I might be saying things too soon, and I doubt anyone is going to care, but I am finally, finally going to be able to see soon. A bit of a story.
For years and years, I have had piss poor vision, I wear thick coke-can glasses, I can't see text past a foot in front of my face. I'm in every way except in name blind. It's incredibly shitty. For the technically knowing, I wear -19 glasses. Friday I went into a new eye doctor for the first time in 5 years because my eyes had finally gotten to a point where I could not read -anything- past a foot. I sat down and told my new doctor I needed a new Rx, because my current one had likely changed. Or so I thought.
At first, his diagnosis was dire. -19's are the strongest glasses made, or close to it. He had me do the vision test and I could only see the gigangic black E, nothing else. Apparently, this made him curious, and he stopped the exam to ask me some questions. How long had it been like this, etc. I explained essentially my view of the world. Double vision in one eye, shadows are difficult to perceive. He decided to run a full exam, see if anything was missing. There certainly fucking was.
When he got in there, tested my eye pressure, looked at the inside of my eye while dilated, he was legitimately, god honest startled. He stopped multiple times to say 'Wow.' during the exam, or other incredulous things. Describing it the whole time to me that he had sincerely never seen anything like it. He focused on my lenses, and found that my left lense is nearly completely dislocated, likely has been MY ENTIRE LIFE, and my right one is apparently so cloudy he has no idea how I can see a thing.
We talked a bit, and he was really honest with me- I am apparently a just fascinating case. Some key quotes "There are some cases that doctors will take on out of pure fascination, and the want to learn." "Am I one of those?" "Yes." As well, he flat out told me that my eyes are the kind of thing you could write a paper about, put in a medical journal and help advance the industry. But there was also something interesting to note.
It's totally fucking fixable and has been for years.
At the end of the appointment, he sent me home without anything but a promise; That he was going to specially contact a locally famous doctor who specializes in eye surgery and cataracts, and the three of us re going to get in touch as soon as possible, probably expiditing the the process quite a bit. I need cataract surgery- A surgery where they make a tiny incision in the eye, destroy your lenses and replace them with new, clear ones. It takes an hour, is an outpatient surgery and is covered by medicaid. When we're done? I'll likely only need glasses for specific things, and I won't always need to wear them.
tl;dr I'm getting fucking eye surgery to repair 20 years of what should have been fixed ten ago. It's going to be fucking amazing.
