I moved my eye doctor’s appointment up from November to this past Monday. I have been having a lot of trouble seeing. Reading is the worst. I enjoy reading and I have books I need to be reading, but right now all the words are fuzzy and it gives me a headache. It was a big change that came on suddenly.
The result of the eye appointment is that I am getting older and need bifocals. It is not welcome news as I like having the ability to see and now need vision corrections for both near and far. My prescription went through a couple other massive changes and now I am getting a headache trying to write this.
I recall a time when they used to do same day eyeglasses. Maybe I am recalling a time that never existed but I remember places like Lens Crafters, Four Eyes, and Pearl Vision having fierce competition, and convenance was a part of it. Buy one pair of glasses and get one on us and all that jazz.
We will see how these new glasses work out because the other option is lasik and reading glasses, but I am not too keen on having a laser shot into my eyes. I think that might hurt. Plus that is how we ended up with Sandy.
Sandy was a small chihuahua that we had a few years ago. She was 15 when we got her and lived to be 18. In my infinite wisdom I decided the perfect time to stop at the animal rescue was immediately after my father’s lasik surgery. I later read the paperwork and saw the notice about making big decisions on it.
Sandy was meant to be my mother’s dog, but she didn’t want an older dog that kind of smelled, yapped a lot, and wouldn’t stop peeing on the floor. That was all sorts of fun. In part Sandy is the reason we’re living in this house instead of my parent’s old beach house. Sandy peed on the floors so much that the entire house needed new carpeting before the twins arrived.
In one last ironic move Sandy passed away before the boys were born. I was much sadder about it than I thought I would be. That dog might have smelled bad and peed everywhere all the time, but she was a loving little bugger.
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