On Tuesday, I innocently set off to acquire my new contact lenses. Alas, the optometrist had other plans. After studying my right eye for a few moments, he wanted to know why it was scratched. This information, I must say, came as news. Normally, this is the sort of thing one notices--you know, eyeball, skritch, ow--but apparently, I somehow managed to scratch myself up without feeling anything. I'm talented that way, I guess. In any event, the optometrist asked me not to wear my right contact lens until after my second checkup on Thursday.
Now, I'm practically blind with my contacts out, which is what happens when your vision is approximately 20/1200. (Translation: Eye chart? There's an eye chart over there? Come to think of it, there's a wall over there?) Worse still, I haven't been able to wear glasses since I switched to RGP contacts in college; apparently, this is not an uncommon problem. And so, I've spent the past two days seeing 20/20 out of one eye and 20/1200 out of the other. As I explained to my students today, I wasn't ignoring anybody sitting to my right--it's just that they were, you know, not there. Not surprisingly, some students thought that being invisible might be a good thing...
I am also 20/1200. I've never met anyone quite as blind before. How can you function with one lens out? If it were me, I think I'd need to patch the other eye.
Posted by: Denise | March 29, 2006 at 09:45 PM