Frailty, thy name is retina!*
Last night, for the last time ever1, I took out my contact lenses.
As you may recall, I’m not allowed to wear my contacts for an entire week before my laser eye surgery. And my surgery is one week from today! So I have to spend the next week wearing my stupid glasses. Which I’m not looking forward to, since (a) I hate how I look in glasses and (b) the prescription is a decade old and, according to my optometrist who checked them out at my recent pre-op visit, just barely squeaks by the level of vision required to drive.
Also discovered at my recent pre-op visit was the fact that I have some slight retinal “latticing,” i.e., my retina is thinning on the bottom. Apparently it is relatively common for someone with my ridiculously high level of nearsightedness2 – since nearsightedness results from your eyeballs being too long, meaning that my retina is being pulled tighter than it should be and, viola, you have a thinned retina. It sounds kinda gruesome to me, but I’m told that it’s nothing to worry about (although thinned retinas can then become detached, apparently it’s a good sign that (a) it’s thinned at the bottom rather than the top3 and (b) it’s evenly thinned in both eyes4). At any rate, the latticing of the retina doesn’t affect my eligibility for getting laser eye surgery, so the countdown to lasers in my eyes remains at T minus 7 days.
Which also means that there is still time for any rich philanthropists or other people who have money burning a hole in their pocket to donate to the “Fund raiser for Dr. Beth’s Peepers“:
*Since two of my other blog postings on my laser eye surgery used Hamlet quotations, I thought I’d continue the trend here.
1Assuming, of course, that everything goes well during the surgery. Knock on wood.
2-7.5 in one eye, -8.5 in the other eye.
3since thinned retinas at the top can become detached due to the weight of the rest of the retina pulling it down.
4Why does this just not sound like a good thing to me?
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I want to take a bunch of pictures with you with your glasses on, with your head untilted!
That’s because you are mean.
I’m the exact opposite of you – I like how I look with my glasses better than I do without them. Maybe it’s because I’ve been wearing them since I was 10, and I’m used to it.
(OTOH, my cousin’s husband took a candid pic of me at the family reunion while I was wearing my contacts, and I really liked it. Maybe I’ll wear them more often.)
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As the taker of the original picture used in the shot, I’m glad you liked it and used it in your blog.
Ciao! Much more to read here 🙂
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Awesome shot! Thanks for dropping by to check it out!