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I Should�ve Taken That Left Turn at Albuquerque |
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2002-11-04 - 10:22 p.m.� My mother went to the eye doctor's today to see about getting her glasses perscription renewed. She was about 3 years overdue for her checkup, and in the past few months had really started to notice that her current glasses weren't quite up to snuff. "Not quite up to snuff" ended up being a pretty fucking big understatement. After the eye doctor checked her vision, he asked her if she had a driver's license. She does not, which made the eye doctor breathe a sigh of relief. Evidently, even with the strongest lenses he could prescribe her, she still would not be able to see well enough to be legally allowed to drive a car. He doesn't know what is wrong with her eyes to cause this great of a decline, in what appears to be such a short time. Her vision has always sucked, but up until recently she was getting along well enough with her regular glasses and a pair of reading glasses. The good news is that she doesn't have any other medical symptoms/conditions/etc that would cause blindness. the bad news is the eye doctor didn't know what the hell is causing her problems. She has slight cataracts in both eyes, but not enough to explain her seriously compromised vision. We're all hoping that maybe this is something with an easy explanation, like that it's a side effect of her new asthma medication. The decline seems to coincide with her new prescriptions, and her eye doctor did see that as a possibility (although he didn't seem to be taking it as a strong possibility). She has to go see a specialist, as soon as one can fit her in. Until then all we can do is wait and worry. And I am worried. A lot. I'm scared for my mom. I'm also scared for purely selfish reasons of my own which I am pretty ashamed of at a time like this, but can't help feeling. I just want to curl up under my covers and not come out for the next several days. Sometimes I feel like my family gives new meaning to the phrase "If it's not one thing, it's another."
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