It's the moment (that everything happens)
Today I was meant to get most of my work done on an animation job. Instead I spent many hours waiting at the eye doc for a contact fitting. "Contacts?" You say. "Yes, contacts." I respond with a slight edge to my voice. While in DC my sister suggested I switch to contacts when I finally get my prescription updated. She felt I would look better without glasses (I disagreed) but also pointed out the vision correction is often better with contacts. A few weeks back I talked to eye doc while getting my prescription updated finally, and he agreed that, with my prescription, I'd be getting bad chromatic aberration with glasses. My last two pairs of glasses have had this issue, and it was beginning to drive me crazy. I was also not getting a good steropsis since much of each eye's view was uniquely color shifted. It's bad when your peripheral vision is all rainbow shifted to red or blue.
With contacts I'd get a clear correction across my whole vision field, and less distortion from my odd astigmatism. Today I got to try out the contacts for the first time. After a few minutes with them in I had to admit I didn't see very well at all. After the eye doc pointed out I'd unseated the lenses and they were now lodged in my eye lids we adjusted them, fussed, and I suddenly saw better than I have since I was 14.
The eye strain of having hard contacts seems manageable. After six hours with them in I still see clearly, and they don't hurt at all. Getting them in and out is a nightmare, since they are so small, but I imagine I'll get the hang of it soon enough. I suspect friends and family will find it odd to see me without glasses. Half the time I see myself it's in the mirror as I brush my teeth, get out of a shower, or get out of bed. Most of those times I don't have glasses on, so I have a god sense of what I look like without them. My wife sees me without glasses often enough to be sort of used to it as well. For everyone else I suspect I'll look like something is missing.
I'm still pushing my nonexistent glasses up my nose involuntarily every five minutes or so.
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Life takes a long time. I'm tired, and I'm only roughly half way through it. I need to sleep more often.
With contacts I'd get a clear correction across my whole vision field, and less distortion from my odd astigmatism. Today I got to try out the contacts for the first time. After a few minutes with them in I had to admit I didn't see very well at all. After the eye doc pointed out I'd unseated the lenses and they were now lodged in my eye lids we adjusted them, fussed, and I suddenly saw better than I have since I was 14.
The eye strain of having hard contacts seems manageable. After six hours with them in I still see clearly, and they don't hurt at all. Getting them in and out is a nightmare, since they are so small, but I imagine I'll get the hang of it soon enough. I suspect friends and family will find it odd to see me without glasses. Half the time I see myself it's in the mirror as I brush my teeth, get out of a shower, or get out of bed. Most of those times I don't have glasses on, so I have a god sense of what I look like without them. My wife sees me without glasses often enough to be sort of used to it as well. For everyone else I suspect I'll look like something is missing.
I'm still pushing my nonexistent glasses up my nose involuntarily every five minutes or so.
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Life takes a long time. I'm tired, and I'm only roughly half way through it. I need to sleep more often.