I have to start this post with a flashback to the summer before my senior year in high school. I was playing in a summer league basketball game at the local university, for my high school team. If I was passed the ball around the free throw line I liked to take a couple dribbles and push my way to the hoop. This day was no different except for one thing...... The kid who was guarding me reached out to hit the ball at the same time I was making my power move. Needless to say the guy stopped me in my tracks, not because he was an amazing basketball player, but because his finger went deep into my eye. Sparing the gory details, I was seeing double for a couple days, and had scratches on eyeball!!
Everything healed up fine except for one thing.
My new fear of anything going into my eyes!!!!!
For this reason I have only had my eyes checked one other time, I have glasses, and there is no way in hell I would ever wear contacts because that would mean I would have to put something into my eye!!
That intro was all for this. I went and had my eyes checked this last week because my old glasses are scratched up to the point where they are pretty much useless, and I had a funny feeling my vision has deteriorated in my old age. The first little while was fine, no big deal however, but then the guy wanted to put drops in my eye. I made it through with a warning to the Doc, that I will flinch, and lose all control of my reflexes, so a shot to the groin would not be out of the realm of possibility. His approach was cautious but we made it through with him only missing my eye 3 times! There were a couple fairly violent twitches that may have contributed. After the extremely bright blue light was touching my eyes, I though I was in the clear and when the Doc, asked if he could dilate my eyes I agreed without hesitation (besides what could be worse than what I had just dealt with... Right?!?). Little did I know this required more drops, more violent spasms from me, more wiping my cheeks clean of some horrible solution because of my high school flash backs, and more extremely bright lights being shined into my eyes mere fractions from my eyeballs!!!!!!!!!!
Needless to say, I didn't mind the enhanced sensitivity to light and the blurry drive back to work. I was through the worst. I just sat in my office with the lights off for the rest of the day and dealt with the headache brought on by the stress of the situation.
And for the record I don't think I could ever get Laser Eye surgery because I have seen what they do to you on discovery health!!!!!!!!!!
