My Damn Eyes

I'm writing this after having just come home to Melissa saying "Umm, something is wrong with your eye. It's like you aren't looking at me." After I made a face she continued, "No, worse than normal." Grrr. Well that might explain the headache I'm starting to get.

Over six months ago, I tore my last contact. Having not found an eye doctor in town yet, I just decided to go without for a while. "Decided" is a strong word. I just never got around to making an appointment and used my glasses to drive. Near Thanksgiving I decided to finally go to the eye doctor and was surprised to find out my prescription had changed. I now had an astigmatism in my right eye and so would need a toric lens to correct it.

Six different contacts later and I'm still trying to find the right one. Ugh. While I see better in the distance with the astigmatism contact, it seems to really piss off my left eye to the point of looking more cross-eyed than normal and giving me headaches. But in true Flower for Algernon fashion, going to the closest non-astigmatism lens that doesn't give me a headache just pisses me off all day because I remember how clearly I should be seeing. I'm hoping the headache and cross-eyed is due to reading with this contact so hopefully I can get some glasses to use when I want to see sharply.

For all of you out there with perfect vision, please remember how lucky you have it.