Eye Stuff

So, what *I* forgot this morning was that usually one gets one’s eyes dilated for an eye exam.  And then, having had this done, it is not a good thing to drive oneself home! Actually, it hadn’t even entered my head that I would be getting my pupils dilated although I have had eye exams and had this done eleventy-million times. {It occurred to me this morning that since I have been wearing glasses since I was four, I have worn them for 69 years! } Anyway, I came out into the sun, stood there a while and let my glasses darken and drove home quite successfully!

I should be getting two new pairs of glasses some time before the next two week are over. I am getting a trifocal pair –with lines– for everything, but especially for driving and a bifocal pair –again with lines–  for looking at the computer and reading. This is essentially what I have now. The trifocals will be transitional and have the glare-restricting coating {which I have now and love} and the other pair have the glare-free coating only since I wear them in the house and don’t need for them to darken.. I really like my new eyedoctor. She is young and bubbly and seems to know what she is doing. I gave her permission to get my paperwork from the other doctor. I am trying LensCrafters this time. They can’t mess me over any more than the office people at my eye doctors did last time. I thought I was going to have to get on a plane for England sans new glasses. Anyway, I asked the manager at  LensCrafters if they could guarantee that I would have these glasses within the next two weeks and the manager said basically that she would put a rush on them and I should have them in eight to ten days. {I am having surgery two weeks from today and there is no way I will be able to drive and get them fitted for a couple of weeks after the surgery!} There is going to be quite a big change in my vision when I get these new glasses. Right now, I see almost as well without them as I do with them!  And I always knew my left eye had very poor vision but it is a bit of a shock to find I can’t even read the top line on the chart without my glasses when my right eye is covered!

I went to the drugstore to get Fred’s prescriptions before I went home. My two prescriptions written for a two-month supply, kick in on the 7th of July. I do, I am pretty sure, have enough to carry me to the seventh.  I am SO glad I started this getting-drugs-for-two-months-at-a-time procedure a couple of months before I am leaving for Italy! I still have to go to the medical supply store and get crutches, etc, but I will probably do that tomorrow.

QUOTATION: If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott

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