OK, trying to finish up the backstory here, then we can get on to all the "progress" stuff.
When last we left our heroine, she had just gotten the news that she is now a good candidate for VT. Cue band! So, what does that mean...exactly? It mean open up your wallet! Being of that wonderful age where my eyes are presbiopic, I need distance AND reading glasses. But just get bifocals, you say.... Remember that eye that wanders around and turns in?? Yeah, looking through a small section of my lens, not so much. Oh, and my year is not up on my insurance, so I'm not even eligible for 1 pair...yet. Plan is hatched....
So, we do a full refraction and order the close up glasses. I picked a frame with largish lenses to give me the biggest visual field I can. The large amount of prism I need need on the vertical gets split between the 2 lenses. I now look like a bug eyed freak! Great! Good thing I'm not overly self-conscious of my appearance. I can deal w/ this. We'll wait on the distance till my insurance clicks over and then replace the lenses in my current distant glasses.
I pick up my new bug eyes, put them on and immediately, my stomach does flips! I can't see straight! Or rather I can, but I'm not used to it! I start wearing them as much as possible. Since most of the things I do are close up - computer, cooking, reading - we're golden! I start wearing my bug eyes all the time unless I'm driving or having to look far for extended times. I start getting used to seeing this new way. At times, I can tell I'm actually seeing the same things with both eyes and things "sharpen" which is an odd sensation.
Time for my first VT session! Woo hoo! I'm ready! I get there and find I'm working with the tech and not the doc. That's cool...she's a crack up! Here, try this, now this, do this, make your eyes do this. Are you kidding me? Someone has delusions of what my eyes are capable of! Let's back up the trolley! New plan! OK, let's start back a little further....a little more basic. Here's your homework, see you in a couple weeks. It's all good...but this is going to be a looooooong road! I can do this!
Session 2 goes a bit better. We're still working on basics. Brock String with 1 bead, sliding tranaglyphs, and the red green bars over a Hart chart. Let's play with the Quoits Vectorgram. It's polarized glasses and 2 sheets with the picture of a rope circle in a light box. This is cool! I get it to where it's crisp and clear AND I can see it popping out at me. I have depth! Holy eyeball pain Batman! This hurts! But I can take a stick and put it down the middle of the image and see depth! This is wild! OK, now I want to pop my eyeballs out and ice them down please!
Same homework with a jump tranaglyph added. This is so not happening! It's a sheet with red green images and there are circles that should pop. I can see "something" happening on the one that is 3 diopter separation, but the rest just sit there. We'll work on this.... And I still can't get depth with divergence (should look like it's going away). Heh, my eyes do not want to move out not surprisingly since it turns it quite nicely and is happy there.
Next week, session 3 and my eyes are just not cooperating! Ugh! I just can't get the depth coming up and it's frustrating. But it's all good....some days are better than others even with the homework and we keep plugging along. I get 3 weeks worth of homework because we are going on vacay for spring break. But it's almost time for the insurance to click over so I can get my distance lenses. But (there's always a but) the timing is such that if I surrender them and they don't get them back in time, I could be without any distance glasses at all for the trip. That would not be cool! Strings are pulled, heroes are made, and my distance glasses are getting made early! I still have to be without them for a time, but at least there should be plenty of lead time before the trip!
Now we're all caught up on the backstory....good times, goooooood times. On to progress!
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