ummm...yeah

     I don't know what to title the post, so, that's what you get. I don't have tons to write about, but I do have a couple pictures.

 

 

Look Mama! I can climb stairs.

    So, first we have this. On Thanksgiving, we were at my brother's house, which is 3 levels. You enter on the main level, and there are stairs up to the top level, and then a basement as well. We don't have stairs, and the only other houses we really go to only have stairs down, so we've blocked them off. I came out to the main room to not find Jacob. I turned and looked up, and he was at the top of the stairs with his cousins. I asked, and they'd only lifted him up the last 2 steps up to the landing. EEP! Apparently my little guy can climb now.  Not really a huge problem, seeing as we don't have stairs, so I can control when he practices.

 

 

What are these!?!?!?!

So, Saturday morning (at least, I think it was Saturday) Jacob got me up at 3:30, and he took too long to fall back asleep, so I stayed up. With nothing better to do, I set up the Christmas tree and put the lights on it. When Jacob got up it was awesome. I set him down as I finished stringing the lights, and he just sat there mesmerized for about 10 minutes. Then, when he finally made his way over to the tree, he would reach out and hold a light, and after a little bit (as it got too warm) he'd let go. Then he'd reach out and grab another, and let go. I didn't think to capture it on video, being up since 3:30 tends to make the mind not work terribly well. (At least for me) However, I did get a picture of him just standing there staring at it. I tried for him holding a light, but didn't get it in time.  Oh well.
    The only other thing to write about is my eye doctor appointment I had on Saturday. I went in, and my eyesight had gotten HUGELY worse. Since my eyesight had remained about the same for the past 4 or 5 years, and "at my age" it usually doesn't make jumps like that, the doctor wondered if it might be something else. Can I just say, I loved this new doctor. (thanks Steph and Nikki for the recommendation) He actually explains WHY he wants me to do something. (Other doctor: "don't wear your contacts more than 12 hours" or "here, use these contacts".) I was wearing my Acuvue 2 contacts for 15-17 hours a day. So, he did tell me to cut down on my usage if I'm going to continue using Acuvue 2, but he also explained why. The cornea doesn't have any blood vessels, so the way it gets its nutrients to keep it alive is through the tears and oxygen. Well, the contacts have to have a certain amount of permeability to wear them for however many hours. For 12 hours of wear, you need a permeability of 25, Acuvue 2 has a permeability of 28. (Higher means more permeable) For the 15-17 hours I've been wearing my contacts, a permeability of 50 is needed. Oops. What happens when your cornea doesn't get enough nutrients is it can start to swell. There isn't really any way of telling except that, it being swollen makes the eye longer. If you are near-sighted as I am, making the eye longer will make your eyesight worse. So, the sudden jump in my prescription may actually be my corneas swelling.
      So I had 2 options. The first was a different brand of contacts that was more permeable. So he brought in some with a permeability of 110. But that was the exact brand that the other doctor had said "here use these" (and not explained why) and they were way more expensive, and I'd bought a year's supply, only to find that my eyes HATED them, and they always felt dry, and I even had to wear 1 inside out for my eye to accept it. So I told him, and he brought one with a permeability of 60. My eyes still didn't like that. He said that was actually not terribly uncommon. The material they have to use to make it more permeable makes it less "wettable" (not as easy to wear). So, it looks like my only real choice is to either wear glasses, or wear my contacts for not as long. So, I have another eye appointment in 2 weeks to tell if my corneas did swell (after 2 weeks the swelling should be gone, so my prescription would go back to what it was) or if my eyesight really did get hugely worse.