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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.

You know.. so a couple of weeks ago, I broke my glasses. So I went to the same eye doctor i went to the last time I needed glasses. They were old anyway, and I needed new ones before they broke. This was just the stick that broke the camels b... glasses. lol. So when I walked in there, the doctor was out sick, so I scheduled for a week later since I'm only off one weekday a week.  Went to my appointment... Doctor was out sick STILL, (they say they tried to call, but they didn't, and they didn't leave a message or send a text or anything.) So I RESCHEDULED.

Now... Today was my fault, I went a week early, because I forgot my appointment was next week.  Doctor is still out sick, so I can't do a walk in (which is how it's supposed to work anyway.) So I'm  thinking... At this point, I've been two weeks without my glasses, wearing 8 year old glasses that I can't really see that well at varying distances. (but I can see well enough to drive, so I can get to work and wear them on my head the majority of the rest of my day at work.)

Anyway, given he's been out this long, I think I'll be pretty po'd if I waste ANOTHER only weekday off going to an appointment that is cancelled, so I decided to see if I could get in somewhere else. So I did. and I could.  Long story short. I could have already had my glasses by now if I'd gone to Stanton in the first place.  I had a great experience.  I was able to schedule my appointment online at the red light waiting to turn into the parking lot. (Don't worry kids. It's a very long light, which I knew, and I would have put my phone down immediately if it had changed before I was finished.) 2 minutes before the appointment time. lol. 

They were SUPER efficient getting me through all the little machines that do various testing including the "puff of air" machine (That's literally what the technicians were calling it.  I know it's to test for glaucoma), and  then back to the waiting room for I kid you not, long enough to go to the ladies room and sit down.  Then they had me in the doctor room, and my doctor visit was very different.  My eye doctor was on a video screen in a remote location, and he worked all the controls on the device from there. You know the machine you look through and read stuff and then the doctor flips the lenses back and for the "This one? or this one?" flip flap.. ."Number one? Or number two? Are they about the same?". So that was an interesting experience.  Then the same thing for my reading lens, only he DID have to wait for a technician to come in and swing the reading card down, and that did take about 2 minutes while the bell was ringing for her. Either way, it was all really efficient. The doctor didn't get impatient with me when I asked him to flip the lenses a little slower because I do need a second or two to acclimate each time it's flipped. In fact at one point, he stopped and asked me to just close my eyes for a moment and then blink them for a few times before continuing.  I gotta say that was refreshing.

The optician was also really good.  He was an older gentleman.  He was really good example of a good salesman without coming off as pushy at all.  He listened to my preferences, and noted the couple I pointed out and one that I tried on, and then let me browse while he browsed for me as well based on my tastes.  And I have to say he really did come back with some winners.  For my daily wear glasses I picked the first one he picked for me over the top pick I had found myself.  For my computer glasses (this will be a first for me) I picked my top pick over his.  So we both won. lol. He took the time to explain each charge, and how the insurance did or did not effect that. My second pair was 60% off anyway (which is common around here.  Most places have buy one get one anywhere from 50% to 100% off.)

I made sure my pupilary distance was on my prescription and the optician pointed out that it was already there as part of the script (as it should be). Used to be you had to ask for it to get it, and often they would argue with you about whether you needed it, and some places would even try to charge you for it, saying it meant they had to measure as if like they didn't normally do that. Um.. NO... You do normally have to do it and if you DIDN'T measured it for my glasses in the first place, then I'm certainly not buying glasses from you!  Do I buy glasses online? Yes. Yes I do. I have for nearly 20 years now.  But I also generally buy them from the place I got my eyes checked if if they have an optician, and my insurance covers frames, and if I can find frames I like that ARE covered by enough that I can still afford them. But I like options, and my last pair of glasses from Zenni lasted me 4 years before *I* broke them.  They were really good. I could see well up until maybe the last year or so.  So yes, I'll be ordering glasses from them as well so I will have choices.  I'm probably going to order a new pair of sunglasses, as my sunglasses are *6* years old. I can still see fine to drive with them, but it's time to update them.

So that's my little experience with the eye doctor today. lol New glasses in one to two weeks.  (Man whatever happened to same day service on glasses?)