So, my eyes hurt today. I needed to put three drops in each eye because they felt really dry! This is only a little bit concerning and by, “A little bit,” I mean, “A LOT!”
For the past 20 years, I have thought about the day I was diagnosed and the doctor (whom I had never seen before or after) telling me that I had MS by nonchalantly telling me and my Mom that, “Look, you have MS, you are going to go blind, and then you are going to die” before spinning around on her heel and leaving the room.”
Now, it is becoming apparent to me that my vision is changing and quite drastically. I’ve always had pretty thick glasses but my contacts have stayed the same prescription for about three years. My most recent prescription is a full number greater and in addition to wearing my contacts, when I am watching TV, or looking at my phone, I have to wear glasses. The glasses are simple nerd non-prescription glasses I bought on Amazon but my Neural ophthalmologist fashioned them to have a prism on my right eye so it looks a little better to just have glasses on then wearing an eyepatch like a pirate.
My brother, Dave, calls me “Six eyes” because I have my contacts and glasses and my normal eyes. I was FaceTimed with Sean a while back and I saw myself in my phone and I told him that I looked looked like Squints from The Sandlot. He laughed and agreed and when I told Dave what I told Sean about me looking like Squints, He laughed hysterically and hearing him laugh made me laugh even more so we both laughed for like five minutes at least:
When setting up my iPhone that I recently got, I had to put the settings to almost the largest text size. This is how big my texts are now:
But even with the settings at almost the largest in my phone, it’s difficult to read Facebook even with both my glasses and contacts in. So I wait until nighttime to edit my posts when I don’t have my contacts in at all. I DO wonder if I am going blind though…