2 posts tagged “optometrist appointment”

...and I'm feeling a little blind. I had to get my eyes dilated so he could look inside my eye, so my computer screen seems to be doing this weird psychedelic flickering thing. I'd be nauseous if I didn't have such a strong constitution.

Anyway, this was my first visit to this eye doctor (hence the dilation), and I really like him! I loved the optometrist I saw when I lived in LA, but when I moved to Orlando, I needed to find a new optometrist. I saw Dr T for 10 years, and he knew all about my ocular history. I moved to Florida in 1999 and have gone through four or five different doctors in search of a comparable local doctor. And, with the chances that Baby C will probably need corrective lenses thanks to yours truly, I really wanted to find an optometrist that I liked.

Enter Dr L. His office staff, to begin with, is awesome. I called yesterday to schedule an appointment, and they saw me today. His office is also open on Saturdays, but I really needed a new prescription. Chris has an appointment on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, though, which is awesome because he won't need to take time off from work.

Dr L explained all the tests, let me know my results, and let me walk around with a makeshift version of my new prescription. (Dr T was the last optometrist who would let me do that.) He also talked to me like a normal person. I have, after all, been wearing glasses for almost 25 years. Additionally, when it came time to establishing my new prescription, he set it for 20/15 instead of 20/20 (I'm currently seeing at 20/40 out of one eye and 20/60 out of the other), which was something else that no one has done since, well, Dr T.

I also told him I wanted to get screened for Lasik surgery, and within 20 minutes of leaving his office, I got a call from the Lasik facility! How crazy is that? Here, I was expecting to wait a few weeks or days, at least.

So, I seem to have lucked out now in my choices of healthcare providers. I have an awesome pediatrician who also happens to be my doctor, a terrific OB/GYN, and a wonderful optometrist.

Now I just need to go back to the dentist. Thankfully, I like him better than dentists I've had in the past, but I don't think I'll ever be happy having someone poke around my mouth.

How inspired do I really need to be to look over spreadsheets? Apparently, I need to be at least a little inspired, or I will stare at the spreadsheet for hours and see nothing, only to return to it after a few minutes and notice all sorts of discrepancies.

I'm going to blame it on my eyesight.

I'm going to the optometrist in a little while to get my eyes examined. My last examination was last July, before I was pregnant, and now that the baby is approaching 7 months old, it's time for me to get them checked again.

I have terrible vision. When I was in 3rd grade, my grades started slipping terribly. My parents thought it may have been because of Child's Play, but even when I was back in school regularly, my grades weren't improving. In April of that year, I got my first pair of glasses, which would ultimately become huge Coke-bottle glasses as I got older. I got contact lenses my senior year of high school and never wanted to go back.

But, of course, having a baby changes that, too.

So, now I need to get my eyes checked and hopefully get a new prescription. And I'll see if this doctor thinks I'm a good candiate for corrective surgery, too. With the baby constantly grabbing my glasses in attempts to use them as chew toys, I starting to think it's time.

Besides, my sister did it and lived to talk about it, so...