I am not a candidate....

for president!

LOL, I mean... "for lasik eye surgery."

Dang!

I went to Joffe MediCenter today for their free consultation on lasik surgery, hoping to get it done around mid-August, after the wedding in case they screwed up and blinded me at least I'd get to see one kid get married, (Bri had to schedule her surgery like 4 weeks out). While I was talking to the first guy doing the testing, he asked me how soon I wanted to have it done. I said "mid-August, why?" He said "well, the soonest we could do it is....today or tomorrow!" Ha. Must be a slow time right now.

Anyway, after he did all the testing, he told me to go talk w/the doctor before viewing their video, because he was seeing some results that were "quite large." LOL, ok, at least I know he's not lookin' at my ass to get that measurement any more!

So the doc comes in (NOT Dr. Whiting, the doc on the commercials - it was an associate) and explains to me that on one eye the cornea is larger on the bottom, and although they could do lasik, he does not recommend it because it would put me at a higher risk for a more serious problem down the road, like my cornea becoming too thin and having no vision! He said, "if it were my family member, I'd tell them NOT to do it!"

Ok then. I thanked him for being honest, and was actually surprised by the honesty! It wasn't a crushing blow, actually when the first guy was doing the testing he said "you know, you'll need reading glasses after lasik anyway" and I though to myself "hmm, so I'd really be trading one problem for another...is this worth it?"

So by then my eyeballs were widely dialated, thank you very much, but I drove anyway, just took the side streets through the cities until I felt comfortable getting back on the freeway. I had taken my old Nikon cameras along cause I've been wanting to stop at National Camera Exchange and sell/trade 'em in on a new digital SLR version, so that was my plan. I decided to stop at Trader Joe's first, picked up a few things but nothing refrigerated cause it was dang hot out (darn). Then stopped at NCE and sold one camera (other had problems according to them, whatever) and got myself a new super cool camera. Yay!

Stopped at Panera Bread for lunch, and was thinking "hmm, the Queen and I should go to Panera and SHARE the You-Pick-Two, and we could each get like 1/2 a sandwich or salad or s0up and that would be enough." I got the strawberry/chicken/poppyseed salad and some sandwich, ate the chicken and fruit out of the salad and part of the sandwich. Such a waste, but that's the way it goes.

Stopped at Walmart for a very short list of things and came home. Doug and Dave are almost finished with screening in the back deck, it's gorgeous. They do good work. : )

So now it's 8:00, having a little blog juice and relaxing. I wish we woulda turned on the AC today though, cause it's dang HOT.

Summer....love/hate it.