I must tell you that having MS for 23 years ain’t no joke!!! Things are really starting to take its toll on me now and I’m not quite sure what to do about it…
I went to my optometrist appointment last July. After three years of seeing Dr. Harris, he increased my script to a -7.5 strength. We talked about the fact that Dr. Skarf has retired and I told him that I had to see Dr. Bansal.
I made that appointment I think six months before I was going to see her and I made it for downtown Detroit but she changed the location at the last minute so I canceled the appointment.
I am going to look to make that appointment for May 2025. God knows what my eyes will be like then?!!!! MS is different at this point. I’m not sure what to do.
I have a prism in my right eye. Dr. Skarf fit me for the prism by just having me bring in a pair of glasses with no prescription in it. I got it online for $9.99. I have since run over my glasses with my power chair and my Mom was able to peel the prism off of my broken $9.99 glasses to put them on the new pair!
At my appointment in July, Dr. Harris made up a script for glasses for me. Given my disease progression and how it is affecting my eyes, we talked about bifocals.
He brought a pair of lenses that had a 1.5 magnification? Or something like that. He had me look at my phone and then he put those two lenses in front of my phone well I had my contacts in and my glasses with the prison on them on.
The magnification greatly reduced the stress on my eyes, and I could feel it! I have been thinking about that because it is getting increasingly more difficult to put my contacts in my eyes. I can’t control my hands.
It helps that I have been putting them in my eyes for 30 years so it’s a lot of muscle memory but I am losing control of my hands at the same time. Sometimes I drop a contact and my Mom tries to find it.
I didn’t get glasses at my appointment with Dr. Harris last July, I just got more contacts. But he made them up for me and I do think about that. But here’s the thing:
Dr. Harris wants me to get bifocals to reduce the stress on my eyes but I told my Mom when we were driving away from Dr. Harris’s office. She said that she doesn’t need lines for her bifocals?!
I just calmly said to her, “You don’t have optic neuritis in both of your eyes.” She just looked ahead and agreed.
Putting my contacts in, has been difficult as of late and I do wonder about getting bifocals. Maybe then people would know that I am infirmed?! I cannot stop hearing that damn doctor telling me bout me going blind before I die when I was first diagnosed with MS… i’m just not sure what to do with my eyes?