Eye appointment notes

[jenk]

• The eye doc doesn't have a "poof" machine anymore; the eye pressure check requires the thing that touches your eyeball.
• It is not a good idea to weasel out of the eye pressure check 2 years in a row, and you weaseled this year.
• You also weaseled out of the retina scan this year.
• You've had exactly one eye appointment in the last 15 years where your prescription did NOT change.
• While the cool $200+ Flexon frames are very durable, and the lab can re-make them with new lenses, this requires sending them to the lab which means giving up the current glasses for a week to ten days ... and your old pair is
  1. at home and
  2. from 1999 and
  3. gives you headaches.

So, next year....

• Get there early and have some wine (probably with lunch) at the restaurant next door to help you stay calm.
• Consider bringing someone to hold your hand.
• Bring both pairs of Flexon frames ("old", which I'm wearing now, and "new", which are on order) so the old ones can go to the lab for new lenses.
• And if you do weasel on the pressure check, do it before the anesthetic and dye drops are in your eyes so you can also skip the lovely burning sensation.

Oh well. At least my focus-at-different-distances rocks, so I can stick with one simple pair of glasses. Progressive lenses would work for everyday, but I don't want to have to peer at a monitor on my desk through the bottom half of my glasses, which would mean an extra "computer" set for close work....