# Chateau de la Tobler

## Thursday, March 04, 2010

### Eye Doctor appointment

So Jeff and I had eye doctor appointments yesterday. Jeff had more than a bit of sticker shock over how much everything costs. We have insurance and still had to pay more than he'd expected. The exams didn't cost us that much. We have a $20 co-pay each. I had my eyes dilated, I wasn't driving, but we paid an extra $30 to have Jeff's eyes "mapped" instead of dilated and that wasn't covered by our insurance. It's a good thing we did. Neither of us have ever had that done before and it turns out that Jeff has a freckle on the inside of his eye. It's not something we necessarily need to worry about, but he does need to wear sunglasses every time he goes out into the sun and have it checked every year. It is grows, then we get to have a wonderful biopsy and ect in our future. I don't have anything like that, but my retina is stretched thinner than the doctor likes. He explained that it's simply a fact of life for people who have nearsightedness as bad as I do. He very carefully explained that I am at greater risk for a detached retina and he went over the symptoms so if something like that happens, I can get to him ASAP.
This time, I got myself some glasses with the magnetic sunglasses with them. I haven't gotten them before and am excited for them to get here. Jeff's prescription didn't change enough for him to need new glasses, so he went for prescription sunglasses. He will be more likely to wear them all the time. The other perk is that our insurance covers transition lenses free of charge. So we got them on mine as well. The only problem is that apparently the lenses don't work very well if the temperature is above 80 degrees. Since that basically describes 9 months of our year, it's a good thing I got the clips as well.
My prescription hasn't changed very much. I'm still at 650 in one eye and 700 in the other, but my astigmatism has gotten a bit worse. It doesn't make that much of a difference, but I didn't think I would bother much with changing my glasses out with prescription sunglasses. I would be much more likely to use the clip on's.
So that is my life just at the moment. It's been a LONG week.

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