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Summer 2007 = Huge eye drama
This drama includes me, Dr. Hoang, Dr. Chung, Dr. Turner, and Dr. Wong. I knew turning down optometry for architecture would haunt me some day. In the past three months, I've visited four eye doctors (two optometrists and two opthamologists), gotten the eye pressure (eye puff) test more than four times, gotten my eye prescription twice, got new glasses lens, got my eyes dilated, and read a gazillion lines of different sizes full of random letters. When will the madness end!? It all started when I realized I was running out of contacts and thus had to update my prescription so I could order more (I realized this in May and STILL haven't ordered new contacts). I went to Kaiser to visit Dr. Hoang, but her prescription was kinda wack and confusing so I decided to go to Golden Milpitas Optometry with Dr. Chung. They gave me another eye prescription test (they didn't need to and tried to charge me for it, but my dad yelled at the lady and they refunded me) and started to refit me for new contacts. That, by the way, is taking forever (still in progress). Then I went to my regular opthamologist Dr. Turner (really, a man of few words... I always have to pry information from him). He told me my blood vessels are bigger and I need to limit my contact wear. He was silent most of the time and it was just me asking him questions and him giving me short terse answers in a meek voice. That is our patient-doctor relationship. I don't like it. He lead me to the front desk to schedule an appointment in six months and I asked him a last minute question (it always ends up like this... please refer to the blog entry in June 06), "So what does limit my contact wear mean?" He said, "Mm... around five hours." Later, I finally went in for my very last contact fitting appointment with Dr. Chung (or so I think). When everything was fine and dandy she asked, "So do you have any questions?" I then told her my situation with my past ocular herpes and what Dr. Turner said. She checked my eyes again and told me that Dr. Turner was over-exaggerating, that my eyes were fine, and I could wear my contacts for 8-10 hours. She finally gave me my contacts lens prescription so I could order my contacts. I left really confused. I called my mom and told her and she got mad at me and said that I just want to wear my contacts for longer. Well, of course, I do, but I want to know the truth! SO my mom scheduled me an appointment with an opthamologist at Kaiser named Dr. Wong. Today I saw Dr. Wong and he said I should be cautious, but my condition wasn't that serious. He's a lot more talkative and informative than Dr. Turner. However, he's a relatively young Asian man with spiked gelled hair and bleached tips. Well, I'm not saying that because I doubt his credibility, but it was interesting. He also recommended contact wear of 8-10 hours and told me that I should also switch my contact lens' brand to Purevision because they're more breathable. Now I'm scheduling another appointment with Golden Milpitas Optometry for another contact lens fitting for a different brand. Hopefully it won't take as long as last time. I hope all of this gets settled by the time school starts. |
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