update on my eyes.

They're doing ok so far. My left eye's vision is better than the right one. If I had to venture a guess I'd say my left is at around 20/30, maybe 20/25. The right one, I'm guessing is still at around 20/40. It kind of bothers me 'cause I can tell there is a difference between them, especially with distance vision. Close vision is about the same, but I think the left may be just a tad worse than the right one in that respect.

My right eye feels like there is something in it almost constantly. My left is only once in a while with that sensation. The scratch that occured on my left eye is virtually gone, there is only a hint of redness where the scratch was. So that is good.

My follow up appointment is on Friday, which is also the day I technically can stop taking the eye drops. I hope everything checks out ok on Friday, but one thing I'm definitely going to ask about if it hasn't gone away by then is the constant feeling of something being in my right eye. It's quite annoying, especially since I cannot rub my eyes..

that helped a little

Sculpting was a little theraputic. It usually is.

We'll be leaving shortly. I need to go find a book to take with me for all the time I'll be waiting around. I'll be taking my PDA as well. Gotta have something to do while I wait.

I'll write again when I return home, as long as I can see well enough. If I can't, I'll try to type up something like I did the other day by touch type, and hope that I don't mess up too much. My vision may be corrected at that point, but if the dilating does the same thing it did the other day, corrected vision won't do me much good, at least for a little while. ;o)

Tah for now.

RSS 2.0, now with full posts

Mac and Josh will be happy to know that I got the full posts thing to work with the RSS 2.0 feed.

Now Josh will want me to tweak his blog so it works the same way. Sometime later today, most likely.

Man, they weren't kidding when they said these dialating drops could last from 6 to 24 hours. My eyes aren't fully dialated anymore, but they're still not back to normal. Hey, wait. It's been longer than 24 hours, man! What's up with that?

It probably won't be much longer 'til they're back to normal, though. I just checked them again in the bathroom by looking at the lights. They don't go down to their smallest size yet, but they're getting there. Josh & I joked that they wouldn't be back to normal until it's time to get them dialated again tomorrow. Hehe.

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades…

My eyes are still dialated fully, so I am sensitive to light, but I can see much better. Looking at my MT screen hurts like hell, so I've put on the cheesey roll-up shades they gave me before I left BDP this morning. It helps, except it makes text look a tad blurry.

I wonder when the dialation will go away?

I was told that the dialating drops they use for the surgery won't last as long as the ones they used today. Can you imagine if I had had to work today? I would have been useless for the first three hours of my shift. The dialation shot my short range vision to shit, and my distance vision, while better, was still blurred.

Put it this way, thankfully I don't need street signs to find my way home. Oh, I could see well enough to tell when a light was green or red, or to gauge how far behind a car I was, but I couldn't read squat, not even the speedometer in my car.

mornings are for the birds

Yes indeed.
I am definitely not a morning person, and never have been. Don't know if I ever will be.

All I can think about right now is climbing back into bed for more sleep. Precious sleep.

Some people think sleep is a waste of time. Not me.

Ugh.

Well, gotta go get dressed, and then rush-hour traffic and my eye appointment await.

Tah for now.

early to bed, early to rise

Since I have my eye appointment in the morning, I'm going to try to go to bed at midnight.

Considering I woke up just before noon today, I'm sure it will take two hours for me to fall asleep.

I'm still debating how I'm going to get to 20th Street & Camelback. Do I take the freeway, part of which will be on the I-17, which sucks much ass with rush-hour traffic?

Or should I just try driving all the way down Camelback road from the Loop 101 on the west side? But that would mean lots and lots of stop lights.

I think I'll risk the traffic and take the I-17. I'll leave at 7am, hopefully that will give me plenty of time to get to the eye center by 8.

Murphy’s Law at work

We had a late lunch today at Bill Johnson's Big Apple with Josh's dad, while his dad's truck was at Just Brakes getting the rear rotors turned.

When we were done eating, and headed to the truck, to the left of our vehicle was a car that parked too close to the driver's side door, so Josh handed me the keys. I can more easily squeeze into the truck if the door can't open more than a foot.

