In which I bore you with my blindness

My right eye started hurting Sunday when I put my contacts in.  It wasn't red or pink & it didn't really hurt - it was just annoying.  Which sometimes is worse that hurting.  It kept 'running' (gag) even after I took my lenses out & when I woke up Monday & Tuesday it was matted shut.  (double gag.)  I always remember my mom telling me, "You DON'T want to mess with your eyes!" so I called the doctor Tuesday morning.  

They got me in that day.  I was crossing my fingers & toes that it was pink eye & get me a 'day off work' free card.  Sadly - it was not the elusive pink eye...it was an allergic reaction.  Sigh.  She put the yellow dye in it & looked all around & said I had red, inflamed bumps on the bottom of the inside of my eyelid.  Awesome.   She gave me some steroid & anti-biotic drops so I don't get a bacterial infection.  AND she told me I had to come back Thursday for a check up... & no contacts until then.  Sigh....  

(She did NOT mention no eye liner, mascara or make-up - thank Gawd....)

So, I've told ya'll I'm blind.  Like seriously.  B-rad loves to laugh at me when I don't have my glasses on & have to get right up on something to see it.  They don't even register me on the 20/20 scale.  They rate me by how many feet away I can see fingers.  Nice.  

When I have no assistance from glasses or contacts, this is how close I have to be to the mirror to see clearly.  I put my hand beside my face so you can see JUST how close it is.

 Here I am with my lovely drops...This is how close I have to be to read it.... 

 B-rad also loves to make fun of how thick my glasses are.... he says I could burn bugs in the sun with them.

 If it's not fun enough taking a shower blind, drying my hair blind (I hit my glasses with my brush & it's just not worth it), but it's the MOST fun finding & applying my make-up blind.  I realized how close the damn bag was to my face this morning when I was digging through it for my eyeliner that the Doctor did NOT tell me I couldn't use.   Imagine how fun it is to apply said eyeliner when my face is so close to the mirror. 

 The end of the eyeliner hits the mirror... a lot...

 It never gets old hearing 5,000 times a day, "Why are you wearing your glasses?"  

Some of you (Alicia) may be wondering why I just don't get Lasik?  If only it were that simple...
I went to a consultation for Lasik a few years ago.  One doctor said no problem but the other said that the traditional Lasik wouldn't work for me.  My corneas are not flat & have some high areas so they won't actual cut my cornea & flap it over.  He said they would put a solution on my eyes to dissolve my cornea (gross) & then do the laser procedure.  But since I would have no cornea flap to lay back over, I would have to wear special contacts for a week or so until my cornea re-healed itself.  That procedure is a bit more painful than Lasik AND it could take like up to 6 months for my vision to be the best it will be.  

Sigh, nothing is ever easy.  

I probably need to go get another consultation done since one said yay & one said nay...you know, as a tie breaker...