My cyclops journey...

Last week I finally went in for my first eye appointment in over 14 years. I have always known I had one bad eye. It was diagnosed at 12, much too late for any real therapy to do any difference, although they gave me the patch as well as some glasses that made my one eye look huge. I of course got made fun of and stupidly stopped wearing the glasses. Years later when doing all my testing to get into the NAVY they sent me all the way across town in Oklahoma City to have it looked at. They made such a big deal about it I swore they didn't want me in. But alas I still got in. Amusingly enough when in bootcamp I tricked my way through the eye test to prevent from having to get the "birth control" glasses. I stood in front of a petty officer with that spoon thing in hand and he had me read the whole chart and then told me to switch eyes and do it again. His mistake was that he had his head down, so instead of switching eyes, I did a double switch. Basically I tested my right eye twice, which is perfect. I was one of 8 out of 88 girls in my unit that didn't have to get the "birth control" glasses. I was pretty pleased with myself. Now 14 years later I finally agreed to go back to the Doctor to have my eye health tested. Steven swears up and down everyone still needs to do that. So lo and behold I go and get it tested and nothing surprising my right eye is nearly perfect and polished and left eye is bad, but not near as bad as I thought it was. He says at the end of this year with correction that eye could be 20/40. I'll take that. So they prescribed me ONE contact. It is alright but I swear it is messing with my good eye. I did a painting last night and by the end of it, neither of my eyes could focus at all. Hopefully my eyes get used to it. I need to get some glasses on days I don't feel the need to wear the contact. My two oldest boys also had an appt. on the same day and now Ryker is getting glasses. His is not so bad, mostly needed for reading. Gage's are bad and have always been so. Kieran's is a little worse that Ryker's. Steven is blessed with good vision. How is it all of the older kids then have glasses? Thank goodness for decent eye insurance for the family.

On a side note, 2 weeks from today is our open house for the Cardinal Care Center. I am freaking. The walls are being painted this week and the floors are to be done next week. I still need a desk. I have been looking for a small wooden one, but I can't find one that suits me. I also need decoration stuff. I started painting some canvas' that match some fabric I got to make some pillows for the couch. Here is the first one.

I really need to decompress. It all seems to be happening super fast. I was really hoping I would be done with my Vista stuff by then, but right now I will still have to do all three for another month. My head is spinning. I keep repeating to myself that "I can do it, it's going to happen regardless if I am ready or not". Sigh...