Tag: blindness

Okay. . . Maybe not all that scary but when it comes to blindness, well, today is the last day I get to quibble about my blindness. It may also be the last day I ever see again. Hopefully, it is the last day I ever have to wear my contact lenses and/or glasses. I’ve been nearsighted for most my life and tomorrow I’m being blessed to have the corrective eye surgery, PRK (photorefractive keratectomy). I’ve been procuring reminisceful and futuristic thoughts today...the final day of blurry vision. Yipee!! No more nightly contact routine or wasting a good 15 minutes every morning trying (and failing) to get an unforeseen fleck off my contact. The above quandary can progress into quite the fiasco, typically ending in a “hands up, I surrender,” then using an unused contact which always results in an uneven number of contacts lenses. Now –I’m in a pinch, with two left eye contacts in both eyes (I have different prescriptions for each eye) which...