New Eye Glasses
I am picking up my new glasses by Thursday or maybe Friday. Hopefully they will help with the double vision that I have had for a while and I will be able to drive again without some of my fear. (I know my problem is more then just vision but I will have no excuse not to try to drive because I will be able to see fine again.) I don't know if I won't be willing to drive at night for some time but I will try to drive more in the daytime while the kids are in school.
I figure I can just take a few short trips a few times a week until I build up the strength and will power to venture onto the bigger highways and roads. I may even attempt to make a visit to my friends house (about 20 mins away) at least once a month instead of her having to come to my house all the time to see me.
I can really start making more goals or myself. I have started a list of about 30-50 things that I would like to accomplish over the next year. I am hoping to at least get 75% of those these things done in the year I am giving myself. I may need some help with a few of the things on my list so far but a lot of it I can do myself and need to do myself.
I am getting two pairs of glasses one set is just for reading, computer stuff and drawing (up close stuff) and the other pair are for driving and watching TV and just plan moving around the house. There should be no time at all that I am not wearing my glasses. I am going to have to get used to that because I never really liked wearing any of my old ones, but these are very pretty ones so I think I will like them and they look good on me, not to say that I am all that great looking but I look better with these glasses. Maybe I will post a photo on my flickr site after I get them.
It cost over $500 to get the glasses, frames, exam and the medication they gave me. It is worth it though I think. Jemal has certainly helped me to feel better about spending so much money on myself for this. It is the same as getting my pills or seeing a doctor, it is something that will make me function better it's not just something that I want because I think I will look better or something, although the glasses I got do look awesome.
They have some special engraving on the arms and I like the shape of them and the feel of them. I will be happy to wear them everyday, which is how I have to wear them. I will have them on everyday all the time.
I also need to switch to Aetna PPO so that I can go to them and do "Eye Therapy" 1 or 2 times a week in order to strengthen my left eye and keep it from moving freely. He said that it could take up to a year to repair the weak eye muscles that I have.
On top of that I have to use "Thera Tears" 4 x per day in order to put the oils and saline that I need on my eyes because my eyes don't produce it themselves, I don't know how long I will have to take it (maybe forever) but they do make my eyes feel so much wetter and smooth and not dry and itchy all the time.
In addition I have a special soap that I have to use every night before bed to clean my eyelids (the ducts around my lashes. My ducts are sealed closed (Meibomian gland disorder or Blepharitis)and supposedly this soap will do something to clean them out and open them up to produce the oils I need. The down side to this is that I don't like putting soap near my eyes, I really don't like putting it on my face unless I really have too. It makes me nervous to put the soap on my eyelids. I just have to do it though no matter how creepy it makes me feel. I know for sure now that I could never wear contacts.