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Jab Jab JAB!!
Dude. I finally got my third jab yesterday. The first two I barely felt. This one holy crap, I watched her put the needle in and it was like "NO I'M NOT GOING IN!" The pharmacist saw it too. She said something like "Man... I need to order some different needles, these are not very sharp," and it wasn't! It stopped three times, once at the skin JAB, once I assume at the outside of the first muscle, JAB and then what? Freaking BONE? lol. She had to really use some force. Thankfully I'm not a baby. But my arm is pretty sore today, where previously I really didn't have much pain at the injection site. On my second jab, I grew a small extra boob in my armpit for a couple of days, which is a pretty common occurrence. It wasn't sore, just felt weird. For the record, I always intended to have the booster, I was just having trouble scheduling it as I wanted to schedule it the day before my day off in case of discomfort. So I was talking to my boss about how I could never find an appointment available on the day I needed it at the time I needed it (right after work) and she says to me "YOU don't need an appointment. YOU work here. Just go back there and ask Annie to give it to you." So now I know that and now it's done, and in two weeks my immunity will be boosted back up into a better wall.
My glasses came in. The ones from Zenni came to my house, so I have them on. I can see better and without feeling like I'm straining to stay focussed. My weaker scrip is actually more comfortable and I can see JUST FINE far away. I'm hoping that the ones I ordered from Stanton specifically for computer will be better though. I can wear these and use the computer, but I need the screen pretty far away. I think I might not mind that, but after complaining about having to have my glasses off and my screen RIGHT IN MY FRAKIN FACE to read it for several weeks, I'm still adjusting. HOWEVER, given that I now have a weaker distance prescription, and thus a weaker reading lense, I feel like my progressives may finally be back to being ALL USE instead of "Have to take them off to do this or that. and I may not need a specialized pair of glasses. I'm about to leave to go get my glasses. I'm just waiting for my advil to kick in because SORE ARM and driving is less desirable than not quite as sore arm and driving. I'm glad my scrip appears to be better. I can definitely tell that the tweak to my left eye astigmatism has improved my clarity, but I still need to see an ophthalmologist about the cataract I'm pretty sure I have in my left eye, and I don't know if anything can even be done about the floaters. Last I read there was nothing to do about them. They look like big particles of dust and sometimes interfere with my ability to focus that eye. Ugh.
So that's my report for today.
ETA: Back from picking up my glasses from Stanton. Yeah... So I can actually use the computer PRETTY well with my daily wear glasses on. It's going to take some time to retrain myself to LEAVE MY GLASSES on when I'm reading. Because every single time I go to read something (other than on the screen) I keep shoving my glasses up on my head because I'm SO many years of used to having to do that if I want to see anything. I can focus very well close up now through my lenses even on fine print. I feel at computer distance I can see just a LITTLE better reading the screen in the computer glasses, but I don't actually feel like I NEED a different pair of glasses for that. My mid distance is pretty darn good with my progressive in a way that my old glasses were not. AND I can see some pretty fine details on the top branches of that tree over there in the back yard of the house a street over from mine (at least) which I COULD do with my old glasses, but not without feeling like my eyes were being sucked out of my head. I can't tell you the number of times over the last ten years I have told eye doctors over and over and over "My new glasses make me feel like my eye is being sucked out." and being told "You'll get used to it". No... that is not the right answer. The right answer was "Let me recheck your prescription and see what went wrong to make you so uncomfortable. Now I wish I'd been fitted with contacts too, because with this scrip, I could have multi focal lenses and actually READ through them. I needed a +300 before to counter the strength of the prescription, and the highest they went was +250 and now my Add is only +200. Wow.
My glasses came in. The ones from Zenni came to my house, so I have them on. I can see better and without feeling like I'm straining to stay focussed. My weaker scrip is actually more comfortable and I can see JUST FINE far away. I'm hoping that the ones I ordered from Stanton specifically for computer will be better though. I can wear these and use the computer, but I need the screen pretty far away. I think I might not mind that, but after complaining about having to have my glasses off and my screen RIGHT IN MY FRAKIN FACE to read it for several weeks, I'm still adjusting. HOWEVER, given that I now have a weaker distance prescription, and thus a weaker reading lense, I feel like my progressives may finally be back to being ALL USE instead of "Have to take them off to do this or that. and I may not need a specialized pair of glasses. I'm about to leave to go get my glasses. I'm just waiting for my advil to kick in because SORE ARM and driving is less desirable than not quite as sore arm and driving. I'm glad my scrip appears to be better. I can definitely tell that the tweak to my left eye astigmatism has improved my clarity, but I still need to see an ophthalmologist about the cataract I'm pretty sure I have in my left eye, and I don't know if anything can even be done about the floaters. Last I read there was nothing to do about them. They look like big particles of dust and sometimes interfere with my ability to focus that eye. Ugh.
So that's my report for today.
ETA: Back from picking up my glasses from Stanton. Yeah... So I can actually use the computer PRETTY well with my daily wear glasses on. It's going to take some time to retrain myself to LEAVE MY GLASSES on when I'm reading. Because every single time I go to read something (other than on the screen) I keep shoving my glasses up on my head because I'm SO many years of used to having to do that if I want to see anything. I can focus very well close up now through my lenses even on fine print. I feel at computer distance I can see just a LITTLE better reading the screen in the computer glasses, but I don't actually feel like I NEED a different pair of glasses for that. My mid distance is pretty darn good with my progressive in a way that my old glasses were not. AND I can see some pretty fine details on the top branches of that tree over there in the back yard of the house a street over from mine (at least) which I COULD do with my old glasses, but not without feeling like my eyes were being sucked out of my head. I can't tell you the number of times over the last ten years I have told eye doctors over and over and over "My new glasses make me feel like my eye is being sucked out." and being told "You'll get used to it". No... that is not the right answer. The right answer was "Let me recheck your prescription and see what went wrong to make you so uncomfortable. Now I wish I'd been fitted with contacts too, because with this scrip, I could have multi focal lenses and actually READ through them. I needed a +300 before to counter the strength of the prescription, and the highest they went was +250 and now my Add is only +200. Wow.