Damnit, Zulily's Keen sale started yesterday and they're already sold out of practically everything! I was hoping to buy the kids some sandals in advance this year.

Apparently my vision problems are not going to be fixed with a quick med change like I'd hoped. Migraine doc said "You're 44. See an optician."

Uh, okay? I guess I haven't been around enough people who aged into bad eyesight (everyone else in my family was born with it--a couple of them legally blind), so I had no idea that some days not being able to read and some days being able to read fine (like today) was how they deteriorated.

At least I hope my eyes are bad on whatever day my optician's appointment turns out to be.

Apparently the hospital wants to make me a test case for getting chronic pain out of the ER, so they're highly motivated to make the home care thing work. Seems like it rests with my insurance company now. Still not going to get excited.

I think I wasn't a good candidate for Lasik during my window because if there were issues it would be with the very center of my vision, and I'm likely to get glaucoma, so that would kill my peripheral vision. But this last pair of glasses is the first time I've changed prescriptions in about ten years. Before that it was yearly since I was a wee thing, and could have been more frequent, honestly.

I toy with contacts periodically and it's getting closer, but I still can't quite get enough correction.

I wonder about peripheral vision cause you know how your brain learns to filter out what's outside of your lenses? And today's styles are so much smaller than they used to be? I wonder if there isn't long term degradation outside of that when I don't use it for so long? I mean, like, would I be better off with those giant hipster glasses? Only the lenses would look super thick around the edges again.

Man, I really hope the home care works for you, ita.

I regard eye surgery the same way I regard skydiving: more power to those who want to do it, but a big ol' OH HELL NO from me.

I've worn glasses most of my life and plan to do so until I die. I have contacts I wear occasionally, but most of the time I like my glasses just fine, though I do need to get a new pair before long (which probably means another trip to the eye doc; it's been a couple of years). This time I'm thinking of getting TWO pairs of glasses, a luxury I've never considered before, but if I can get a second pair cheap (zenni?) that would be great.

Jessica, what size is D in Keens? I have some 12s in good shape ready to be passed along. (Casper has enormous feet, but Dillo has tiny ones - he wore these this past summer.)

Jessica, what size is D in Keens? I have some 12s in good shape ready to be passed along. (Casper has enormous feet, but Dillo has tiny ones - he wore these this past summer.)

He's a 12 right now but the way he's been eating lately I fully expect another growth spurt before we hit sandal weather.

Somehow, instead of needing bifocals, my nearsightedness is getting better? My prescription has changed for the better 3 times now.

Last week my eye guy took my distance perscription down slightly in my contacts so that I'd buy a little more time before I need reading glasses with them. My nearsightedness is very mild at this point, and with my glasses I can just lift them up. It may have something to do with that.

I'm solidly in bifocal territory - close-up vision is going, faraway vision has always been gone, and the happy medium where everything is crisp and lovely and legible is rapidly becoming a happy very very small. I already have a prescription for reading glasses (drugstore ones no good because of the astigmatism), but I think I'm going to just beg my eye doctor to bifocal me -- in no small part because I REALLY REALLY REALLY do not want to have to deal with more than one pair of glasses.

My coworker is making me want to smack her. She can't shut up about how fat she is, which alone is super annoying, but she's also 20 lbs lighter than me (and the same height) &, roughly, 50 lbs lighter than my boss. And she has no idea how rude she is being. Ugh!

Oh, dear.

Of course, I have my own sulk on right now because I'm definitely heavier than I've ever been before (the extremely lovely Zulily dress I just got is way prettier and better-quality in person than it looked online, and is a size that would have fit beautifully just a couple of years ago but now won't even zip up -- and, of course, Zulily=no returns) and feeling shapeless and desolate but, objectively, I know damn well I'm still smaller than lots of people so I try not to bitch about it. But I hate feeling constantly winded and stiff and no longer at home in my own skin.

Whine, whine, whine, and meantime other people are having surgeries and personal and family crises and STFU, me.

I do sort of wish I was OK with waering one of those elastic band that holds your glasses on, because they do slide down my nose a lot.

Do you just need the parts that go around your ears a little more bent? Because any glasses store should do that for your for free if you walk in and ask.