It's been three months since my retinal surgery. The retinal specialist gave me the OK to get contacts again.

I went to the vision center on Michigan Avenue today to arrange to get some contact lenses. I like to call it "Where the Hot Optometrists Are". I guess a prerequisite to work as an eye doctor on Michigan Avenue is to have an athletic body, stunning good looks and a killer smile.

They remembered me from my awful glasses fiasco a couple months ago. My eye doctor was really cool and explained everything to me - how my eye is still healing, what vision to expect in the next 2 years, how having contacts would be better for my sight than my glasses, etc. He took care to make sure I understood everything and that I was comfortable. He said my eyes are healing very well, and that my vision is surprisingly good for someone who just had surgery. (which my retinal specialist had already told me).

Vision-wise, I think my left eye is pretty bad. He'd show me that big fat E on the eye chart and I would have to say, "Big fuzzy splotch! But I could cheat and tell you it's an E."

There's something wonderful about going to the eye doctor, when they cycle through the different lenses and you get to experience vision that is for a moment, crystal clear. However, that whole, "Which one is better? A? or B? A? or B?" Most of the time I can tell which one is better. Sometime's I'm like, "Uh, I dunno. Go back to A. No, go back to B. A again." But once in a while they hit that lens that makes you go, "Ahh! That's a good one! I like that one!"

So yeah. Monday, I get my contacts.

Glorious, glorious contacts.

I can't wait!

Posted by Yano at November 10, 2004 08:26 PM

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