Wednesday, June 25, 2014

20/20, with a lens assist! And on my 6th year BLOG anniversary!

I  can see clearly now!
Again, and it is with a contact lens in righty! Making it my distance eye!
Sure it took two surgeries with lotsa steroid and pressure drops that I am off of as of today, hooray!
Here I sit un-bespectacled before you with two bare eyes i.e.uncovered, oops did I say that?

My Dr. Klein is up to more good, he has recently also operated on a  woman who had been blind from the age of eleven due to a brain tumor and she is now seeing well too and for the very first time in over forty-two years! Amazing! She too was told nothing could help her, how truly sad...why do any doctors do that; to what benefit? Dumb? Stubborn? No time to read? Who knows...mean and bad sad!

It is truly nice to awake from a mini nap, Skipper woke me in less than ten minutes, and to realize that you have the ability to SEE! Although, I suppose reaching for my eyeglasses will continue for a while and even though the light bulb goes off fairly quickly that I don't need them... For any of you ever addicted to cigarettes you might be able to imagine that is that automatic not unlike reaching for one of those butts... Geez, my 8th anniversary for that too is coming up next month on the eleventh; if that wasn't clear, it was my quit those cancer sticks day!
Yep, was 7-11-06!

Oh contact lenses are nothing new for me. I got my first pair at the age of sixteen; the year that I had been told I was going to have to wear my glasses all of the time and I first had to have them to see the blackboard for and only by age seven!

And for over forty years I did wear contact lenses on and off, every type available in each decade, sleep in, don't sleep in, clean them daily, no toss them, leave them in for two weeks, which these are now! You name it I have had all kinds and many horror stories to go along with them too! Coloring my enhanced natural looking previously blond locks and getting the dye under them, and having to go the eye doc at eighteen years old to open my eyes with tooth picks to medicate them! Scratched corneas, a few too many times...I had been bad in not taking them out when I felt something under them! It was over those years that I learned eyes heal fairly fast from many bad things, but not all would be taught years later...

I enjoyed the freedom, and not needing even reading glasses when I showed the need at age thirty-eight, instead I went for mono lenses, that is one eye was for reading and had that type of lens and the other for distance for driving and it worked beautifully! Until about eight years later when I thought they gave me the wrong lens at the doctor's office and then I found out when told to take the reading lens out, because I magically no longer needed it! Apparently that happens when one begins getting cataracts, and yes that is what I was told for the reason, and that was fourteen years before I needed that cataract removed; lefty in 1-2010, which became my reading, new permanent lens and that one is working fine these days!
Crazy!
My plan was to have righty turned into the permanent distance one when it needed its cataract removed then the unexpected happened July 2 of 2010 Optic neuritis, Happy Birthday to me, a day after actually, July second of that year, was bye, bye righty, for nearly four years!

But alas now is all well and in working order!

HOORAY!

So I leave you tonight with again a day to celebrate not only this blog's anniversary, but my day of seeing, really seeing all there is to see!
Well, maybe not all, but most, well not most, a bit, a wee bit more than before, yes that's the ticket better and more than before, since I am officially a 20/20 GAL?
20/20 GAL!And I am no Barbara Walters, but my 20/20 refers to my sight!(You all knew that,ha!)
Albeit she saw that way too in that show!

On that happy note, 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 all your overages and we will too!

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

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