What I done and done learned recently!

[jedishampoo]

Hello! This week is almost over, yay!

What I done and done learned recently:

1) It is cold here in Indiana in the winter. Yeah, like I forgot. Sheesh, what is up with freezing your butt off as you go outside in the dark to string holiday lights for your aging parents? When the light-strands only lit halfway, I just left them where I'd put them, because it's just too cold to stand there trying to figure out which light is broken. :)

2) My new eye-doctor had a couple of revelations for me: (a) my eyes are actually a little less nearsighted than they were a couple of years ago; she gave me a lower contact-lens prescription, and it's amazing how the world looks when things are clear. I can read street-signs and everything now! But (b) I have the beginnings of cataracts. I sort of suspected, given that I can't see very well in the dark anymore. The doc pooh-poohed my claim of cataracts because I was much too young-- until she actually looked at my eyes. My dad had cataract surgery in his late 30s, though, so I'm guessing it's genetics. I won't have to have surgery right away, but eventually I'll have to have the darned things lasered out. Sigh.

3) I keep being told that rather than buy all my books, I should go to the library and read them for free. Except... I went to the library tonight, and it closed at 6:00! SIX! Apparently, the Indianapolis library system had its funding cut, and they had to drastically shorten their hours. And yet the city is paying millions to keep the Pacers here. It seems unfair that literacy and education is always going to take last place to everything else. I have lots of friends who are teachers, and what they're paid is criminally low. Grrrr!

Hugs to everyone reading this. ♥ I hope you are all awesome.

Comments

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, *sigh* knowing what public libraries have gone through in the last twelve years or so, between the economy, and the impact of the internet and cell phones (think about it), is one of the few things that makes me not so sad about losing my career. I get used books (the DIRT CHEEP ones) from places like betterworld and amazon myself, and call it a day, I am embarrassed to say.

That's a shame about the cataracts, but the good news is the laser surgery these days is no big deal - my mom had hers done and it was like nothing. No biggie at all. I am SUPER nearsighted, too, and the thing with them getting less nearsighted is funny isn't it? It's weird after all those years of your eyes getting steadily worse and worse, and now, what, they are... better? Huh? But then comes the point - if you are like me, that they get better enough that you actually need bifocals to do the near-far thing. It's so messed up. Now, if I wear my contacts (they don't make bifocal ones in my strength, of course, and even if they did, they would be heinously expensive) I have to wear drug-store reading glasses to read anything! Argghh!! Can't win for losing.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I"ve got horrible eyes (I suspect it's something in Indiana's water supply, hahah) I've had one retina detachment surgery, had that rk surgery on one eye but didn't have the money to get it on the other, and I had to shell out a fortune to a specialist to find out I have cataracts forming on both eyes (Which I knew) the eye that had the RK surgery on it had developed some wierd new form of astigmatism, and the retina in my left eye has pinholes and weak points in and I need laser surgery to tack it into place.

Happy fucking new year. Well, it's still better than going blind, the first doctor I went to see upset me so much I threw up in his parking lot from the panic attack.

[beellegee.livejournal.com]

Which is worse? Getting attacked by bees, fire ants, and biting gnats while you're putting up Christmas lights or freezing your butt off? At least it only comes once a year right?

It is a good thing to be able to see clear. My prescription is way overdue and presently I have a hard time seeing up close and far away. Maybe by the time you need the cataract surgery they will have discovered some new, easier way of correcting them.

And, I totally agree with you about education and literacy taking a backseat to sports. It's ridiculous. This country's priorities are really screwed up!

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

My parents have both had cataract surgery in the past year and both wish they'd done it sooner.

So as soon as they think it's time, go for it. Plus, you get the added benefit of having vision correction at the same time. So yay.

[caeseria.livejournal.com]

At least you'll be able to find the light string again in the snow and cold when you light them back up (if they are not buried under snow!)

Wow. That's... I hope you are okay. Still, laser surgery isn't too bad these day from what I hear, so I hope things go well for you. *hugs*

[seshats-prodigy.livejournal.com]

You're sweet to do the lights for your parents like that. ♥ And yeah...I nearly died when I saw snow last week. It made me sad... -_-;

Sorry to hear about your eyes, but I guess it's good that they know so that they can catch it and deal with it before it gets bad? ♥

PS-Would you be willing to PM me your addy so that I can send you a Christmas card? ♥

[ditch-gospel.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's too bad about your eyes, but it sounds like everything is under control so it probaby won't be too bad.

Christmas lights! They're so pretty, but my family could never be bothered to string any up.

*hugs*