he’s a half-blinker

just a quick update for those who care about my crazy eye issues…

i went back for my followup appt. for my contacts. if you’re just joining us, previously i had talked about my keratoconus and that i will be wearing contacts for forever (or until it’s down to eye surgery or nothing) to counter the pointy-ness of my eyeballs.

fast-forward >> i went in for my followup. my left eye had been bothering me when i was wearing the contacts, but overall, my vision seems better when i’m wearing them (read: when i can stand to wear them). i tell the doc that it’s been bothering me so we do another exam for the prescription and tweak it a bit and try a different style lens, which feels better. but it’s as i’m wearing this and he’s staring at my eyeball through the crazy contraption thingie and he says to the student who’s in the room observing “oh, he’s a half-blinker.”

……wtf?

“i’m a half-blinker, eh?” i say, amused. apparently part of my problem is that i am a half-blinker. he tells me a lot of new contact wearers will blink halfway thinking (probably subconsiously that it will hurt/bother them less and apparently i’m one of these people. the fact that there’s a term for this, and that that term is “half-blinker” still strikes me as incredibly odd. but it explains a lot about why my eyes have felt like they dry out really fast and why the eyedrops only help temporarily.

the good news is that my right eye is 20/20 again with the contact with not much distortion

so i’m getting one new lens with a (hopefully) better prescription.

also, this is a reminder that TOMORROW IS DOWNLOAD DAY! so get your download fingers ready and go to http://spreadfirefox.com.


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6 responses to “he’s a half-blinker”

  1. Tara Avatar
    Tara

    ok first, the term is funny. The story behind the term is funny as well. At least I was amused…

    As for Download Day. I was ALLLLL excited to download the newest version of FF. I get the email and go to the site, it crashes a few times but I keep trying. I finally get there and…..its the version I already have :blink:

  2. jazzs3quence Avatar

    yeah, the site was down for about an hour or two after the download day officially started and then the getfirefox download link only had 2.0.0.14 up. but they fixed that about an hour or two ago.

  3. Mom Avatar
    Mom

    This is the first time I have ever known you to do anything only half-way!!! ;-)

  4. Tara Avatar
    Tara

    ok first, the term is funny. The story behind the term is funny as well. At least I was amused…

    As for Download Day. I was ALLLLL excited to download the newest version of FF. I get the email and go to the site, it crashes a few times but I keep trying. I finally get there and…..its the version I already have :blink:

  5. jazzs3quence Avatar

    yeah, the site was down for about an hour or two after the download day officially started and then the getfirefox download link only had 2.0.0.14 up. but they fixed that about an hour or two ago.

  6. Mom Avatar
    Mom

    This is the first time I have ever known you to do anything only half-way!!! ;-)

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