eye update

[thehefner]

Because friends like icewolf010 and kali921 have been concerned, here's the latest update on my eyeball situation.

The opthimoligist (my father's, came highly recommended) was all business. He just checked me out, didn't say what he thought, but gave me a prescription and told me to make an appointment for next week to see how I'd look after using the drops. So I have no update on what's actually wrong, nor, of course, did I think to ask.

As I have no health insurance, my father is being awesome enough to pay for this. And whatever else will be needed.

So I'll be hazy and blurry in my left eye as I take the drops all week to continuously dilate my left pupil. Driving will be fun!

A Daredevil icon seems rather appropriate here.

Comments

[karmaflouge.livejournal.com]

as great a doctor as he is, i like knowing why and for what i'm taking meds. i'd ask if i were you. because if i'm taking meds and the doctor doesn't tell me why, i get antsy. that's just me, it a thing of mine, don't read too much into it.

wear lotsa sunglasses. i've had my eyes dilated before; you have my sympathies at having to do it for a week.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I was just being foolishly absent-minded by not thinking to ask him. I'm far too trusting of doctors for fear of getting that horrible "You idiot, don't you have any common sense?!" reaction from a doctor.

Sunglasses, yes, thank you, that's one I will need to remember. Wow, the Matt Murdock icons are even more appropriate.

[karmaflouge.livejournal.com]

i myself was victim to that fear of asking doctors stuff for a very long time. i've sort of come to a compromise with myself. if i find myself talking to a doctor who does, in fact, make me feel stupid for asking questions about my own body, i shall find a different doctor. it's worked for me so far.

my father encountered a doctor like that once. every time he talked to them, they made him feel like a total ignoramus for even "doubting" the doctor's knowledge. finally he got fed up (my father has a rather strong personality in a good way) and made the doctor answer every question in enough detail to satisfy my father's sense of knowledge. pissed the doc off to no end, and shortly after that my dad got a different doctor.

it's your body, hon. you have a right to know about what might be wrong with it in as much detail as you want, regardless of the doctor's reaction. but i know what you mean about the "doctor intimidation factor".

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update, sweetie. I agree with your friend above - ask him what he thinks the diagnosis is. Protecting yourself by being a good medical consumer is really important. If he tells you what he thinks it is, then you can do some research on your own on the web, and that makes a difference.

And do wear those sunglasses. Very important when you have a dilated pupil.

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

what you really need is a david bowie icon.

for serious.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Why do you say that, particularly? You got any specific ideas on what would suit?

[2sick2pray.livejournal.com]

It's really weird for me to read this for some reason because I've always been the opposite... I've always felt it necessary to be firm and ask as many questions as you can with doctors. But I think it's mainly cause I don't trust/like doctors on the whole and always like to be able to form my own opinion so I feel less like I'm being swindled.

Actually now that I think of it I'm probably more bitchy on a regular habitual basis to doctors than I am to anyone else in the world. And now that I think of it, that makes alot of sense for alot of reasons. But it's probably also a bad idea. Never know when I'll need some life-saving operation.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Well, I really do need to be more like you at times like this. And at auditions, and job interviews, and such. It makes perfect sense to me.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Dunno if I'll be able to, the guy is always busy and totally booked. But I shall try.

I have shades. Lord, I hope I don't have to wear those huge clunky old lady shades, god, I hate those.

[2sick2pray.livejournal.com]

ummmmm ... sorry?

I didn't mean to sound like I was offering advice or saying what I do is the right way to go about anything - sorry if it sounded that way or just came off as extraordinarily bitchy.



unless of course I'm way off in my detection of angry sarcasm here... on the internet it can be hard to tell.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

No, no! I was being serious! I wasn't being sarcastic! Sorry!

Stupid LJ and AIM. I've actually lost more than one friendship due to the loss of tone and facial expressions.

[2sick2pray.livejournal.com]

i'm sure i was just being stupid and paranoid. my bad. I always worry about accidentally offending people on the internet for the very same reason. boo inflection-less conversation...

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

why, because david bowie has a permenantly dialated eye, though I can't recall which one.

and which, I think it has to be either a Ziggy Stardust icon, or a Goblin King icon. Just because.

maybe instead of his face, you could have the glorious cod-piece from Labyrinth.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Aha! That's Ziggy, I'm fairly certain! Must find pictures. Good suggestion!

But there's no way I'm posting Bowie's crotch here. It's bad enough he's stolen my thunder by being solidified as the sole cause for the sexual awakening for every girl who saw it. If anything, I'll put on a Goblin King costume and post my *own* marvelous crotch, thank you very much.

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

my dad calls my grandmother's huge clunky old lady shades her terminator glasses.

man, it would be awesome and hugely terrifying if they made grandmother-shaped terminators.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think any of us would see that coming, would we?

Now if I found yellow versions of those old lady goggles, I could always just play it off like I'm trying to emulate Booster Gold.