got lectured, naturally, but he was nice about it. He said my eyes have probably gotten worse from the strain. He first put eye drops in my eyes to dilate them.
This is pretty much what has to happen to get drops in my eyes:
I hate eye drops, but he did them quickly, and held my eye open like an expert...because, well duh, he is an expert. The eye drops stung, but he said that would go away, and I would just have trouble with bright lights and things would be blurry in a little while. Great. He re-did my eye chart reading and said I was ALMOST illegal to drive without my glasses. Oops. He did a bunch of other random eye checking things to make sure my eye problem was just an eye problem and not something related to health. And it is just an eye problem! Yay me. Dr. Newman then did the big eye machine thing where he asks you which lens setting is better...this one, or this one? After that I was all set and ready to get my glasses frame. I decided to wait until I came with my mom to decide. I slipped on my sunglasses and went out to my car to go to work.
Man, were my eyes weird! My pupils were huge and everything seemed like it had a film over it. I managed to get to work, and freaked Dawn out with my eyes. She gave me some work do to, and I went to my desk and turned on the computer. Trying to focus on the paper and on the computer nearly made me throw up. So I decided to go home for lunch and rest my eyes a bit. I watched tv, since that didn't hurt my eyes, but mainly I listened to the tv with my eyes shut.
I took a picture a couple hours later, since I was too lazy to look in a mirror, to see if they had gone down any. Just barely. I got annoyed with just sitting at home when I needed to be at work, so I decided to go back to work despite my eyes. I did my entry, which made me feel like I was going to throw up still. I powered through it though! I gave some of it to Amanda though, because I just couldn't continue to keep doing it. Plus I was leaving soon to meet my mom back at the Vision Care place to pick out my glasses.
I picked Kevin up on my way and we met up with my mom. She told me I had to get fun frames. Of course! If I have to wear glasses, they might as well be fun. I tried on SO many glasses. I finally narrowed it down between a pair of Candie's glasses and a pair of Vera Bradley glasses. Vera Bradley has glasses?! I know! I was pretty excited. I finally decided to go with that pair. They are red, and have the Mesa Red pattern on them. I'll be getting them in two weeks, and they come with a matching Vera Bradley eye glasses case! Awesome! Until then, I'll have to live in my blurry world.
~Taylor~
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