Mal ,'The Train Job'
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Your retinas are the coolest thing ever! In true Buffista synchronicity, I went to the eye doctor today, too, but all I got for my troubles was the yellow corner of the eye crust from that weird dye they use to look at you.
Oh, and a free pair of trial contacts, and the news that I don't need new glasses (still! since 2002!) and I don't have glaucoma. So really, pretty good on the whole.
I also don't have glaucoma! It only took one try to do the test--sometimes it takes a lot more, because I flinch like a mofo.
I do however need new glasses, but I knew I would.
It only took one try to do the test--sometimes it takes a lot more, because I flinch like a mofo.
One of my eyes took three or four puffs and I just wanted to run away crying because I was just getting more flinchy every time. We all took a deep breath and then the mean lady hit the air blast before I realized what she was about to do. I also do not have glaucoma.
GO TEAM NO GLAUCOMA!
Doesn't your eye doctor put in the numbing drop before doing the puff of air? Mine does, and I love him for it (and other things--he's terrific at explaining everything about my eyes!).
No. I'm not sure it would help too much though. I really do flinch a lot.
If you go to an opthamologist instead of an optometrist, they can do the glaucoma test with drops, and looking in your eye and touching it with a thing, instead of the puff of air. Or so I realized when I asked my eye doctor if they were going ot have to do the puff of air test, and he told me he'd already done the glaucoma test, because he was an opthamologist, and licensed to use the drops and touch my eyes or whatnot, which optometrists aren't.
He touched your eye???????
I cannot see to type through my squickl.
Ewwwwwwwwwww.
I will never wear contacts, clearly.
He touched your eye???????
It's weird, because I have *no* squick with this (I got my first contacts at 13, and I once took out a *friend's* contacts when she was drunk) but the idea of numbing drops in my EYE makes me shudder.
Yeah, I wear contacts, so it was less of a squick than the puff of air. And it wasn't with his finger, it was with a ...thing. I don't want to call it a pokey-thing, cause that sounds...painful. And it was rounded and dull, and didn't feel like anything. I certainly preferred it too "hold....hold....ah, crap, you blinked at the puff!"