One thing I learned during a barrage of testing over the past couple month, is that I need glasses.
Was quite an interesting visit to the optometrist, and a day I'll never forget.
I've always had really good vision. Of my immediate family of 7 with my brothers and sisters, I've been the only one not to need glasses for a long time. Out of my own family of 3 kids and my wife, I'm the only one who didn't need glasses as well.
Besides some other problems, I've had really bad headaches, and they were almost always on the right side of my head. So, one of the tests was to get my eyes checked. Thought it had been about a year, but turns out it was almost 3 years ago. I can see really good (Or so I thought) so I didn't think much about it.
I was reading the eye chart, first with my left eye. Could read really far down the list like usual, as well as really small paragraphs. Switch to right eye and whoa... Must be something in my eye. Blink a couple of times.. nope, still can't read it. (I'm looking at the second row from the top of the eye chart at this point)
I ask her if she has any saline or something, because I think I've got goop in my eye or something. She instead flicks a couple lenses and says, "how about this?" WOW, I can read it!
I know it's not a big deal and pretty common place, but for some reason this event just made such a big impact on me. It just totally blew me away that my right eye was that blurry and I hadn't noticed. It was such a funny experience to think I had something stuck in my eye, and then a little flick of the lens made it clear. Reminded me of an old Little House on the Prairie episode I saw as a kid.
Anyways, glasses are ordered and I can't wait to get them and get rid of the headaches. For the past few days, I find myself every couple hours closing my right eye, then left, then right still in disbelief of the difference I never noticed.
Truth be told, I've always wanted to wear glasses. As proof, refer to this post from 2003!
I'll post pics when they finally come in. They are sort of ordered. I've picked them out, have gotten fitted and measured, but I'm waiting until Thursday to pay for them. My local optometrist at the grocery store Zehr's is having a half off sale on Thursday.
Was quite an interesting visit to the optometrist, and a day I'll never forget.
I've always had really good vision. Of my immediate family of 7 with my brothers and sisters, I've been the only one not to need glasses for a long time. Out of my own family of 3 kids and my wife, I'm the only one who didn't need glasses as well.
Besides some other problems, I've had really bad headaches, and they were almost always on the right side of my head. So, one of the tests was to get my eyes checked. Thought it had been about a year, but turns out it was almost 3 years ago. I can see really good (Or so I thought) so I didn't think much about it.
I was reading the eye chart, first with my left eye. Could read really far down the list like usual, as well as really small paragraphs. Switch to right eye and whoa... Must be something in my eye. Blink a couple of times.. nope, still can't read it. (I'm looking at the second row from the top of the eye chart at this point)
I ask her if she has any saline or something, because I think I've got goop in my eye or something. She instead flicks a couple lenses and says, "how about this?" WOW, I can read it!
I know it's not a big deal and pretty common place, but for some reason this event just made such a big impact on me. It just totally blew me away that my right eye was that blurry and I hadn't noticed. It was such a funny experience to think I had something stuck in my eye, and then a little flick of the lens made it clear. Reminded me of an old Little House on the Prairie episode I saw as a kid.
Anyways, glasses are ordered and I can't wait to get them and get rid of the headaches. For the past few days, I find myself every couple hours closing my right eye, then left, then right still in disbelief of the difference I never noticed.
Truth be told, I've always wanted to wear glasses. As proof, refer to this post from 2003!
I'll post pics when they finally come in. They are sort of ordered. I've picked them out, have gotten fitted and measured, but I'm waiting until Thursday to pay for them. My local optometrist at the grocery store Zehr's is having a half off sale on Thursday.