I am indeed, as I suspected, blinder than last year.

I proved this even before getting my eyes tested: I had to circle to look for parking, and consequently lost all sense of where the lake was (the best way to tell direction in Chicago). At a 3-way intersection (where my eye doctor is) I had to make a turn onto Ashland. Well, even with my contacts in, I couldn't tell (from the half-block away where I had to commit to the turn) which street was which. I could see the lettering on the signs, but couldn't read them. Granted, these are not big signs. But in one year!

So I have new contacts, and Jon is going to help me choose new glasses frames. You know, ones that I might wear once in a blue moon. My boss says she knows a really good frame store.
My new contacts are ok to sleep in. So this morning I woke up and could read the alarm clock!! It was amazing, and I didn't have the overly dry, extra crusty, really skeezy feeling of having accidentally fallen asleep in contacts. It actually felt like I could see. and made me feel a lot better about the fact that I my vision has not, actually, stabilized like it is supposed to when you become an adult.
- posted by Heidi @ 8:15 AM