Anyway, I squeeze into the driver's seat and Josh & his dad climb into the truck on the other side. I put the key into the ignition, and turn it.

on the subject of computers..

We've bought several computers over the years. We've owned a range of different brands.. Apple, Compaq, Toshiba, Gateway, IBM, Sony, Alienware, and one computer swiped from a now defunct ISP that Josh used to work for (and no, it is not the same company I currently work for, I wouldn't call this place defunct just yet) that was put together from parts.

The Compaq was the first desktop we owned, and we quickly grew to hate it because it was virtually impossible to upgrade it with non-Compaq parts. We owned a Toshiba laptop before the Compaq, and it was OK for its time. I think this was before CD-ROM drives became a standard feature on computers, so we were loading all software from 3.5" floppy disks.

The next desktop PC Josh bought was a Gateway, and my computer at that time was the stolen-from-the-dead-ISP model. Both worked pretty good. Gateway had pretty decent computers & service, so when we could afford it, I ordered my own new computer from them as well. We had those two computers for a while, upgrading them with new video cards, hard drives, and memory.

Well, Josh's P2 400, while working well enough, couldn't keep up with the ever changing technology of first-person shooter games, so we bought our first Sony, and along with it, a spiffy new Nvidia video card (can't recall which model). He quickly found that the Sony did not like the Nvidia card, and would lock up the system.

He looked around for other options. After a bad experience with Gateway's customer service when we ordered a laptop from them and it had bad pixels (wanted replacement with guarantee of 0 bad pixels, but they found 10% bad pixels acceptable.. so we returned the stupid thing, and went with another Sony laptop, I believe), we decided to shy away from them, and we discovered Alienware.

This is a company where you can get customized computers with colored cases. Josh chose a Martian Red case (and matching keyboard & mouse). I got the Sony, because it worked fine with my current video card. My Gateway went to (or maybe we sold it to him? I can't remember) one of Josh's friends.

So I have my Sony (the first one), and he has his red Alienware. Hardware upgrades follow as warranted.

Then my hard drive on my Sony bites the dust. We're not exactly sure what happened, as we were still able to retrieve all of my data from it, and the same hard drive is working perfectly fine in that Sony now. But at the time it looked hopeless (that dumb thing just would not boot). So, since we had the money, or the balance on a credit card, rather, we went and bought me a nice new Sony to replace it. Old Sony gets reformated after retrieving my data, and gets given to the same friend who got my Gateway. (I think the gateway fell victim to their toddler). That Sony is still working quite well as far as I am aware.

Then Alienware comes out with a new style of case, that looks, conveniently enough, like an elongated alien head. He drools. He wants. He wants bad.

So we get an alien-head-shaped case Alienware, this time in blue (with matching keyboard.. at this point he has a new mouse and doesn't feel like changing it, so does not order a mouse from AW). The red Alienware gets formatted and turned over to me. The second Sony, well, for a while it served as a network server for our printer, and for various shared files. Now, as my previous entry states, it is going to my parents for $800.

The Alienware is a P4 1.7GHz, while the Sony is 1.8, but the Alienware has at least twice as much RAM, so that's no big deal for the minor loss of processor speed.

Card collecting

I get e-mail from eBay every now and then, because I asked for them. (just specific news letters). Recently, I got one that was a "Toys, Hobbies, Dolls & Bears Seller Newsletter". In it was a list of "Hot Selling Items". In that list was a link for Magic: The Gathering.

I clicked that link.
Found a few cards that were selling for a couple hundred dollars.

Holy schnykies!

whoops

I must retract something I said earlier about the Hershey's sugar free peanut butter cups.

They do have the warning on the back of the package that says the same thing as the Russell Stover's version. It was so small I missed it. The primary sweetner in the Hershey's sugar free candies is Lactitol, and sucralose is listed in the ingredients, although it is the very last thing listed, so they use very little of it.

In Russell Stover's version, they use maltitol as their sugar substitute.

Since the "laxative effect" didn't hit until yesterday (nearly two days after eating the Russell Stover's peanut butter cups), I could presume it was the Hershey's sugar free PB cups afterall, since I ate those more recently.

Only way to find out for sure will be to experiment on one of my weekends.

Yeah, that should be real fun.

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