I hate get\u00adting my eyes examined, which is why I only sub\u00admit to it every two years or so. Since part of the reas\u00adon I go is to make sure that any symp\u00adtoms of glauc\u00adoma or mac\u00adu\u00adlar degen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion are found, I get the full check-up, involving hor\u00adrible chem\u00adic\u00adals to dilate the pupils. These, of course, affect my vis\u00adion, so I can\u00ad\u2019t drive home after\u00adwards; for\u00adtu\u00adnately the walk is only about 25 minutes each way, so it\u2019s not too big a deal.<\/p>\n
As I was walk\u00ading home I real\u00adised I must have looked more than a little weird in my jeans and a non\u00addes\u00adcript winter coat, with a floppy sun\u00adhat pulled down around my face to min\u00adim\u00adize the light get\u00adting into my stressed eyes, des\u00adpite the cloud. Not that any\u00adone seemed to notice of course, this being Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hate get\u00adting my eyes examined, which is why I only sub\u00admit to it every two years or so. Since part of the reas\u00adon I go is to make sure that any symp\u00adtoms of glauc\u00adoma or mac\u00adu\u00adlar degen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion are found, I get the full check-up, involving hor\u00adrible chem\u00adic\u00adals to dilate the pupils. These, of course, \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cEyes and Sunhats\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}