Eye Talk

I had my eyes checked up last saturday at the Dela Paz Eye Clinic at the Dela Fuenta St. near UST (as if you need those facts) due to frequent dizziness imparted by my blurry vision. This annoys me since grade school though and it was just lately that I had told my mother about it. The check-up cost me (I mean, my Mama) half a thousand - too expensive, isn't it? Uncle accompanied me but his was of more pressing problems (the opthalmologist told him that he would be a candidate for corneal transplant next year, wow).

Lets get into the results. The old man said I have a mild stage of astigmatism though not mild as to neglect it. He had my eyes looking into a telescopic machine (as you see in eye books or whatever) where I heard weird sounds in tune of alchemy (if you can imagine). The image consisted of an asterisk in green background turning blurry at certain plucks of alchemy (again, if you can imagine the sound - hard to describe). After that, he had me the usual eye test - the chart with huge letters at the top then smaller and smaller as it gets down. I said clearly read the first three levels only. And the excite happened.

I wish I could find a replica of the spectacles he told me to wear. It was white, thick-rimmed and had screws all over. He adjusted the knob right at my forehead so it would stick snugly with my head. Then, he covered my left eye with a cardboard he placed at a shelf on the left spectacle and had the right placed with a lens. He had a collection of those seated next to him - more than a hundred (cool!). He would ask me if the letters turned clearer and I would respond. The process went on until he put on me the fourth lens on the fourth shelf. The same way went for the other eye. Then, he had me glared at a mirror beside him. CUTE! I looked like a geek! I wish I should have brought my cousin's camera phone with me. COOL. I was giggling and he told me that almost everyone had the reaction like mine.

Next was boring. He scribbled on a piece of paper the lens I should wear and other miscellaneous that comes with it. He also strongly recommended that I should use it for constant use. FOR CONSTANT USE. I never thought my eye illness would be this bad that I had to wear it permanently. Argh! I thought I should only wear on reading, taking down notes, etc. I don't want to look geeky as to startle my friends.

Leo will undergo a change of image. Please avoid schock when seeing him bispectacled. Please? Though he wishes to extend the life of his unaided eye until next semester.

And I'll have hair fixed too! The summer clings at every strand - it's itchy!

And oh! Ma'am Molly gave me a 2.25 for Sport Climbing - a rather magical for me. A 15% for intraclass (darn! that was terrifying!), a 67% for project route, a failing standing in quizzes, less than 24 climbs and numerous absences. Isn't a 2.25 a surplus of surplus?