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jebbypalHow is it that the only character I have in my user pics with glasses is Moz? I remember the good old days when we got characters like Fox Mulder that went with and without glasses at will. Sigh.
Anyway, I went to the eye doctor again finally yesterday. And my problems (not inability, but like I said, issues) with seeing words at certain distances hasn't been all in my head.
So, don't remember if I really posted about it, but I went to the eye doctor at the local lenscrafters 3 years ago - right before my insurance from the small biotech expired when I was quitting/getting fired. It was not a good experience as I found the office personnel horribly unprofessional (I'm all for joking at work, but not in full view of waiting customers), and something about the eye doc himself triggered nervous laughter for me..Seriously, it's not something that often happens, but I was epitomy of a dumb blonde that day. He basically said he wasn't making my vision 20/20 because it would give me eye strain even though I argued with him about it. At the time, I intended to go to another doctor, but when I realized my insurance was to lapse and that I'd be facing really crappy insurance with the contract position at BMS, I went ahead and got a new set of glasses with that prescription.
Overall, no issues, but I've always felt like I need to push the zoom up on my computer screen (and had 3 yrs ago too but I figured I didn't mention it because it wasn't enough to make me want to hear that I was getting far sighted as well. And moving further away didn't exactly help the issue), and I couldn't see any of the smaller fonts that the PS3 is so fond of for both subtitles and instruction text without moving off the couch closer to the TV - which I blamed on the whole "I won't give you 20/20 because I don't want to strain your poor blonde eyes".
I told this all to the new eye doctor - she knows of the docs at the other place and seemed surprised. But she went ahead and gave me a full going over. She did my eye chart test before getting the prescription in my glasses read so she was a little flabbergasted when she realized my right eye has near perfect vision but my left eye sucks (sucks as in it sees lines when the chart the size down from the E is shown, but no letters). She started to say it was likely because my left eye was dominant but then did the dominance test and found out that's not true (wheee, wouldn't be me if it isn't a slight medical mystery).
So she did the objective test to determine what my ideal prescription would be before going to the "which lens is clearer" fun....and asked if I'd ever been told I had an astigmatism.
Cue disbelieving look from me. (after some research, less flabbergasted as apparently it can develop in adulthood. And now I know that both my parents have one too, even my completely normal visioned father -- minus his need for reading glasses now). When she put in the lenses that it said I should have and then showed me the difference with and without the astigmatism correction, it was kind of mindblowing. Without it, the chart is fuzzy and I still can't read the bottom line when only dealing with one eye. With it, I can read all 4 lines perfectly.
So, I'm pretty stoked. I should get the new lenses next Wednesday before I leave for my business trip - which she thought would be perfect since I won't be driving and she's a little worried about how my depth perception will react at first. And now I'm glad I never got rid of my old glasses as my dad warned me its possible that it might give me headaches/etc as that's the reason he's never bothered to get glasses for his (eye doc said they'd save my old lenses in case I can't make the transition but she thinks it will be fine at my age) so I'll have a backup pair with me if it gives me any trouble onsite.
But given that half of my not writing fun stuff is that my eyes, well they aren't exactly tired at night. But the later it gets, the harder it is for me to focus in well, I'm excited that this will make that go away. And make driving in new places easier! I mean seriously, for the first time in my life, if I'm too tired, my eyes will literally not focus right.
Of course, I need to go back for a follow-up appointment at the end of the month (due to work craziness) to get my eyes dilated for the first time in years. Apparently my retinal cup/optic nerve ratio is a bit high as well as different between the two eyes. She's not overly concerned, but as I'm reasonably certain that my grandfather did have a diagnosis of glaucoma that they pretty much decided not to treat since he also had wet macular degeneration at that point, she wants to follow up on it regularly. And so now I'm a little bit freaked about whether the pressure in my eyes occasionally is sinuses as I always put it off to, or glaucoma. Mostly because if it's the latter, I have no freaking clue how my body would react to any treatment given my fun allergies. Ah well, not like I won't be busy enough this month to put it out of my head for a bit.
So that's that. Also found out all my learning about amyloidosis is for naught as the client decided to take that part out of the grant and replace it with AML. Which yes, much better unmet clinical need and slightly larger patient population, but *pout* Which means you know what I'll be doing tomorrow (since my eyes were still burning/tired from yellow goop solution eye doc put in my eyes to measure the retinal cup). But today, this house has to get cleaned so I can stop taking claritin every other day and screwing with my mood. :P:P
Anyway, I went to the eye doctor again finally yesterday. And my problems (not inability, but like I said, issues) with seeing words at certain distances hasn't been all in my head.
