So, I’ve been having some eye issues. Just one eye. Tried cleaning my glasses about 100 times over the last few days until I realized that the problem wasn’t dirty glasses (Yes, I do have a real law degree). I decide to make an appointment … I’m thinking, 1, 2 or 3 weeks out. Maybe after the new year. I’m in no hurry. So, I call.
It took the scheduler about 30 seconds of my explaining the symptoms before she says, “let me get the triage nurse.” Really? I’m just calling for an appointment! Less than 15 seconds and triage is on the line. He asks me a few more questions and says, “you need to come in.” YEA, that’s why I am calling! “No,” he says, “right now.”
Now, one might think that seeing the ophthalmologist won’t be painful but it was. After the “drops” the lights were so bright that I asked for a cocktail to match my dilated eyes! They numb, they poke, they shine things … “look up, look right, look up right…” Enough already!
Two hours later I had an answer. Could be worse. Gotta go back every three weeks, for now. He tells me that although it won’t go away, my mind will adjust to the change and eventually I won’t even notice it. Nice, really nice. My mind can’t adjust to daylight savings time or the fact that my kids are taller than me. How am I going to adjust to this?
So, I ask, “how did this happen?” He turns to me with a straight face (… mind you, he looks to be in his mid-30’s) … “just by getting older,” he says. That, my friends, is the name of the game. We are getting older. Sometimes gracefully. Sometimes not. But it is happening and there’s no turning back. I decided, as I must .. as we all must, that it’s ok. It’s going to be the new normal. I’m going to love this change just like I “love” all the other “changes!” (Seriously, I can justify almost anything).
I leave and decide I need a “bump.” So, when I get home I open up a bag of M & M’s, get a glass of wine and watch an old holiday musical. If I have to get older, I want to do it with chocolate and wine in my blood stream with a little of Bing singing on the TV screen!
Have a wonderful day!
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