Eye Doctor Adventures

Can you read the line above the red?

I've needed to go to the eye doctor to get a check up so that i can get new contacts and so has David. Carolyn really likes her doctor so we decided to go there. He was great! He explained everything really well and it was fun.

At the end he dilated our eyes to take a picture of the inside, interesting huh? (By the way, you can tell that I'm a true blond and of Scandinavian descent by the inside of my eye.) Then he gave us some trial contacts to use for the week and see how we like them. I decided to try out a new brand.

At first i couldn't tell if they were good or not because when your eyes are dilated you can't really focus or see well anyway. As the dilation wore off i realized that the contacts were not working for me. While we were driving home stop signs were blurry and the leaves on the trees and i had a head ache. Not cool or good. I was confused because my prescription changed so i should have been able to see better not worse. So i switched back to my old contacts for the night and decided to call the doctor in the morning.

I went back in to see the doctor the next morning and it turns out that the problem was that the contacts didn't fit my eye right and so it was making my vision much worse in my left eye. He gave me a different brand of contacts to try and then checked how i saw with them and everything was great! So i think these will work out. Interesting that how a contact fits can change how well you see though!

I'm going all out and getting new glasses too since it has been 4 years. It'll be fun to have some new glasses. That's my fun for the week.

In other news, I'm still hobbling around with my one crutch. I think i look like tiny Tim "god bless us, every one!" Haha! I am starting to lose my limp so that is nice! I'm also walking more around the house and work without my crutch, although i get reprimanded a lot at work for it. I tried going up and down stairs without crutches for the first time this week. It tires me out pretty fast but it's OK. All of the tape is off of the scar and I'm thoroughly grossed out by it. I'm finding it more disturbing than i thought i would to have a scar on my leg. I feel gross and disgusting. It's lumpy and ugly. (As you can see I'm still trying to deal with it :)

So that's life. My scar is ugly and i hate it and i can see!