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well, that was crap
May. 23rd, 2008 15:15ophthalmologist appointment yesterday. for those who don't know -- i am fairly phobic about anything involving my eyes getting touched. i don't wear contacts because it's torture for me to put them in -- i tried, more than once. even putting in eye drops is difficult.
so i don't go for eye examinations as often as i should. but i really had to -- for one it's been more than 10 years since i've actually had an in-depth exam (rather than just a vision test), for another, the extreme hypertension might've damaged something, for a third, one can see lots of things about the state of the blood vessels in the body much more easily in the eye than anywhere else. so this is all part of the search for my ticker problem.
last time i had an exam, i freaked out during it, and they couldn't actually finish all of it. (the time before that i freaked out before and didn't even go.) since then i've gotten better at handling things i am phobic about (meditation, mantra, desensitization, practice), so i was hoping it might go better.
uh huh. well, it did in that i didn't wimp out of the appointment and cancelled it (believe me, i wanted to). and i didn't freak out during the vision exam or the prep for dilation (though man, SHE TOUCHED MY EYEBALL. my inner animal wanted to bite her hand off.). then i had to sit in the waiting room to let the dilating drops work.
( click only if you can handle freakouts with some gross )
the good news is that my eyes are largely as ok as they can be (aside from the myopia and astigmastism which i've had all my life). there's a little cataract, which she said was sort of to be expected due to my age, and a long way from needing to be tackled with surgery. there's nothing wrong with my blood vessels. there's a bit of pigmentation in my left eye, for which she said to eat more vegetables (those with antioxidants i assume). so basically, a cleanish bill of health for the eyes.
she wants to see me again in a year. a year seems a very short time. *wry grin*. i think i'll write up a one-page manual on the care and (lack of) feeding for the vasovagally challenged piranha. and send some flowers to the office.
oh, and did you know that if you close your eyes, they can't see you? :)
so i don't go for eye examinations as often as i should. but i really had to -- for one it's been more than 10 years since i've actually had an in-depth exam (rather than just a vision test), for another, the extreme hypertension might've damaged something, for a third, one can see lots of things about the state of the blood vessels in the body much more easily in the eye than anywhere else. so this is all part of the search for my ticker problem.
last time i had an exam, i freaked out during it, and they couldn't actually finish all of it. (the time before that i freaked out before and didn't even go.) since then i've gotten better at handling things i am phobic about (meditation, mantra, desensitization, practice), so i was hoping it might go better.
uh huh. well, it did in that i didn't wimp out of the appointment and cancelled it (believe me, i wanted to). and i didn't freak out during the vision exam or the prep for dilation (though man, SHE TOUCHED MY EYEBALL. my inner animal wanted to bite her hand off.). then i had to sit in the waiting room to let the dilating drops work.
( click only if you can handle freakouts with some gross )
the good news is that my eyes are largely as ok as they can be (aside from the myopia and astigmastism which i've had all my life). there's a little cataract, which she said was sort of to be expected due to my age, and a long way from needing to be tackled with surgery. there's nothing wrong with my blood vessels. there's a bit of pigmentation in my left eye, for which she said to eat more vegetables (those with antioxidants i assume). so basically, a cleanish bill of health for the eyes.
she wants to see me again in a year. a year seems a very short time. *wry grin*. i think i'll write up a one-page manual on the care and (lack of) feeding for the vasovagally challenged piranha. and send some flowers to the office.
oh, and did you know that if you close your eyes, they can't see you? :)
