vilakins | A mixed bag

Bad: My right eye started hurting badly while watching Outrageous Fortune on Thursday night (not the film; the new local series about a criminal family trying to go straight--and not bad either) and got worse yesterday at work to the point where I was imagining all sorts of terrible things that could be wrong with it. I scratched my cornea once when I was living in Israel and that was agony and required cocaine drops and an eyepatch--and obligatory Moshe Dayan jokes (no B7 fans there). So I went to the optometrist today hoping that's all it was.

Good: That's all it was though not as severe this time. It should heal up in a couple of days with lubricating drops. The new optometrist at the practice also said she could fit me with better contact lenses that won't let foreign particles under them (windy days are hell) so I'm going back next week.

Better: I bought the latest Harry Potter and a Hedwig. Come on, those owls were beautifully made--all soft and furry and each one different--and only $20 (our sort). Oh and Hustle is coming on TV here soon. Yay!

GIP: And here's my latest icon, made with one working eye. I wasn't happy with my first effort from the same screenshot so I decided to comic-ise it which simplified the image a lot.

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Brrr... ((Hugs)) I hate scary things going wrong with the body- especially the eyes. Reminds me, I need to get lenses again- I gave up using the last ones nearly 2 years ago because after I started on bp meds I couldn't focus on the computer monitor *or* the sewing machine when wearing them. I've got the vastly different eyes problem, too, so eyeglasses cause instant headache. Must go back.. don't want to.. must... nooo... must.. (and then I sit down, lean closer and touch-type or play with photoshop, using the right eye that can focus on the monitor -t'other can only focus from 5-20 inches away & the monitor's 27 inches away) (Sorry to hi-jack your LJ, that just popped out.)

I love your new icon.

Thanks! I really wasn't happy with my first effort. The comic effect simplifies a busy screenshot very nicely and allowed me to add a starry sky.

And your icon's very appropriate! :-D

My bad eye (in both senses right now) has to be about 3 inches from the monitor before I can read type with it. Luckily my other eye is almost perfect. The annoying thing is that I'm right-eyed so my stupid brain tries to use the bad eye as the main one. No wonder I was hopeless at sport as a kid; they didn't realise I was half-blind till I was 14 because the other eye could see everything.

You should try lenses. If you don't have a very distorted eyeball (like my right eye) you can wear soft ones and they're meant to be much more comfortable. I have to wear hard ones to force that eye into shape, but the new optometrist said a different type properly fitted should stop my problem with stuff getting under. So I'm going back next week. Eep. More big expenses after buying a new puter and getting my car repaired.

I had the soft lenses for years, but my eyes changed with age & the last time I was at the eye-place, they told me this was the best they could do- and after I started on bp meds the minor change it made to my vision rendered them completely useless. I should go back & try again, maybe if I impress upon them the *necessity* of being able to focus at a particular close distance, they'll sacrifice the long-distance vision (which I haven't got anyway. My better eye focuses from about 18 inches to maybe 20 ft.)

And I happen to be left-eyed (my worst eye)... so there you go- I was *abyssmal* not only at sports, but at such simple things as picking up a glass of milk as a kid. :^) I spent the first 6 years of school sitting in the front row as the only way I could see the blackboard at all.

Then they should have realised that you had a sight problem! I sat at the back of the class and because my left eye was (then) perfect, no one know my right eye was virtually useless. I get the left one corrected now as well because it's changed a little and I might was well have the best vision I can.

I do think you should try again. They're making advances all the time in lenses; I didn't even know there was a different sort of hard one that would be better for me.

Bugger. My eye's sore and light-sensitive again today. I think those pain-killers helped yesterday as well as the drops. I've just taken some more.

The school was always crowded- they never noticed the quiet kids, cuz they were too busy keeping the bouncy ones from wreaking havoc. :^)

Going to the eye-guy is on my to-do list- I've just got to push myself to actually do it & not put it off because I'm busy & don't want to spend the money.

I hope your eye heals quickly & that the new lenses work well for you.

Me too. I woke up with a sore eye again and it took a while for the pain-killers to work. Plus I have to go to work tomorrow as two people are away. :-(

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