For those of you who do not have perfect eye site, eye appointments can get rather tedious. My mom asked me when I got home if I needed to get my eyes checked, I didn’t think that I did, but figured that is wouldn’t hurt anything if I did.
I have never really enjoyed eye appointment, I hate it when they check the pressure in your eyes by sending a little puff of air into your eye, something that surprises you, but doesn’t hurt. I decided, a week ago Friday, that I really dislike, rather I HATE reading the letters off that stupid chart. My eye site is a lot better than anyone in my family or many of my friends who have glasses or contacts…but I still can’t tell what the forth line says on that dumb chart. So after checking what I could see without my glasses and then what I could see with my glasses…the cheerful tech left and the doctor came in about 30 minutes later.
This is the part that I dislike the most, reason? Well I can never make up my mind on which setting looks clearer. They have you look through this weird looking contraption that has a bunch of lenses on it, knobs, and levers. They change the different settings in hopes to find a lens that makes things so much clearer. The hated conversation goes a bit like this.
Doctor: Now tell me which line you can read.
Me: Well, the 4th line is rather fuzzy, but I can read the 3rd line fine.
Doctor: Now look at the last two letters of the 4th line, which is clearer to read, this one…or…this one?
Me: Ummmm…(pausing long enough to have her switch it back to the first one while wondering what exactly the last two letters in the 4th line really are)
The problem came when she switched to my left eye. It wouldn’t focus on any of the letters…I could tell what the letters were, but they were definitely not clear.
I am pretty sure that we went through every single lens and setting on that contraption, to come up with the realization that I needed new glasses. Most of you are probably wondering why I need glasses, since you don’t ever see me wearing them. I don’t need glasses when working on art projects or doing homework or working about the house. But I can’t read things that are far away…so objects like street signs, speed limit signs, black boards, power point presentations, the people up front in church…yeah all those things are rather fuzzy. I use my glasses for driving and in large lecture classes.
After a good 20 minutes or so I was allowed to go and pick out new frames for my new prescription. Some of you are probably wondering why I don't just get contacts, are you kidding? Sticking my figure that close to my eye in order to place something in my eye? Not happening. I can see just fine...just don't ask me to read a street sign or something like that...cause I won't have a clue as to what it says...Now just ask any of my housemates, I am horrible at deciding. So the process took awhile, I hate frames that are too wide, too skinny, too round. I like them to be somewhat fashionable, but I didn’t want them to be the same pair that I currently have…I mean how I would be able to tell them apart? I didn’t even notice that my prescription had changed!
I have never really enjoyed eye appointment, I hate it when they check the pressure in your eyes by sending a little puff of air into your eye, something that surprises you, but doesn’t hurt. I decided, a week ago Friday, that I really dislike, rather I HATE reading the letters off that stupid chart. My eye site is a lot better than anyone in my family or many of my friends who have glasses or contacts…but I still can’t tell what the forth line says on that dumb chart. So after checking what I could see without my glasses and then what I could see with my glasses…the cheerful tech left and the doctor came in about 30 minutes later.
This is the part that I dislike the most, reason? Well I can never make up my mind on which setting looks clearer. They have you look through this weird looking contraption that has a bunch of lenses on it, knobs, and levers. They change the different settings in hopes to find a lens that makes things so much clearer. The hated conversation goes a bit like this.
Doctor: Now tell me which line you can read.
Me: Well, the 4th line is rather fuzzy, but I can read the 3rd line fine.
Doctor: Now look at the last two letters of the 4th line, which is clearer to read, this one…or…this one?
Me: Ummmm…(pausing long enough to have her switch it back to the first one while wondering what exactly the last two letters in the 4th line really are)
The problem came when she switched to my left eye. It wouldn’t focus on any of the letters…I could tell what the letters were, but they were definitely not clear.
I am pretty sure that we went through every single lens and setting on that contraption, to come up with the realization that I needed new glasses. Most of you are probably wondering why I need glasses, since you don’t ever see me wearing them. I don’t need glasses when working on art projects or doing homework or working about the house. But I can’t read things that are far away…so objects like street signs, speed limit signs, black boards, power point presentations, the people up front in church…yeah all those things are rather fuzzy. I use my glasses for driving and in large lecture classes.
After a good 20 minutes or so I was allowed to go and pick out new frames for my new prescription. Some of you are probably wondering why I don't just get contacts, are you kidding? Sticking my figure that close to my eye in order to place something in my eye? Not happening. I can see just fine...just don't ask me to read a street sign or something like that...cause I won't have a clue as to what it says...Now just ask any of my housemates, I am horrible at deciding. So the process took awhile, I hate frames that are too wide, too skinny, too round. I like them to be somewhat fashionable, but I didn’t want them to be the same pair that I currently have…I mean how I would be able to tell them apart? I didn’t even notice that my prescription had changed!
3 comments:
:P I'm with you Em, eye doctor visits are always interesting, but rarely fun. I hate the eye puff thing; I wait anxiously, holding my eye open and holding a staring contest with the contraption in front of me as long as I can, thinking that the little puff of air will be coming any second now, and just when I lose hope and blink, *puff* the air hits my closed eyelid and the cycle starts over again.
Meanwhile, choosing which lens is better is awful too. My eye doctor will say, "which one is better, 1 or 2? 3 or 4?" and if I happen to take more than a split second to decide she changes the lens and asks again. Thankfully I love my eye doctor in spite of this. I can't wait to see your new frames :D
I'm glad other people feel the same way about eye doctors...I love my eye doctor too...just not the appointments... :)
hey, i got my eyes checked too!
And I got new glasses too! Although it really didn't seem to be quite as traumatic for me as it sounds like it was for you! As you might imagine, i didn't have very much trouble figuring out which of the little lenses were better:-p and with my new glasses (and contacts) i have 20/15 vision 8-) I'm glad you survived though;)
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