I was going to make it short and just say, hey, it IS my glasses that are the problem and not my eye...but that doesn't really say much, and I'm hoping by writing this out I'll get some perspective (pun fully intended) on the subject.
Apparently, they polished the new lens for the left eye, which of course doesn't match the anti-glare coated lens on the right eye, so my brain has been Very Confused. More than Usual, okay...All of the sparkly lights and dancing reflections are NOT Migraine related, but refractory results. Thank GOD.
To avoid the *no reading* adventure of last time, I ordered a back-up pair of glasses. When those come in next week, I'll get rechecked to see if the week without drops makes any measurable difference as compared to the two months ON the drops. THEN, and only then, I'll release these glasses back into the wild and hope they come back FIXED. Otherwise I'll have to learn to work with hard contacts and additional reading glasses, and although I will if I have to, that is NOT my choice as far as options go. It takes me twenty minutes to put DROPS in my eyes, I can't IMAGINE putting plastic discs in....ewwwww.
The scar tissue is still there, but has not grown any since the last visit, and is considerably less inflamed, so the drops were actually worth it. The eye doctor and the arrogant surgeon will have a pow wow to decide what to do next (let's just hope whatever is in that pipe they are smokin relaxes them and takes EGO out of the picture....) as far as surgery or not.
The BIG picture is that my eyesight is not correctable at this point. My right eye sees fairly well and communicates appropriately with the left side of my brain. The left eye is not spherical, and so there is a lag in processing to the right side of the brain. The (sort of) amusing part of this is that for twenty odd years I have helped my children with their visual processing skills related to language, and now I have to take care of the same problem for MYSELF. I'm a horrible patient. This will be quite interesting, indeed. The skills I have always taken for granted, like hand-eye coordination, are a little wonky right now. I have to THINK about how to knit, which is So ODD. I'm guessing it is a little like trying to teach a stubborn adult a skill they already think they know (cough, cough) and don't want to spend much time on.
Ah, the inner journey. Fraught with dangers at every turn. Oh look, there's a Dragon, right over there, wearing a tee shirt that says Ignore me at your own Peril. Oh, dear.
When the eye doctor started going on about the lengthy therapy sessions that might be involved to retrain my eye brain connection, I said (just a little too forcefully, methinks) IT IS TIME FOR ME TO START TAKING CARE OF MYSELF FOR A CHANGE! He backed up a little and looked surprized. Hmmmm.
I'm determined to turn over a new leaf. A lovely literary metaphor, that.
Hang on for Mister Toad's Wild Ride!
Danger Girl has a fistfull of E ticket coupons and I'm wearing my Disneyland sweatshirt......
Hands and arms inside the ride, please....
All Aboard!
E-ticket, baby! I wonder how many of us are old enough to remember them!
I've missed you and am glad to see that you're back and posting! :)
Posted by: Christine | October 28, 2004 at 10:31 AM
I'm so glad you are back.
Sending many thoughts and prayers your way!
Hooray for Danger Girl's return!
Posted by: Christy | October 28, 2004 at 11:02 AM
Woohoo for Danger Grrl! May all good things come to pass from your new resolve. You're worth it!!
Namaste
Posted by: Margene | October 28, 2004 at 11:08 AM
*duck* I don't want to get hit by any flying Danger Girls! You go, girl.
Posted by: Norma | October 28, 2004 at 05:22 PM
Hard contacts and reading glasses are a breeze, been doing it for years, but it's a bummer when eventually you need the reading glasses over the hard contacts about half the time. I'm getting there.
Posted by: Catherine | October 28, 2004 at 06:11 PM
I've been wearing hard contacts for almost exactly 40 years, and have used reading glasses for the last three or four. Hard contacts are uncomfortable for the first two or three days, but after that, you won't even know you are wearing them. The good news on the "retrain the brain" issue is that you are a woman. Women have redundant systems in their brains, which means we forge new pathways easier. The trip up the coaster might be bumpy, but the ride down will be quite a thrill!
Posted by: Jane | October 29, 2004 at 12:05 AM
And then we can go on Small World. It's tradition, and it just IS a small world, no? Love you.
Posted by: Rachael | October 29, 2004 at 02:38 AM
Wore hard contacts for years! Reliable and easy. Just stay away from mohair, which feels like the Rock of Gibraltar if it grazes your eyeball. What better hand eye retraining than knitting.
Posted by: Pubah | October 30, 2004 at 11:04 AM