Eye yai yai!

This morning I had my eye appointment to check the prescription which I was so sure was faulty. (RECAP: Last week the glasses-lady fixed the frames so my eyes weren't straining as badly, but my right eye has still been blurry. UPDATE: My eyes have felt very dry and irritated lately. I haven't been able to wear my contacts for more than a day without getting little patches of redness on my eyes, especially the right one. That's important for later.)

Well my doctor thought it was pretty strange that I was sitting there in his office asking for a new prescription when I just got a new one not even three months ago. But I was sure he had just done something wrong and written down the wrong numbers or something. He began to look at my eyes and do the whole "Is this clearer? How about this? 1 or 2? 2 or 3? 3 or 1?" thing, 'yknow, till you're so completely confused about what is clear and what isn't you just want your old glasses back? Well, NOTHING helped my right eye. He kept strengthening it and changing it and nothing was getting any clearer. Plus I told him that my right eye has been blurry looking at things up-close too, which has never happened before. 

So he sent me back out to the wheel-of-misfortune to run every eye test known to man, including the hot air balloon stare-down and the surprise-puff-of-air-torture device...and even some new toys I've never had the privilege of playing with, one of which required numbing drops for my eyes which freaked me out a bit.  He also dilated my eyes, which I've never had done before. I never knew my pupils could get that big. They reminded me of cartoon eyes or something...pretty weird. 

One of the tests (I believe it was the space-age-Twilight-zone thingy) showed that while three months ago I didn't have astigmatism, now I'm at a three. I don't really know what that means, but apparently rapid progression up the astigmatism scale is unusual. Oh and not good, definitely a bad thing. BUT, the test that required numbing drops showed that I have good corneal thickness, which means I have generally healthy eyes. Yay me!

After all this he decided that I have one of two things:

I could have Keratoconus (Yes, I had to look that word up in an online dictionary of eye disorders to know how to spell it.) This would stink big time, most likely leading to a corneal transplant at some point down the road. STINK BIG TIME. Bad bad bad.

But I could also have something else called (and since I haven't been able to find the name of it anywhere on the internet I'm guessing it's spelled like this) Tyginson disease. It's a hormonal condition found in women in their mid-20's (that's me!).  It's almost a viral condition that effects the eye making it more sensitive (explaining why I haven't been able to wear my contacts comfortably for a while now), dry and irritated. The irritation then leads to swelling of the lens area of the eye, I guess, and that causes blurred vision. I explained to him that my eye seems to get more blurry as the day goes on, and that seemed to confirm his decision. 

He's going to treat me for Tyginson's for a month and then check my eye again. If things have progressed in the wrong direction, we'll have to take another look at me having that other thing that I don't wanna spell again. But for now I'm praying with all my might that this will help. He prescribed some very fancy eye drops and I'm not supposed to wear my contacts AT ALL for the next month. Good thing I bought these hotty totty glasses, that's all I'm sayin'.  

I'm also really praying that maybe these drops will help enough (and quickly enough) that I can enjoy New York City. I don't wanna be squinting all the way through Phantom of the Opera, y'know? (Guess it's good I found us such great seats though, huh? *SQUEAL*)

Anyways, keep me in your prayers. I'm trying to stay positive about this. Check back on my positive attitude in a week if these drops haven't worked, though. *haha*

Blindness, Broadway and Low-cal Cuppycakes

I picked up my new glasses from Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon and while I think they're absolutely PERFECT (seriously cute, classy and a teensy bit retro - they're FAB!), I can't see worth a darn. I walked around Wal-Mart for a few minutes before I went back to the lady in the Vision Center. I asked her to double check the prescription to make sure they'd copied it down right and that the glasses matched too. Everything was correct, except my vision! Things aren't blurry, but I feel a little like I'm wearing 3-D goggles...as if I'm seeing in layers. It's hard to explain, but I feel like my eyes are straining really bad too. The woman said that my eyes are probably just adjusting, but if I'm not seeing better by Monday I'm calling my optometrist. Meanwhile I've got a constant headache.

My vision has unfortunately affected my plans for the weekend. Last night I went to a crop with Jenny at her church and managed to get a layout done but it wasn't easy. Then today I was supposed to crop with Mary and I just couldn't. I went and gabbed for a couple of hours, which was fun, but didn't bother with my scrap crap. My head is just hurting too much.

Yesterday I did make some AMAZING cupcakes for the crop night with Jenny. "Cupcakes?" you ask. "But Sarah, I thought you were on a diet!" Well I am! The cupcake recipe came from my Hungry Girl cookbook. They were chocolatey and fluffy and DELICIOUS! I was amazed at how wonderful they turned out because:

a. I baked them.

and b. They only have 108 calories each! 

Yes you read right! Too good to be true, but why would I lie about something like that? *haha* They're so yummy that even the "non-dieters" at the crop gobbled them up. Some even had two! In place of frosting, which is a high-calorie item, I put a blop of marshmallow cream on top of each cupcake. (That was a struggle. Marshmallow cream is NOT easy to work with, especially on the top of a moist cupcake.) Anywho, I'm looking forward to trying some other recipes after discovering how great these were. 

Jeremy and I went to Old Navy last night to look at coats since they're all 50% off right now. I tried on every coat in the store and couldn't find one I liked. A lot of the ones they've got right now have really high necks and I felt like I was choking. Jeremy had more luck than I did, he found this coat and it fit him to a T. 

I'm totally psyched about it. He looks really cute in it...and it's not something he would typically go for. I think he'll look purdy hot with this over a sweater walking around New York City.  (Jeremy? In a sweater AND a coat? He would be literally HOT! *hahaha*)

Speaking of New York....only 23 days left! (Which you already knew, thanks to that handy dandy counter I added to my page recently.)  The other day our Phantom of the Opera tickets came in the mail and I just about wet my pants! I was waving them in the air, dancing around the kitchen, acting like a total goofball. Jeremy looked a little panicked...like, "If this is what she does when she sees the tickets, what will she do when we get to the theater?" Scary. *haha* If I could have my way, we would be doing Broadway every single night we were there. Wicked, Mary Poppins, White Christmas, Chicago, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Mama Mia....oh and don't forget the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Oh wait, that's more nights than we're even going to be there, isn't it? Well dang. ;) 

This week Jeremy and I are going to sit down and make up a day-by-day itinerary. This goes against much of our usual travel philosophy. We're big on "winging it," usually making a loose plan but leaving lot's of room for spontaneity. As I've been gathering info for NYC, however, I've realized that there is just far too much to do for us to wing it. We need to make a plan of attack, separating things by "boroughs" so we can be as efficient as possible. It's so overwhelming! The only things that are set in stone so far are:

Wednesday night: Lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

Thursday night: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! *squeal*

Friday night: Museum of Modern Art (which has free admission on Friday nights)

 

Then I have a monstrous list of restaurants, shops and landmarks I want to hit. I don't think there's any possible way for us to do everything...guess I should just be grateful we'll be there at all! :)