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January 24, 2002
Shards of plastic in my eyes
Toward the end of last year, I had to spend $240 in accrued FSA (Federal Spending Account, I think) funds. The general schtick about this FSA stuff is that it's deducted from your pay pre-tax, but if you don't use it by the end of the calendar year, you lose the money. Since I'd already paid out the $240, I didn't want to lose the money. I used the money for an eye exam and put the rest toward a pair of contact lenses. The initial contact lens fitting was on 29 December 2001.
It is now 24 January 2002 and I've had two more appointments to fit the lenses. The first was last week, when the lenses came in, since they had to be special ordered. I had a follow-up exam today and the lenses still don't fit right. I've got a pretty high degree of myopia as it is, exacerbated by astigmatism. They gave me some 8/10 or 8/5 lenses before and they're going to try 8/3 next for a closer fit to my eye in the hopes that it will keep the lenses from moving around. The prescription for my right eye seems fuzzy, too. Another thing I've noticed is that light seems a lot brighter in general when I wear the lenses.
Four appointments, at least five, maybe six before we can say that the lenses are good to go. Y'know what? I don't mind. The optometrist is really cute.
...and if she reads this blog, I'm going to die.
Posted by KinCross at January 24, 2002 08:52 PM