The New Me

Notice that I did not say "The New Improved Me". After probably 3 years of being in denial I finally made the journey to the eye doctor. It first hit me a couple of years ago when my license expired and I had to stick my forehead on the little thing at the DMV and read the signs, "man that was strange they were a little blurry, don't remember that last time I took this test." I called my brother later that week and told him that and he said it was just beginning and that he had trouble clearly seeing them at his last test too. I just let it slide, whatever. Lately though I have noticed that reading big signs far away I have to decipher some of the words to know what the entire phrase is on the sign - not so good. So to the doctor I went.

First - the Dr. couldn't believe that I had never had an eye exam. What the hell for, I could see just fine?

Second - I questioned everything he was going to do with these high tech machines, these are my eyes and my only eyes your dealing with, (especially after the phone call with my brother where he said they were going to poke my eye with needles).

Third - The infamous letter find! So now they have made it where you can't even cheat on these tests because they are on the computer and once you read one they jumble up the letters - damn. So I am taking the test and keep telling the doc, I just don't like to fail, I don't want to fail. So I start reading a line and tell him, "okay, the first one is "S" then next one I can't really read, the next one is a "C" or a "G" - and so on. After I can look with both eyes I see that my multiple choice didn't even work - it was an "O" - shit! I Failed.

So all in all I failed my damn eye exam and broke down and bought the glasses and wear them when I am driving or walking around or in a meeting when I need to see stuff on a board far away, sitting at my computer or just doing things around the house I don't need them, so I don't wear them. Katelynn of course picked up the word "glasses" in one day and has been pretty good about not trying to rip them off my face. At work a couple people have told me I now look "smart" (what did I look like before?) and that I look like a librarian (great, I know that was the image I was shooting for). So hear you go - there are 2 pics of me and my glasses.