oh my eyes

[solipsistnation]

I have new glasses. They replace my VERY scratched-up old glasses, which were getting bad enough that I was getting lots of glare driving at night, and made movies annoying to watch.

My new glasses are slightly more stylish, I guess. They're wider and more rectangular, but not super-wide super-square hipster glasses. They also have the brand name in tiny letters down the temples, which I need to figure out how to eradicate without looking awful.

They're a slightly different prescription, too, which means that nothing looks like it's the right distance away. I spent yesterday making sure to hold onto the handrail when walking down stairs. I suppose I'll get used to that soon enough, but it's still kind of disconcerting.

The local eye doctor, rather than testing internal eyeball pressure with a little puff of air, tests it by numbing your eyeball and poking you with a little thingy. I could hardly do it. My eyes are watering up and I'm blinking a lot just thinking about it.

Anyway, yay new glasses.

Comments

[xinie.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

My eyes, I can't see my eyes!!!!

GODDAMN, do I hate the eye doctor! But now I'll try to remember that the air puff thing could be much worse.

[kadnkadnk.livejournal.com]

Please always remember that you are the customer and the doctor is the service provider and you can refuse ANY test you like.

I remember refusing the eye puff test when I was 15 and the doctor called my father in, presumably to have him make me do it. My father basically ripped the guy a new one, reminding him that he should be respectful of his patients' wishes and that otherwise he would find himself out of business quite soon. Especially since I don't have a history of eye disease in my family, I've never had a puff test.

Squick.

-k

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Ah, but, see, as a very nearsighted person, there are lots of potential risks involved in not knowing what's going on in there. Much as I hate it, I'd rather have it tested and know if there's something I need to worry about or have taken care of.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

Instead of the eye puff, I get the evil yellow drops that make your eyes feel like lead. My glaucoma numbers are borderline high and my mother is diabetic, so I get this joy once a year. The whole process gives me SUCH a headache....ugh.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one I got. Loads of fun.

[profesor.livejournal.com]

Huh, I prefer the poke-me-in-my-numbed-eyeball test way more over the puff-of-air test. I always blinked and the doctor always had to do the test a few times to get a reading. I hardly even notice the new test. I never knew my eyes had feeling until I went to put my contact lenses back in after one of those tests! I always thought the feeling of something in your eye was from the inside of your lids, not from the eye itself.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Me too! additionally I have no-line (vanity) bifocals to compound the new prescription... whoa! dizzy!

And frames?! holy shit, those mofos are frikkin expensive! I have a *huge* head, the size of a planetoid, with its own weather system! (I felt it appropriate to be quoting something from a Mike Myers' movie) and the less expensive frames just won't fit... hence the expensive mofos >:-/

But it *is* good to be able to see again, isn't it? :)

[air-hadoken.livejournal.com]

On the Internet, saying you got new glasses is like saying you're a hot female: worthless without pictures. :D

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. No camera handy...

They're quite dashing. You'll just have to imagine it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What, don't you have a camera on yer mobile phone?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I'd have to turn it on, and then somebody might call.

Plus, mobile phone vanity pics? Hello MySpace.

[slarti.livejournal.com]

...You've got a MacBook, don't you? :-)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Nope, I don't. Old-skool G4 ftw.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

POST PROOF OR RETRACT

[quaintance.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to see the new specks.

I recall going to a new eye doctor when I was a teen. For some reason, I let my brother sit in on the exam. Then this doc was just about to do the poky eye thing my brother said: "ohmygod he's gonna touch her eye!" It was all over. I did the air-puff instead which, for some reason despite the fact that it is the exam dereguer now, seemed to be less preferable to poking at me.

I'm about due for an exam myself. Better get on that.

[nchanter.livejournal.com]

So... I appear to be allergic to the numbing eyedrops. Like, I passed out from them once, and nearly did a second time. And since then I've been less-than-happy reactive with the normal dialating drops so... yea. No drops for nchanter. And I refusted to do the air-puff test last time I was at the eyedoctor too. Just... took my glasses breaking and running out of contacts to get me in there in the first places. Thankfully, my eyedoctor was really understanding. But ugh....

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

My eyes are watering up and I'm blinking a lot just thinking about it.

Heck, *my* eyes are tearing up thinking about it and I've never had that test... UGH!

[mysterysquid.livejournal.com]

Yeowch... Don't think I've ever had that one...