Jan

11

Chipping away at the pain of everyday living…

Filed Under Babbling, Homelife 

I really need to write my about page sometime soon. I’ll get to it. Soon. I hope. But, I’ve already ranted about writing that.

Today, Sarah had the day off from work. So instead of me sitting around on my behind for my usual 8 or so hours in front of my computer and working on homework or other random acts of slacking, we did a lot of running around. Stopped by the Florida Mall and went to Sephora for her and then Teavanna for a quick cup of tea. From there, Costco, our favorite chinese restaurant for a lunch special, and off for me to the eye doctors. All in all, a fairly busy day.

But the eye doctors is one stop that I wasn’t looking forward to. See, back in August, I had my last eye exam. Got a years supply of contacts, got new glasses, full clean bill of health, and I was out the door. But in November, the headaches started. I tried taking my contacts out and wearing my glasses a bit more often, but I still had the headaches. So, I told myself I’d go to the optometrists. I finally got around to that today.

For the past 7 years, I’ve been wearing Acuvue 2 contact lenses. I have an astigmatism in my right eye, and the first time I was given contacts, Everytime that I’ve gone in for a yearly exam, I always ask the same question: “Is there anything new or better than the Acuvue 2’s?” I mean, if you ever watch TV or read commercials, you never hear about an Acuvue 3 or Acuvue 4 or anything, but you definitely hear about tons of other brands. Even between three different doctors, I’ve still been wearing the Acuvue 2’s.

Till today.

On mentioning that and mentioning past problem with headaches which had led to bi-focals right before getting contacts–and yes, we’re talking bi-focals when I was like 16-17 years old–the doctor passed me a pair of Bausch & Lomb Purevision MultiFocal lenses. Essentially, I’m wearing the contact version of a progressive/bi-focal lens. It’s definitely… interesting. My eyes are still adjusting after having them in about 6 hours, and I’ll probably take them out in another 20 to 30 minutes just to make sure that my eyes can relax a bit before heading to bed, but so far, my focus on the near in stuff is a lot better.

But at the same time, what’s sort of amusing, is that with these multi-focal lenses, is that when you first get them and how they work, your eyes adjust differently: either you adjust well to reading or distance, and you have to slowly “train” your brain to decypher how you’re seeing things and switching your focuses. So for the past 6 hours, I’ve been a bit fuzzy at reading things at a distance.

I know my optometrist is a cool dude, though. I mean, his instructions for getting used to them were as follows: “Just take a book out to the couch or something tonight and read some, then look up at the TV, and keep doing that for a bit. Tomorrow, read the Sunday paper, and then let me know how your eyes are doing, and if these don’t work, we’ll try something else.”

Very nice. A prescription to read my heart out and watch TV. Just the thing I needed to hear with at least 2 chapters of reading per class that I have. So mark up about 10 chapters to read, and all the time to start on it.

More on my classes later…

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    Thanks for stopping by, folks! My name is Adam J. Cohen, and I'm a guitarist/songwriter in Champaign, IL, recently relocated from Orlando, FL where I'm a UCF grad. Here, you'll find vignettes on my life, setlists from open mics and reviews, and whatever else crosses my mind. Enjoy!