Eyes Wide Shut

My astigmatism has returned, it seems. After a couple of hours of staring at words my head would feel like I'm wearing a tiara. It would be fabulous, only this tiara is made up of 5 kilos of solid steel and has clamps that digs into my skull through my temples.

I found my old eyeglasses from 5 years ago, but it wasn't fitted anymore for astigmatism. I don't want to spend a lot on eyeglasses since after a while I will stop wearing them anyway. But if this goes on for another week I might be forced to. My eyes are now tearing up and I can't properly see, much less think when an oompa loompa is making a nice little fort inside my brain.

When I started wearing contacts some 14 years ago they still didn't have ones for astigmatism, so I still wore my glasses to treat it. But now, Acuvue has come up with disposable lenses specially for astigmatism. I'm still thinking if I can afford the contact lens (they are expensive) or just suffer the eyeglasses. I don't hate wearing glasses per se, but I tend to lose them. The pairs I have lost over the years were not cheap too.

I don't know. Maybe when I run out of Advil I will decide.