It was one of THOSE days
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sraunUp at 4:15 to go to work - work overtime from 6-10AM. Walk the dogs before I leave. Stop at CostCo on the way home to pick up assorted food items. Walk the dogs again, put food-stuffs away, catch up on e-mail and LJ. Walk the dogs, leave about 12:50 to pick up heartworm meds for the dog and head off to my annual eye exam.
Have I mentioned recently how much I dislike the after-effects of my annual eye exam? I'm diabetic, and I showed a possible glaucoma pre-cursor symptom while I was at college - this means my eyes get anesthetized, I get the pressures checked, my eyes get really dilated, the doctor uses this incredibly bright light to take a good look at my pupils, and then I spend hours seeing stars around point source lights. Your typical car headlight will have a star that's 3-5 times the car width across. No, I'm not competent to drive after my eye exam! (Oh, I love the glaucoma screener they came up with about five years ago - they tap it on your eyeball a couple of times, and voila! a number! This is a lot better than the old 'puff of air and measure the waves' test that they used to use. Well, they still use it - the easy test apparently has a fair chance of getting a false positive, but a low chance of a false negative - so they use the good test to verify the positives.)
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iraunink drove us to Eastern Buffet for dinner - she was competent to drive! Then we came home, I read a couple of chapters in my current book, and fell asleep about 4:30. The dogs woke me up again about 7:30, I let them visit The Big Room With The Really High Ceiling, gave them dinner, caught up with e-mail and LJ again, had a snack, had evening meds, and am now posting about my day. Mac has just finished his dinner - that means I get to go back to bed now.
I'll be up again in 10-12 hours. It's been a long week!
Have I mentioned recently how much I dislike the after-effects of my annual eye exam? I'm diabetic, and I showed a possible glaucoma pre-cursor symptom while I was at college - this means my eyes get anesthetized, I get the pressures checked, my eyes get really dilated, the doctor uses this incredibly bright light to take a good look at my pupils, and then I spend hours seeing stars around point source lights. Your typical car headlight will have a star that's 3-5 times the car width across. No, I'm not competent to drive after my eye exam! (Oh, I love the glaucoma screener they came up with about five years ago - they tap it on your eyeball a couple of times, and voila! a number! This is a lot better than the old 'puff of air and measure the waves' test that they used to use. Well, they still use it - the easy test apparently has a fair chance of getting a false positive, but a low chance of a false negative - so they use the good test to verify the positives.)
iraunink drove us to Eastern Buffet for dinner - she was competent to drive! Then we came home, I read a couple of chapters in my current book, and fell asleep about 4:30. The dogs woke me up again about 7:30, I let them visit The Big Room With The Really High Ceiling, gave them dinner, caught up with e-mail and LJ again, had a snack, had evening meds, and am now posting about my day. Mac has just finished his dinner - that means I get to go back to bed now.I'll be up again in 10-12 hours. It's been a long week!
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Date: 2008-01-05 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-07 10:40 am (UTC)I already am both farsighted and nearsighted, with astigmatism. And I used to have a lazy eye. Plus I have relatives on all sides of the family who've had glaucoma, cataracts, and macular degeneration.
So I go to the eye doctor regularly and get all the tests, have been since I was a kid. I hate getting drops and hate having the thing touch my eye. Eek! I deal, though, but ugh. So sympathies.
(Which reminds me, I'm probably past due for an appointment).