Contact lens

These days I sport only one; contact lens that is.

In spite of three surgeries on my right eye it is not perfect but none of the rest of me is either, bud dump bum.

The cataract that I had removed this past March was enormous due to my waiting and being told that it wasn’t worth removing since my optic nerve was dead and so for nearly four years it grew to an ungainly size due to being enhanced by being well fed with steroids, IV and in the pill forms.

It was pure luck I found a new eye doc since the old eye docs in the fact they seemed to agree with my old neuro doc, the woman that said my optic nerve was dead, and those eye doctors were not on my new insurance so I had to find another doc who did my surgery and the next day my sight went from zero to 20/30 nearly perfect in my right eye.

The other cataract in my left eye had been removed back in January of 2010 and replaced with a reading lens thinking when I needed the right one done I would make it my distance one, never thinking I would go through four years of what I went through with optic neuritis that July of 2010 and IV steroids and on and on for all those years… that lasted until this March of 2014!

But a few weeks after my miraculous surgery, my right again became cloudy and so in May I had to have laser surgery to clear that and then lastly in November that same eye had a benign cyst on it that the doctor popped simplistically and gave me additional steroid antibiotics eye drops combo but for only a week!

Now like many people out there I was diagnosed with dry eye syndrome but twenty years ago, one Ophthalmologist even said it was Sjögren Syndrome http://www.webmd.com/arthritis/sjogren-syndrome, but the rheumatologist said that I did not; who says doctor’s don’t try to confuse us, hmm?

Any-who, so I have severely dry eyes due to medications in the beginning, prescription anti-inflammatories before my tummy changed its mind about them for my arthritis and then they said it was age, in my forties, and now I am more than sure it is a combo of both twenty years later. So I was offered plugs temporary and permanent and even had them installed and removed and even that very expensive Restasis, in those days insurance wouldn’t pay for it and a months supply was $300 and so I tried a half month way back then, and found, in my opinion that it was no better than all the over the counter dry eye stuff.

Even when at times it got really inconvenient I took out the contact lenses, two of them way back then on and off from the age of sixteen by the way… and went back to wearing my eye glasses, on and off too.

I definitely needed them I was both near sighted and far-sighted by then, although in my mid forties oddly enough my farsightedness went into remission due to the cataracts beginning I was told!

I started wearing glasses at the age of seven to see the chalk board, and so I was no newbie, the contact lenses were bought for me due to having turned sixteen and that is when I was told I needed to wear my glasses all of the time…and “And boys did not make passes at girls who wore glasses”, Gosh it was the 1960’s folks! LOL!

And now with one eye seemingly working well with its cataract lens and my righty still even with a contact lens needed for distance with the new cataract lens, odd, but true, it gets stuck if I forget to put my drops in or displaces. The ones I got a few months ago are disposable monthly use ones. But with my so dry eyes I am reconsidering a pair of back-up glasses, since I thought my eye had gone bad again but it was just my lens that went up in my head, sort of, very annoying…

I still have my old glasses that they poked the right lens out of since that prescription is wrong but for distance in my left eye is right, got that?

Yep, lefty with the reading lens needs a separate lens to work for both eyes again! Nah, not when I readjust the righty contact one, sort like when your undies ride up, but in my eye not your butt?

Odd picture I am more than sure…

So now I wonder why I should be telling all this, since my reading ability is probably bringing this to light once again, sure I am doing what I love and I have been also on computers very frequently over the years since 1982, actually. So eyes have it!

And again they are such a precious commodity so I will have to learn to take more breaks and lube them more often, yep like any fine tuned machine I suppose… and we all should!

On that note of take care of what you know you can and allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!