Be Seeing You...
Aug. 29th, 2003 06:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbandruidWell, it's not glaucoma.
It's something a lot weirder.
Everybody has what they call a lens capsul in their eye- a little membrane bag or "plate rack" as I called it, where the lens goes. When I had my lens implant, the surgeon used part of that plate rack to anchor the lens in place. But the part that didn't get used has decided to go for a walk. So what I'm seeing is a skin and tissue membrane that isn't where it's supposed to be. And if you've ever looked at say a peice of dead skin, you know your skin's sort of but not really transparent. It lets light through, but you wouldn't want to have to look through it.
Why does all the really weird shit have to happen to me?
Anyway. I'm cutting class this morning, going back to see my surgeon, and he's taking me to see another doc in the building, the retina guy. I'm told the retina guy is cute, which amused me. If it were any other situation this would be almost cool- I get to visit the one floor of the building I've never been to, see a cute doctor- and for all the docs I've seen, I haven't seen a seriously good-looking one in a long time... But right now I don't care. This just sucks a little too much.
What it boils down to is that this might go away on its own, but I don't know how long it would take if it were going to do that, and as annoying as this is, I don't know that I can wait for it to do that.
Which means someone's going to have to go in and take it out. Surgically. And even more than I don't want another procedure, I sure as hell don't want another surgery. But I can't go on like this. I'm not real awake, but I think it's worse today than it was yesterday.
I can only miss two Algebra classes in the first three weeks, and if I miss a second she'll drop me. Today will count as one, unless the note I'm leaving her with my homework convinces her to take pity on me. And after that it's five absences by the drop deadline- on the fifth she'll drop me. I'm scared of falling behind in math, scared of fucking up my educaton because of my eyes, but what choice do I have?
The entry title is a horrible pun, but it's also the name of my new mostly-finished Alfred Bester Fanlisting. That would be Babylon 5's Bester, not the sci-fi author. Though he's cool too. Anyway, I forgot to run the image map through the imagemapper program, so ignore it and use the links. Sorry. Will fix it later, when I can get around to it.
It's something a lot weirder.
Everybody has what they call a lens capsul in their eye- a little membrane bag or "plate rack" as I called it, where the lens goes. When I had my lens implant, the surgeon used part of that plate rack to anchor the lens in place. But the part that didn't get used has decided to go for a walk. So what I'm seeing is a skin and tissue membrane that isn't where it's supposed to be. And if you've ever looked at say a peice of dead skin, you know your skin's sort of but not really transparent. It lets light through, but you wouldn't want to have to look through it.
Why does all the really weird shit have to happen to me?
Anyway. I'm cutting class this morning, going back to see my surgeon, and he's taking me to see another doc in the building, the retina guy. I'm told the retina guy is cute, which amused me. If it were any other situation this would be almost cool- I get to visit the one floor of the building I've never been to, see a cute doctor- and for all the docs I've seen, I haven't seen a seriously good-looking one in a long time... But right now I don't care. This just sucks a little too much.
What it boils down to is that this might go away on its own, but I don't know how long it would take if it were going to do that, and as annoying as this is, I don't know that I can wait for it to do that.
Which means someone's going to have to go in and take it out. Surgically. And even more than I don't want another procedure, I sure as hell don't want another surgery. But I can't go on like this. I'm not real awake, but I think it's worse today than it was yesterday.
I can only miss two Algebra classes in the first three weeks, and if I miss a second she'll drop me. Today will count as one, unless the note I'm leaving her with my homework convinces her to take pity on me. And after that it's five absences by the drop deadline- on the fifth she'll drop me. I'm scared of falling behind in math, scared of fucking up my educaton because of my eyes, but what choice do I have?
The entry title is a horrible pun, but it's also the name of my new mostly-finished Alfred Bester Fanlisting. That would be Babylon 5's Bester, not the sci-fi author. Though he's cool too. Anyway, I forgot to run the image map through the imagemapper program, so ignore it and use the links. Sorry. Will fix it later, when I can get around to it.
