"I'm sure they were fashionable when you got them"

I had an appointment at the optitians yesterday, the result of long winded series of events that began with a really bad pain in my eye on Saturday at the Lemur Day. The pain went away for a bit on Sunday but then on Monday it was back with a vengence. It made me want to cry but I muddled through. Then on Tuesday it was still there and I started to get a bit annoyed with it and a bit concered about the cause of it so I told my boss I was off to the opticians as there was no way I could work in such pain. Anyway, the first opticians told me they had no appointments and that was that. So I went to Specsavers (God bless em) and they too informed me that there was no appointments but that my best bet would be to make an appointment for later and go to the walk in centre as they often refer cases of pain to there for a doctors opinion. So I decided to make the opticians appointment for the Friday (yesterday) as it was my day off.

So it was off to the Walk-In centre for me. When I got there, clutching me eye I had to sit and wait to see the nurse. She did a sight test and asked me some questions and...that was it!! She said that I needed to go to the eye clinic and promptly made me an appointment for 3pm that day. Well, I was sure work would not be pleased at the prospect of me buggering off twice in one day but by now it was hurting that much I didn't really care and said thank you to the nurse and went back to work to give them the good news.

I had 4 hours until my appointment and work was really hard since I had to try to smile at customers and not look like some bizarre pirate. Somehow I managed to get through the day and walk back to the hospital to see the eye doctor. He had a look at my eye and gave me some rather excellent anesthetic drops that made it feel very strange when I blinked. It was then that he informed me that what I actually had was a very healthy eye with a migraine in it!!?
I really didn't know you could get migraine JUST in your eye but apparently you can. It finally wore off on Wednesday afternoon.

This brings us back to yesterday when I had my appointment for the opticians. I'd not had a sight test for 3 years so I was overdue and decided to keep the appointment. It's all gone very high tech in there, you have your eye exam in a room the size of a cupboard using gizmos and gadgets. Very cool.

The examination concluded that my sight has deteriorated ever so slightly over 3 years. Not enough to be a concern but enough for them to say I need new glasses. (Of course). At first I was a bit annoyed because nobody likes forking out loads of money of course but after I started trying on a few pairs I realised how much I dislike my existing pair now. The lady helping me choose new pairs said

"I'm sure they were fashionable when you got them 3 years ago but... "

and then she trailed off. Hmmm

So now I have to wait 7 working days bah!!! I'll be going along to collect them on Friday next week (two pairs, one normal one prescription sun glasses).

I hate waiting for stuff. I'm the most impatient person imaginable when it comes to waiting for stuff but on this occasion I have no choice.

Have a good Saturday everyone. I'm off to work.