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Possible ocular annoyance.
Aug. 24th, 2013 09:36 pmJust had my first eye exam in a bunch of years. We HAVE vision insurance through Lis's work, so we SHOULD be getting eye exams and new glasses regularly, but we've forgotten. My left eye -- which is my dominant eye -- is basically unchanged; the optometrist is making a couple tiny tweaks to the prescription, but it's mostly the same. The right eye has changed a bit more; that's expected.
The possible annoyance is that he saw some striations on my cornea, which might be nothing, but might turn out to be something significant down the road. Certainly, there won't be a problem for years, but there's a chance that they could do something bad five or ten years down the line. Not worth worrying about, but the optometrist's office is in the Costco, and we only have a ten-dollar co-pay, so he suggested that, as long as I'm going to be there shopping anyway, stop in every couple months, just to keep an eye on it. No pun intended.
It's in my right eye, which is my non-dominant eye anyway. And I've already got lousy depth perception. If I actually lost my right eye (which isn't actually a plausible outcome of anything that this could be -- I'm just sayin'), I'd lose right-side peripheral vision, which would kind of suck, but not actually be that serious. So when the worst-case scenario, which is actually not even a scenario worth considering, isn't particularly worrisome, I don't really worry.
The possible annoyance is that he saw some striations on my cornea, which might be nothing, but might turn out to be something significant down the road. Certainly, there won't be a problem for years, but there's a chance that they could do something bad five or ten years down the line. Not worth worrying about, but the optometrist's office is in the Costco, and we only have a ten-dollar co-pay, so he suggested that, as long as I'm going to be there shopping anyway, stop in every couple months, just to keep an eye on it. No pun intended.
It's in my right eye, which is my non-dominant eye anyway. And I've already got lousy depth perception. If I actually lost my right eye (which isn't actually a plausible outcome of anything that this could be -- I'm just sayin'), I'd lose right-side peripheral vision, which would kind of suck, but not actually be that serious. So when the worst-case scenario, which is actually not even a scenario worth considering, isn't particularly worrisome, I don't really worry.