Hope Darby Writings

I love that magazines send gratis copies when you have an article writen in a particular issue. Today, I received 6 copies from American Fitness magazine, with my article, “The Top 10 Least Effective Exercises . . . and Their Better Alternatives” spanning pages 14 & 15. Yay!  It’s such validation to see your words in print, you know?

NaNo is going fairly well, despite the atrociously slow site. I finally got to log my word count, which was 9750 this morning. I haven’t gotten a huge amount done today, unfortunately. My peepers are bothering me so much, it’s nigh impossible to focus on writing. Ack! Didn’t mean that to be such a pun! Peepers, focus, blah blah blah.

Speaking of peepers…I went for a LASIK consultation with my ophthalmologist last Friday, and was told that I’m not a good candidate. I have chronic dry eye (whch is why I’m having so much trouble right now), and one of the major side effects of LASIK is dry eye. So if a person does not have it before they get the LASIK done and winds up with it afterward, it doesn’t bear imagining how bad it would be for me.

She did, however, tell me that I was a good candidate for clear-lens replacement surgery, which is essentially cataract surgery without there being a cataract. It’s invasive, but not ridiclously so: they make an incision in the white of the eye, go behind the iris, break up the lens, and replace it with an implant. The lens and implant are about the size of an M&M.  I’d most likely have to wear reading glasses, because the surgery causes you to lose close-up focusing ability. The only way around that is to have a micro-focus lens implant, rather than just a regular one. Unfortunately, with as bad as my eyes are, they are most likely too elongated to be able to handle a micro-focus.

But hey, I’ll take it. I don’t mind wearng glasses for reading and writing, if it means that my vision is darn next to 20/20 the rest of the time. Right now, I wear a -11 contact lens, and have been in strong specs/contacts since age 5 and 10, respectively. It won’t cure the dry eye, but at least it’ll help me be able to *see*, even when running dry.

Ramble ramble ramble. I do believe this is what they call procrastination =D