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EYES PT. 2
Feb. 16th, 2011 06:07 pmSo I got my new glasses today! AND WOW EVERYTHING IS WONKY. I have a headache and my eyes are tiiiiiireeeddddddd. We shall see how this goes.
prisms ftw~~
-6:06 PM
prisms ftw~~
-6:06 PM
So I went to another eye doctor today.
He actually found something wrong! I've always wondered why I always bumped into walls or found myself reaching out to touch things in front of me, like a blind person checking where they are, and of course when I was taking driving lessons my poor instructor was like "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S WRONG :( WHY CAN'T YOU LEARN :( WHY ARE YOU HITTING ALL THE CONES :(" And of course I have always been horrendous at sports.
The last doctor I went to brushed me off and said I should just practice more, and yes, he literally suggested I drive more. Because when you have an inability to judge distance properly, the way you should fix that is by getting in a several ton vehicle on the highway. I'm sure people driving at the same time I am would be just thrilled to drive with me. NO GO AHEAD, BUMPING INTO PEOPLE IS HOW YOU LEARN! what.
So bscly he did all kinds of weird tests involving my looking at things and weird little glass circles that I learned are called prisms and eventually I found out some of the muscles in my left eye (and in my right eye too but not as bad) are kind of lazy and derpy and bscly don't do what they're supposed to. My brain says GO HERE SO WE CAN SEE THIS WAY and they go OVER HURR? and my brain is like CLOSE ENOUGH and then I hit a mailbox. He even asked if I saw colors differently out of each eye! Which, of course, I do. Righty is my red eye and Lefty is the blue eye. I mean, it's pretty subtle, but still.
So I have to get new lenses WITH PRISMS for my glasses. Good news is I don't have to get like dorky frames or anything, I can continue using my own. PRISMS. Like magic eye fixy things. Apparently they can take up to 2 weeks to get used to. YAY BEING MOAR BLIND but only for awhile so it's okay and it's not like I go anywhere anyway.
If they don't work I'll have to have a year of twice a week, 3000 dollar vision therapy. Which is an hour away. NO THNX.
He also said that many people who don't want to bother with the therapy actually patch one eye to drive and drive one-eyed. SOMEDAY I MAY BE A BADASS DRIVING PIRATE. Oh my God, I would totally get a custom patch. Like I'd bedazzle it and shit, it would be so cash.
He said what it was called. I don't remember though :( And searching just brings me to webmd, who of course brings up both lupus and cancer. I DON'T HAVE EYE CANCER WEBMD.
Of course my prescription is horrendous. 20/375 in the left, 20/400 in the right. LEGALLY BLIND DERP HI SCOTT LET'S BE FRIENDS WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON.
( RELATED NEWS )
ANYWAY THAT IS A LOT OF RAMBLING. SO BYE. -6:09 AM
He actually found something wrong! I've always wondered why I always bumped into walls or found myself reaching out to touch things in front of me, like a blind person checking where they are, and of course when I was taking driving lessons my poor instructor was like "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S WRONG :( WHY CAN'T YOU LEARN :( WHY ARE YOU HITTING ALL THE CONES :(" And of course I have always been horrendous at sports.
The last doctor I went to brushed me off and said I should just practice more, and yes, he literally suggested I drive more. Because when you have an inability to judge distance properly, the way you should fix that is by getting in a several ton vehicle on the highway. I'm sure people driving at the same time I am would be just thrilled to drive with me. NO GO AHEAD, BUMPING INTO PEOPLE IS HOW YOU LEARN! what.
So bscly he did all kinds of weird tests involving my looking at things and weird little glass circles that I learned are called prisms and eventually I found out some of the muscles in my left eye (and in my right eye too but not as bad) are kind of lazy and derpy and bscly don't do what they're supposed to. My brain says GO HERE SO WE CAN SEE THIS WAY and they go OVER HURR? and my brain is like CLOSE ENOUGH and then I hit a mailbox. He even asked if I saw colors differently out of each eye! Which, of course, I do. Righty is my red eye and Lefty is the blue eye. I mean, it's pretty subtle, but still.
So I have to get new lenses WITH PRISMS for my glasses. Good news is I don't have to get like dorky frames or anything, I can continue using my own. PRISMS. Like magic eye fixy things. Apparently they can take up to 2 weeks to get used to. YAY BEING MOAR BLIND but only for awhile so it's okay and it's not like I go anywhere anyway.
If they don't work I'll have to have a year of twice a week, 3000 dollar vision therapy. Which is an hour away. NO THNX.
He also said that many people who don't want to bother with the therapy actually patch one eye to drive and drive one-eyed. SOMEDAY I MAY BE A BADASS DRIVING PIRATE. Oh my God, I would totally get a custom patch. Like I'd bedazzle it and shit, it would be so cash.
