I get my eyes examined every five years, whether I need it or not
My eyes are exhausted right now. Apparently the perk of going to an actual optometrist with an office not in the mall is that you get a lot more tests done (and with only a $25 copay, thanks to my vision insurance from the Daily Press). So I had, in addition to the air-in-the-eyeball glaucoma test (which I secretly believe is just a way to screw with patients), I had vertical beams of light slid back and forth across my eyeballs, did the obligatory “is this better or this better” flippy lens selection, endless eyecharts at various distances and so on.
The upshot: My distance vision is actually getting better, although it’s not back to my early high school days, when I was better than 20/20. On the other hand, age is beginning to show its gray head: My eyes are beginning to show the deterioration that will eventually mean reading glasses for me.
Prescriptions never seem to be written in actual English, so instead of “left” and “right,” my eyeglasses prescription has “O.D.” and “O.S.” Maybe that’s Latin for “left” and “right.” My prescription:
O.D. spherical -0.50, O.D. cylindrical -0.25, O.D. axis 110
O.S. spherical -0.50, O.S. cylindrical -0.25, O.S. axis 080
If anyone knows what that actually means, tell me.
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We piss on your 0.5 … you may be old and crotchety, but clearly you can see (hopefully well enough to coo at your neice)
Comment by Joel the Blind — August 4, 2005 @ 20:33
We piss on your 0.5 … you may be old and crotchety, but clearly you can see (hopefully well enough to coo at your niece).
Comment by Joel the Blind — August 4, 2005 @ 20:34
I think Child Protective Services would be very interested in hearing that a child is in the custody of someone who double posts!
Comment by Beau — August 4, 2005 @ 23:37