New Glasses in One Week
May. 6th, 2012 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corrielleFeeling much better today than I did yesterday.
Jess and Mel ended up coming over last night, and Jess was able to drive me to the eye appointment this morning. She is fantastic.
The optometrist was very nice and professional and explained to me exactly what he was doing as he did it, and he said that my eyes look healthy, and when I asked about the tension headaches and the blurry vision, he said it was probably because my right eye (which is my dominant eye, as determined by the "make a triangle directly in front of you and center something in it, then close one eye" test) is the one that has changed and needs more correction. My left eye hasn't budged when it comes to the amount of correction it needs. So, my dominant eye is compensating all the time for not quite having the right correction, which makes driving and going back and forth between reading papers and looking at a tv screen across the room very taxing on my eye muscles. Hence the headaches. He also took a photo of the inside of my eye that I got to see immediately on his computer screen... it was kind of cool to know that the big orange balls with all those veins were actually mine. I think they do it to make sure there aren't any signs of glaucoma, and I was happy to have something in my medical records for comparison later if need be.
I picked out some new frames, and I should be getting my new glasses in about a week.
In the meantime, I'm going to make sure I'm sleeping enough (I notice that the worst headaches occur when I'm already a bit sleep deprived), drink lots of water so my eyes don't dry out, and pay close attention to how much time I'm spending staring at computer or iPhone screens. Also, I need to make sure that when I grade, I take breaks and let my eyes rest a bit. I have a lot of work to do in the next couple of weeks and not a lot of time to do it in, but my eyesight isn't something I want to mess around with.
In other news...
Rae and I discovered a fantastic little mom and pop Chinese place tonight. We came home with enough leftovers to feed us for a week.
Our neighbors bought a new grill. This means that they no longer make our entire condo smell like lighter fluid every time they barbecue outside on their porch below our balcony. It's a small improvement, but so nice.
I got my car back. It runs. It cost exactly as much as the estimate said it would. This is a huge relief.
I just finished Mockingjay. Everything hurts.
Jess and Mel ended up coming over last night, and Jess was able to drive me to the eye appointment this morning. She is fantastic.
The optometrist was very nice and professional and explained to me exactly what he was doing as he did it, and he said that my eyes look healthy, and when I asked about the tension headaches and the blurry vision, he said it was probably because my right eye (which is my dominant eye, as determined by the "make a triangle directly in front of you and center something in it, then close one eye" test) is the one that has changed and needs more correction. My left eye hasn't budged when it comes to the amount of correction it needs. So, my dominant eye is compensating all the time for not quite having the right correction, which makes driving and going back and forth between reading papers and looking at a tv screen across the room very taxing on my eye muscles. Hence the headaches. He also took a photo of the inside of my eye that I got to see immediately on his computer screen... it was kind of cool to know that the big orange balls with all those veins were actually mine. I think they do it to make sure there aren't any signs of glaucoma, and I was happy to have something in my medical records for comparison later if need be.
I picked out some new frames, and I should be getting my new glasses in about a week.
In the meantime, I'm going to make sure I'm sleeping enough (I notice that the worst headaches occur when I'm already a bit sleep deprived), drink lots of water so my eyes don't dry out, and pay close attention to how much time I'm spending staring at computer or iPhone screens. Also, I need to make sure that when I grade, I take breaks and let my eyes rest a bit. I have a lot of work to do in the next couple of weeks and not a lot of time to do it in, but my eyesight isn't something I want to mess around with.
In other news...
Rae and I discovered a fantastic little mom and pop Chinese place tonight. We came home with enough leftovers to feed us for a week.
Our neighbors bought a new grill. This means that they no longer make our entire condo smell like lighter fluid every time they barbecue outside on their porch below our balcony. It's a small improvement, but so nice.
I got my car back. It runs. It cost exactly as much as the estimate said it would. This is a huge relief.
I just finished Mockingjay. Everything hurts.