So, don't remember if I really posted about it, but I went to the eye doctor at the local lenscrafters 3 years ago - right before my insurance from the small biotech expired when I was quitting/getting fired. It was not a good experience as I found the office personnel horribly unprofessional (I'm all for joking at work, but not in full view of waiting customers), and something about the eye doc himself triggered nervous laughter for me..Seriously, it's not something that often happens, but I was epitomy of a dumb blonde that day. He basically said he wasn't making my vision 20/20 because it would give me eye strain even though I argued with him about it. At the time, I intended to go to another doctor, but when I realized my insurance was to lapse and that I'd be facing really crappy insurance with the contract position at BMS, I went ahead and got a new set of glasses with that prescription.
Overall, no issues, but I've always felt like I need to push the zoom up on my computer screen (and had 3 yrs ago too but I figured I didn't mention it because it wasn't enough to make me want to hear that I was getting far sighted as well. And moving further away didn't exactly help the issue), and I couldn't see any of the smaller fonts that the PS3 is so fond of for both subtitles and instruction text without moving off the couch closer to the TV - which I blamed on the whole "I won't give you 20/20 because I don't want to strain your poor blonde eyes".
I told this all to the new eye doctor - she knows of the docs at the other place and seemed surprised. But she went ahead and gave me a full going over. She did my eye chart test before getting the prescription in my glasses read so she was a little flabbergasted when she realized my right eye has near perfect vision but my left eye sucks (sucks as in it sees lines when the chart the size down from the E is shown, but no letters). She started to say it was likely because my left eye was dominant but then did the dominance test and found out that's not true (wheee, wouldn't be me if it isn't a slight medical mystery).
So she did the objective test to determine what my ideal prescription would be before going to the "which lens is clearer" fun....and asked if I'd ever been told I had an astigmatism.
Cue disbelieving look from me. (after some research, less flabbergasted as apparently it can develop in adulthood. And now I know that both my parents have one too, even my completely normal visioned father -- minus his need for reading glasses now). When she put in the lenses that it said I should have and then showed me the difference with and without the astigmatism correction, it was kind of mindblowing. Without it, the chart is fuzzy and I still can't read the bottom line when only dealing with one eye. With it, I can read all 4 lines perfectly.
So, I'm pretty stoked. I should get the new lenses next Wednesday before I leave for my business trip - which she thought would be perfect since I won't be driving and she's a little worried about how my depth perception will react at first. And now I'm glad I never got rid of my old glasses as my dad warned me its possible that it might give me headaches/etc as that's the reason he's never bothered to get glasses for his (eye doc said they'd save my old lenses in case I can't make the transition but she thinks it will be fine at my age) so I'll have a backup pair with me if it gives me any trouble onsite.
But given that half of my not writing fun stuff is that my eyes, well they aren't exactly tired at night. But the later it gets, the harder it is for me to focus in well, I'm excited that this will make that go away. And make driving in new places easier! I mean seriously, for the first time in my life, if I'm too tired, my eyes will literally not focus right.
Of course, I need to go back for a follow-up appointment at the end of the month (due to work craziness) to get my eyes dilated for the first time in years. Apparently my retinal cup/optic nerve ratio is a bit high as well as different between the two eyes. She's not overly concerned, but as I'm reasonably certain that my grandfather did have a diagnosis of glaucoma that they pretty much decided not to treat since he also had wet macular degeneration at that point, she wants to follow up on it regularly. And so now I'm a little bit freaked about whether the pressure in my eyes occasionally is sinuses as I always put it off to, or glaucoma. Mostly because if it's the latter, I have no freaking clue how my body would react to any treatment given my fun allergies. Ah well, not like I won't be busy enough this month to put it out of my head for a bit.
So that's that. Also found out all my learning about amyloidosis is for naught as the client decided to take that part out of the grant and replace it with AML. Which yes, much better unmet clinical need and slightly larger patient population, but *pout* Which means you know what I'll be doing tomorrow (since my eyes were still burning/tired from yellow goop solution eye doc put in my eyes to measure the retinal cup). But today, this house has to get cleaned so I can stop taking claritin every other day and screwing with my mood. :P:P