No post yesterday

due to internet troubles.  It seems to be working normally again, so today will be a two post day to catch up.   (I'm determined to post daily in September.)

Yesterday was busy.  It was finally eye doctor day. I had an 8 a.m. appointment at the world's most annoying eye clinic that happens to be named after a state in which I happen to reside.   I have a love-hate relationship with the place, but mostly hate.  I go there because when I went to the eye doctor for a routine contact lens update after my brain thang, the eye doctor screamed like a girl in a horror movie and sent me to specialists mostly at this famous clinic, who looked at the scarring and retina wrinkle, shrugged and said "No biggie."  But they have the test results, etc., in my file, so it's just easier to keep going there than start over with a different doctor.

The doctors and techs at this eye clinic are great. The staff...not so much.  I deliberately chose to be one of the first appointments of the day in the hope that it would get me in and out faster, and I still waited half an hour.  They have the most bizarre, antiquated check-in process ever.  You enter on the first floor, sign in on a piece of paper on the counter, then cool your heels until one of the (also antiquated) ladies behind the desk looks at that piece of paper and calls you to the counter. They then direct you to a different counter to sign a different sign-in sheet if you are there for an eye exam, or, if you are there to see a specialist, you are sent out of the building to the elevator, which is on the outside of the building, and up to the second floor, where...yes, you start all over.  I saw one poor lady wait for half an hour only to be told that it was time to go upstairs and sign in up there.

The technicians and the doctor were great, though, and I ordered new progressive lenses.  I didn't get new contacts, because the staff screwed up my appointment and the doctor who does RGP lenses is only there one day a week now, and this was not that day.   ARRGH.  WTF?  Oh, and when I saw that other eye doctor in Asheville last year, she had a nifty retina-mapping machine that eliminates the need to dilate your eyes.  When this doctor came at me with the drops I resisted, and she relented - sorry, but I had a full day of work ahead and couldn't be blind for hours!  I asked about the machine and she said, "Yeah,  those are nice. We don't have one." 

My vision is fine, the retina wrinkle isn't doing anything new, I think my new glasses will be good, and now that we are 5 years past brain thang, I think I'm going to find a new eye doctor's office. As big, busy, and famous as it is, that place is stuck in 1972.