ZOMG! Technology is my friend

BLUF: They finally make contacts for people with whacky astigmatisms like me, I got fitted on Friday, and I feel like I have a whole new lease on life! I probably haven't been able to see this well since I was a teenager, certainly not at a distance.

The background information is important. Since the time I was knee high to a grasshopper my eyes have been glued to a computer screen. By the time I was a teenager in the mid-late eighties I was spending 8 hours a day staring at a computer screen. My professional life meant I was staring at a screen for 8-20 hours a day, with the worse peak in the mid nineties where I had no less than 8 21" CRT monitors focused on my eyeballs.

By 2001 the non-stop screen staring had really taken it's toll on my eyes and I finally gave in in 2002 and had an eye exam. The optometrist didn't even blink, he just looked at me and asked "how do you drive at night?". I bluffed and ordered glasses. I grew up watching my mom's headaches with contacts, which probably didn't help with my aversion to putting things in my eye. My sight is a big part of my livelyhood, and the thought of doing anything that might endanger my eyes just terrifies me.

During our Yuma trip I tried to get new prescription glasses made, a project that ended in epic fail, yet another recent project of epic fail. The one good thing that came out of the visit was me noticing that they now have disposable soft contacts for astigmatism. Being that I have this whacked out horizontal astigmatism, this was very good news. After the trip I decided I would explore the contacts option.

ZOMG! If only I would have known how much better my vision could be with contacts instead of glasses, I never would have hesitated. I now have distance vision I never could have imagined. I'm still figuring out the whole "stick your finger in your eye", but I'm getting better every day and loving every minute.

Technology, it's a magical thing!