A World without walls
everyday life while homeschooling overseas
I am really loving my new vision. At my 2 week follow up visit, my vision was tested to be -1.25. Wow. So, I'm functioning really well and happy with the progress. The doctor said it wasn't good enough for him yet, but that it will be! :) He said my eyes are healing really well and looking really good. That's always happy to hear. For those of you who are contact lens wearers, you know that vision that you have when it's the end of the day, your eyes are sort of dried out and irritated, and it's time to take out your contacts? How your vision tends to be just a touch blurry so you have to blink a bit to get your eyes to moisten a bit so your vision stabilizes? That's my vision right now. I can see. Most of the time, I hardly notice that it's a touch blurry (unless I focus on it). Sometimes, after blinking a few times or closing my eyes for a few minutes, my vision is so sharp it takes my breath away! Then, I tend to tear up a bit which totally ruins my clear vision! HA! It's lovely. Room camping. The best way. Funnily enough, there are a few side effects that never would have entered my head. First off, I don't have my 'near' vision anymore. I used to have to take off my glasses to read, or to see things up close. I had great close up vision. Now, that's gone...mostly. I can still read and see up close, but it's different than it used to be. I can get used to it, though. :) Another thing I'd never thought about was my nighttime routine! All my life...well, at least for the past 25 years or so, when nighttime came, the major part of my routine was taking out my contacts or taking off my glasses and just sinking into that fuzzy 'underwater' world before going to sleep. Now that I don't have that anymore, my brain keeps telling me to take out my contacts! It's been interesting how tough that's been to get used to--and how it tends to keep me awake longer!! It's getting better, and I'm sure with a few more weeks it'll be fine, but it's something that I'd never even considered. The last one is a funny thing, too. You glasses/contact wearers: You know how you get a little eye strain headache for the first few weeks after getting a new prescription, or a new pair of glasses/contacts? The same thing happens when you get your eyes fixed! It's so funny! As my eyes are adjusting to the new vision, I've had some eye strain headaches very similar to those that I get when I have new glasses! It's beginning to go away again, just like it always has, but that was another thing that I hadn't anticipated. It has been nothing major. Sometimes I've had to take Tylenol or Ibuprofen in order to lessen the headache so I can sleep, but it's been very low grade and I'm sure it'll go away (as a matter of fact, it's been 2 days now since the last headache, so I have hopes). Am I still happy I did this? Absolutely. :) In other news, I'm home from church today because my 3 boys have pink eye. Yuck. My brain is screaming: "Don't let me get pink eye in my new eyes!!!" So I'm OD-ing on the hand sanitizer and soap. Claire is in heaven because I'm forcing everyone to wash their hands every 5 seconds. She thinks it's great that we're finally seeing things on her level of hand cleanliness. The boys are happily sharing germs while building lego hotels right now. Tonight, I'm going to soak the legos in bleach. The good news about all this, though, and one of my favorite things about Jordan, is that I didn't even have to take them to the doctor! Jordan is one of the few places where I can be Dr Mom and get away with it. I know, I know, you should always have a professional look at your issues... However, I KNOW they have pink eye. There is no mistaking it. Red, itchy, swollen, and covered in eye boogers? I don't need to drive over to the dr office, park really far away (it's impossible to get close to our pediatrician's office--even though we all really like him, it's quite the pain), walk half a mile, sit and wait for an hour in a crowded waiting room with other infected kids, to hear a doctor to say, "Yes, it's pink eye. Here's your prescription. Don't forget to pay on the way out." Instead, we walk up the hill next to our house to the local pharmacy, show them Peter's face and ask, "Do you have anything for this?" The pharmacist says, "OH my! Yes, use this one!", gives us antibiotic eye drops, tells us to use them 3 times a day, and 3JD (about 5$) and 5 minutes later, we're good to go! I just saved us gas in the car, 2 hours of travel back and forth and waiting inside, 25JD (about 40$ +) for dr fees, plus who knows when they would have gotten us in? Yes, we love the pharmacy here. And Peter is looking MUCH better today...and Josh and Andrew haven't gotten worse. I call this a win.
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Rosie
6/14/2013 11:43:17 am
How funny, Chase had pink eye this week too. And it is such a pain having to go to the doctor and then the pharmacy, it takes all day! Your way sounds much better! :)
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As a Stay At Home Mom of 4 wonderful children, I have the amazing opportunity not only to home school them, but to do so in many different places! I am married to the most amazingly wonderful (and handsome) man in the whole world! Together, we seek out, every day, that Joy in the Journey that makes life exciting! Archives
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