if there's something i really wish i could replace in my genetic-makeup, it is to have a set of genes for perfect eye-sight... i am pretty blind... so blind that without my corrective lenses i'd probably should become an artist who paints bloches of colors merging into one another like a patchy version of Van Gogh...
my eyesight has gone worse since i entered the US... i blame it on the lack of natural light at the office (*think fraggle-rock*) and the more intense light-source in the outdoors here as compared to relatively more gloomy but charming Edinburgh... sob. sadly, i've recently noticed that i can't quite see properly and that really worries me... for i fear becoming blind...
given that i hate seeing doctors unless i really must, last week was perhaps the first time my health insurance ever did come in somewhat useful... an eye-examination at the university health clinic deemed that my sight power has increased about 0.5 diopters in both eyes... which is kind of bad since i have kept my pathetic eyesight in a relatively stable condition for the last five years... but getting new lenses can be a nightmare, because they can be rather pricey here (although they are far pricier in the UK! and worse on the continent!)... and having had my pair of frames for about a decade i kind of like to have a different pair... but i can't seem to find anything that suits me which isn't too different from my current pair! in addition, my eyeballs are not quite a perfect sphere... they are more like rugby-shaped eyes which makes getting contact lenses rather challenging too...
it would be nice, if i only had better genetic-makeup for perfect vision... and a pair of natural deep blue-turquoisey eyes... heee that would be so lovely... if not disturbingly unique for a southeast-asian! ha.
but really, it is truly a gift to be able to see... and i mean see in the very simple sense, be it blurry a perspective or sharp as an eagle's view... we rely so much on our eyes in our everyday life... i really hope i won't go blind with age... because there are many other age-related eye-problems... like macular-degeneration (a degenerative eye-disease that leads to the loss of focal vision), glaucoma (the progressive loss of peripheral and eventual full vision due to intra-ocular pressure damaging the optic nerve), cataract, etc... and my dear mummy is experiencing some form of visual degeneration which really scares me and fires my imagination silly... but the thought of losing ones vision is a scary thing... sigh.
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Saturday, 4 March, 2006 at 22:31 hrs
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