He said what it was called. I don't remember though :( And searching just brings me to webmd, who of course brings up both lupus and cancer. I DON'T HAVE EYE CANCER WEBMD.
Of course my prescription is horrendous. 20/375 in the left, 20/400 in the right. LEGALLY BLIND DERP HI SCOTT LET'S BE FRIENDS WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON.
( RELATED NEWS )
ANYWAY THAT IS A LOT OF RAMBLING. SO BYE. -6:09 AM
you guys
why is my left eyelid swollen?
Yesterday it just hurt, like I'd slept wrong on my eye or something (which... I've actually done before. Or maybe it's the same thing except not as bad?) because I'm stupid and I sleep with my face on my favorite doll and she has plastic limbs and like maybe one pinched me or some shit idk.
but today it's a bit puffier. It really doesn't look that different to me but my mother's all OMG OH NO~ and usually it's the other way around (usually I convince myself I must be dying or having some sort of horrible rare disease and she looks at me with That Look and goes "Yes, I get that too. EVERYONE gets that." and goes about her business. Unless it's a cold-tye thing in which case she won't even look at me until my temperature goes above like 102, and considering my normal temperature is about 97.2, that takes a lot.).
So that's a bit worrisome. Both eyes are itchy and my throat is a teeeeeny bit scratchy and I feel like coughing every so often, so the current thought here is that it must be allergies. If it gets worse I'll go to the Walgreens doctor people, they're the cheapest. She gave me some benadryl (or at least, a store version... dipenhydramine, I think it's spelled?) so I'm waiting to see what happens there. It's supposed to make you sleepy but I think it makes me hyper.
It's not red or anything, the insides look the same as the insides of my other eye, and the eyeballs themselves both look exactly the same. So... whatever. That eye's always been squintier anyway. I can deal.
-eyeveebgreenflower @ 1:22 PM
why is my left eyelid swollen?
Yesterday it just hurt, like I'd slept wrong on my eye or something (which... I've actually done before. Or maybe it's the same thing except not as bad?) because I'm stupid and I sleep with my face on my favorite doll and she has plastic limbs and like maybe one pinched me or some shit idk.
but today it's a bit puffier. It really doesn't look that different to me but my mother's all OMG OH NO~ and usually it's the other way around (usually I convince myself I must be dying or having some sort of horrible rare disease and she looks at me with That Look and goes "Yes, I get that too. EVERYONE gets that." and goes about her business. Unless it's a cold-tye thing in which case she won't even look at me until my temperature goes above like 102, and considering my normal temperature is about 97.2, that takes a lot.).
So that's a bit worrisome. Both eyes are itchy and my throat is a teeeeeny bit scratchy and I feel like coughing every so often, so the current thought here is that it must be allergies. If it gets worse I'll go to the Walgreens doctor people, they're the cheapest. She gave me some benadryl (or at least, a store version... dipenhydramine, I think it's spelled?) so I'm waiting to see what happens there. It's supposed to make you sleepy but I think it makes me hyper.
It's not red or anything, the insides look the same as the insides of my other eye, and the eyeballs themselves both look exactly the same. So... whatever. That eye's always been squintier anyway. I can deal.
-eyeveebgreenflower @ 1:22 PM
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Feb. 1st, 2008 01:04 pmOkay! So! I went to the eye doctor today to see why I have no depth perception.
There were lots of tests and eye drops and I had to do my party trick with the one eye moves when the other doesn't. And then the doctor comes in and has the sad task of informing me that there isn't anything I can do because my brain isn't wired right. He said I should be able to drive because I do have some depth perception going on, my brain just doesn't know what to do with it (wtf), so all I have to do is practice, a lot, and I'll be able to compensate some day.
It's kind of a relief to know my eyes are physically healthy (besides being like blind, they're just fine), but then again, I'm scared. I know someday I'll have my own children, and I don't trust myself to drive them around. I certainly can't drive alone. And it's not just driving, I can't play catch or play frisbee or anything and I just... gah. I feel like crying. Yet another part of life I fail at miserably.
If you'll excuse me, my pupils are dilated and I'm gonna go sleep that off.
-1:03 PM
There were lots of tests and eye drops and I had to do my party trick with the one eye moves when the other doesn't. And then the doctor comes in and has the sad task of informing me that there isn't anything I can do because my brain isn't wired right. He said I should be able to drive because I do have some depth perception going on, my brain just doesn't know what to do with it (wtf), so all I have to do is practice, a lot, and I'll be able to compensate some day.
It's kind of a relief to know my eyes are physically healthy (besides being like blind, they're just fine), but then again, I'm scared. I know someday I'll have my own children, and I don't trust myself to drive them around. I certainly can't drive alone. And it's not just driving, I can't play catch or play frisbee or anything and I just... gah. I feel like crying. Yet another part of life I fail at miserably.
