So I go to the Optometrist, a new guy as my old guy retired to golf and leisure. We do all the tests and I opt for the laser scan for $30 as opposed to the drops where I literally pass out from . . something. It seems the one panic button my physical body has are those blasted drops.
Once I start to lose focus my brain just spins and I THINK my blood sugar drops . . . but I'm getting off subject.
And there is a secret reason I expose my inner demons . . if I'm in a crowd and just pass out SOMEBODY might say " HEY, I READ HIS BLOG , get him some 7-up." BAM!
So here is the inside of my eye. HIPPA will not appreciate this I'm sure LOL Actually my right eye 3 years apart. Left image is my current right eye and the right image is legacy right eye 3 years ago. More hair this year it seems.
Actually (off topic again) those dots bottom right are floaters. Only my right eye.
ANYWAY - I needed contacts and the new Doc suggested, because if my AGE, everybody gets Presbyopia* (farsightedness caused by loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye, occurring typically in middle and old age.) at some point.
so if you have contacts you also need reading glasses for close up things
WELL - there is a thing called multifocal lenses that I have a trial set and WOW. I see GREAT close up AND at the moment "pretty good" far. Not bi-focals but seamless contacts. Light is refracted in different ways so each lens can have multiple prescription.
And it seems to work. I need to go back in a week so they can tweak it, ask me if and where I need better focus. Everything I read says it takes, give or take, 3 days for you brain to figure it out. Reviews are good and some Facebook friends say LOVE LOVE LOVE them.
Heck I'm saving $60 a year on cheap reading glasses. I sort of wish I was wearing them in now, with my glasses I have to look up a little. With those earlier today it was just perfect.
And that is my story. Next time you have an eye appointment ask about multifocal lenses.
The odd thing is this is the third exam in a row where my eyes actually got better. Zero issues with glaucoma which is not a surprise . . .for many reasons.
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Seems cell phones have had a positive impact with homicides between 1990 and 2000 when cell phones became a "thing" according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Teh research showed about a 25% drop in drug related homicides.
Turf-base drug gangs did not have to meet face to face and could use cell photos for drug related business. In a related story SADLY the gene pool was not being purged of these druggers.
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Speaking of drugs - two studies by JAMA states that 93% of the VERY expensive cancer drugs that were fast tracked to the market only 19% showed any real improvement in a person health.
Americans are paying billions in drugs that do not really do anything.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said that her personal struggles with alcohol factored into her decision to veto a bill to expand the state's limited CBD medical cannabis program.
WHAT? something that is proven to lower alcohol abuse in many many studies and she takes the opposite non-scientific view? How do these idiots get elected.
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I started to read a book called "Across america and Back: retracing My Great-Grandparents Remarkable Journey". It's about a woman on a bike that found her great grandparents journal of a train trip across America in 1871.
They arrived in Chicago 8 days after the Chicago fire. They hotel is burned down. What got me was some of the story's by reporters during the fire. One little girl was running with her hair on fire and people trying to put her out were throwing anything liquid on her. Water was not available so they were using . . . whisky which flared up.
another person had her cloak on fire and was kneeling with a cross and then she was run over by a runaway truck. Just horrific stuff and I'm glad there were only a couple paragraphs.
ODDLY all that wood that was on fire in Chicago was wood that was chopped down from the Peshtigo Forest, which was also on fire in the Great Peshtigo fire at that very same time.
The lumberman that owned most of Peshtigo Forest was also the main builder of many of the buildings in Chicago.
Using the common thread of the train journey this woman is weaving the two stories together. Her bike ride across America and their journey across America. The Trans-Continental Railroad was just completed 2 years earlier and instead of a 2 month journey it's only a few weeks.
Nuff for today
GREAT WEATHER COMING - great weekend - Sunday might be wet but warm. Next week is also looking GREAT!
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