May 27th, 2009 | Author: trancejen
Well, so far it’s sticking.
Yesterday I had the worst headache of my life and I was scared to death, but the vision seems to be sticking around. Personally I think the headache is due to my optic nerves saying, “Wait, WHAT?”
My father recommended that I patch my formerly “good” eye (Holy shit, I now have two “good” eyes!!) in order to force the other one to work, so shortly I’m going to go out and procure an eye patch.
Arrrrrrr, mateys, I be patchin’ my eyeball like a pirate.
Blindness movie Last of the Living trailer I’m still so full of joy.
I hope to God this lasts, because if it doesn’t, the letdown is going to be astronomical. Still, I can’t give up hope.
In other news, the J-Man went to school and told tales of my miraculous recovery, and now the children all think he is “totally crazy”. Heh.
buy First Men in the Moon It IS crazy. It’s craziness on a massive scale.
I could easily get used to craziness.
Today I am taking the J-Man to the eye doctor to see if he can be fitted for contacts. I’m a little nervous about this, as I feel he is too young, but I have given the “You will LOSE your eyeballs if you’re not clean” lecture so many times that it has to have sunk in.
I’m going to get the doctor’s opinion, for sure, but other kids in his class have contacts and don’t seem to be contracting eyeball-threatening infections, so maybe it will be OK.
I’m in a fine mood. I start working again this week. Life is good.
Happy Wednesday.
I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am for you. I’ll send a word up to the big guy for ya. This turn of events makes me feel as if there’s a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, even for me.
I’m ecstatic for you and am praying still, for all to come into your favor!
I realize I’m horrifyingly late answering to this, but let me put in two suggestions:
1) There’s contacts that can be work for 30 days straight and slept in, they are so oxygen-permeable. They feel like not wearing contacts. They are about as expensive as buying a new pair of glasses every year, however, so their cost is their only downside. I love-love-love-love them and they are 100% maintenance-free.
2) There’s also the daily-disposable contacts, which are made of a material that’s less nice to the eye, but is very inexpensive and degrades easily so they are designed to be worn once for a day and thrown out. Again, maintenance-free. I keep them around for sports, because I wear my glasses 90% of the time, and don’t want to worry about a contact lens case drying out in between. They come in individually-sealed foil packets and you open a new one each time. If you are trying to stretch your dollar you could probably wear them for a day or two, but contact-lens solutions that decontaminate are not very compatible with them, so it’s difficult to decontaminate them, which is just begging for an infection.