If you'll excuse me, my pupils are dilated and I'm gonna go sleep that off.
-1:03 PM
I had a dream I was friends with Victoria Beckham. Actually, I've had several dreams to that effect. They're fun.
Also, my right eye is lighter than my left eye. I'm sure everyone's like that, but I only just noticed mine were like that.
I'm really ready for winter to be the hell OVER already. It's making me feel so horribly depressed I don't want to get out of bed.
-2:13 AM
Also, my right eye is lighter than my left eye. I'm sure everyone's like that, but I only just noticed mine were like that.
I'm really ready for winter to be the hell OVER already. It's making me feel so horribly depressed I don't want to get out of bed.
-2:13 AM
So my parents decided I need to see an eye doctor.
I have driving lessons every week. Now, you'd think, considering the fact that I've been taking them since July (or was it June?) that I'd, you know, have any idea how to operate a motor vehicle by now. Some of my inability to drive can be blamed on my general spazziness. I kind of space out at traffic lights and don't always stop at stop signs and sometimes I use the wrong turn signal and I never have any idea what speed I'm going, but then again, pretty much everyone else on the road does dumb things a lot of the time and it's not really a big deal. But I still can't get the hang of things like pulling into and out of my driveway, and switching lanes, and I especially cannot park to save my life. And apparently I drive too close to the side of the road.
After my last lesson, Carol, my lovely instructor, came to my door to talk to my mother. Basically, she apologized, because she just can't understand why I suck so much. During that particular lesson we practiced parking in between cones, and I kept hitting them, even though I was going slow and looking behind me and everything. She keeps telling me you're supposed to line up the little mirrors with the line on the parking space, which works in theory, except when I try to focus on the mirror and the line they kind of jump around.
And so she's talking to my mother about me hitting cones, and I kind of casually mentioned my little problem of totally lacking depth perception skillzz, and it was like a light bulb went off in her head.
So my parents have cancelled the lessons until I can ask an eye doctor why things move around if I look at them for too long and why I can never seem to tell how far away anything is.
If the doctor tells me I'm normal, then I'm back to having no excuse whatsoever.
-12:24 AM
I have driving lessons every week. Now, you'd think, considering the fact that I've been taking them since July (or was it June?) that I'd, you know, have any idea how to operate a motor vehicle by now. Some of my inability to drive can be blamed on my general spazziness. I kind of space out at traffic lights and don't always stop at stop signs and sometimes I use the wrong turn signal and I never have any idea what speed I'm going, but then again, pretty much everyone else on the road does dumb things a lot of the time and it's not really a big deal. But I still can't get the hang of things like pulling into and out of my driveway, and switching lanes, and I especially cannot park to save my life. And apparently I drive too close to the side of the road.
After my last lesson, Carol, my lovely instructor, came to my door to talk to my mother. Basically, she apologized, because she just can't understand why I suck so much. During that particular lesson we practiced parking in between cones, and I kept hitting them, even though I was going slow and looking behind me and everything. She keeps telling me you're supposed to line up the little mirrors with the line on the parking space, which works in theory, except when I try to focus on the mirror and the line they kind of jump around.
And so she's talking to my mother about me hitting cones, and I kind of casually mentioned my little problem of totally lacking depth perception skillzz, and it was like a light bulb went off in her head.
So my parents have cancelled the lessons until I can ask an eye doctor why things move around if I look at them for too long and why I can never seem to tell how far away anything is.
If the doctor tells me I'm normal, then I'm back to having no excuse whatsoever.
-12:24 AM
HEYSUP EVERYBODY.
I'm feeling graphical, so I wanted to ask you all for a favor.
I want to make another eye collage (my first turned out well, and I'll show you all when I stop being lazy and find it), but for this one I want more pictures of people I actually know rather than random celebrities (although they'll be in it, too.) So if you have any pictures you wouldn't mind me using, let me know. A link to a myspace or something is fine; I'm not asking anyone to scan or upload or anything just for me.
In the mean time, I'm starting with, you guessed it, random celebrities :)
kbi,
Ivyette @ 11:02
I'm feeling graphical, so I wanted to ask you all for a favor.
I want to make another eye collage (my first turned out well, and I'll show you all when I stop being lazy and find it), but for this one I want more pictures of people I actually know rather than random celebrities (although they'll be in it, too.) So if you have any pictures you wouldn't mind me using, let me know. A link to a myspace or something is fine; I'm not asking anyone to scan or upload or anything just for me.
In the mean time, I'm starting with, you guessed it, random celebrities :)
kbi,
Ivyette @ 11:02
