ZZZZAAAAPP!!

Extra holy iris, Batman!!! 

Last April or May, my sweet husband finaly went to the eye doctor after an extended period between visits due to a lack of insurance/mulah.  He got online and found a doctor listed on our vision plan who was close to home.  To make a long story short, my incredibly impatient husband was incredibly pleased with the doctor who spent 2 HOURS fitting Beau with contacts that actually fit.  Wow.  Beau had such a good experience that I decided I should go get my eyes checked.  My vision is fine, but I hadn't been to an eye doctor in 8 or so years.  I figured it was time.  Turns out it is a good thingI went.  I have what is called narrow angle glaucoma.  Go here to see what that actually is.  Basically, the plumbing in my eye doesn't work right, so my eyeball fluid has no where to go.  The scary part is glaucoma has no symptoms until you've lost vision, and I'm not talking about blurry vision, I'm talking about giant black shadows in the middle of your vision.  You are probably saying..."Isn't she too young for glaucoma?"  I think so too, but that's not the point.  Luckily this condition is treatable without too much trouble.  I will not be spending my life with daily eye drops, etc like my grandmother.  No, thanks to technology, I have had the pleasure of a laser iridotomy.  In a nut shell, this procedure zap-zap-zaps an extra hole in the iris so that the fluid in the eye has another avenue through which to drain.  The website, makes it seem easy and mostly painless.  The website if full of crap.  I was pretty uncomfortable for the duration of the day, had a splitting headache, and my vision was jacked up enough that I couldn't read or watch TV without more pain during the 3hr process of drops, wait, drops, wait, zap, wait, drops, wait, wait, wait, go home.   And I get to do it again in two weeks for the left eye.  Joy.