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!).
That's insane troll logic!
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Kathy A - Jul 16, 2009 6:28:01 pm PDT #29548 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Lee - Jul 16, 2009 6:35:12 pm PDT #29549 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
No. I'm not sure it would help too much though. I really do flinch a lot.
meara - Jul 16, 2009 6:40:59 pm PDT #29550 of 30000
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.
Cass - Jul 16, 2009 6:43:52 pm PDT #29551 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
He touched your eye???????
I cannot see to type through my squickl.
Ewwwwwwwwwww.
I will never wear contacts, clearly.
Amy - Jul 16, 2009 6:51:00 pm PDT #29552 of 30000
Because books.
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.
meara - Jul 16, 2009 6:59:35 pm PDT #29553 of 30000
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!"
Dana - Jul 16, 2009 7:01:00 pm PDT #29554 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Holli called that squick "no touchy my eyeball."
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2009 7:05:14 pm PDT #29555 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
He touched your eye???????
I sorta' had that squick once, but have since totally lost it.
Oh, and your eyes are numb when he touches them so you don't really feel it.
Liese S. - Jul 16, 2009 7:09:26 pm PDT #29556 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I did the touchy eye thing, and if you can deal with not thinking about it, it's way better than the puff of air. It's just, hey, blue light VERY VERY CLOSE to me. That's what the yellow dye is for. It also makes you feel numb and puffy momentarily.
Also I did the weird peripheral vision test where you click every time you see a dot, which makes me all paranoid. Well, more paranoid than the baseline state of Liese.
But I have lots of glaucoma in the family, including my grandmother who was misdiagnosed originally and essentially went blind from it, so I am happy to do all the tests. And in fact, although I'm typically high normal on the pressure test, this time I was normal normal. So yay!
Lee - Jul 16, 2009 7:11:42 pm PDT #29557 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
HATE the clicky test.