Random Things I'm Happy to See

My eyes have been SO bad, for SO long. Not just blurriness, but distortion, multiple images, mosaics of halos around light sources at night.

With my new contact, I can see 20/20 again. It's so amazing. I still see multiple images on high contrast edges, and halos at night, but I can function again. I'm incredibly grateful.

I've been making a list of Random Things I'm Happy to See.

Individual blades of grass
Individual hairs on my friend Jacob's beard (and his piercings, I could never see them before)
How beautiful Hawaii Five-0 is
Trees
Bushes
Sunsets
My Pathfinder character sheet
Pretty dice I couldn't read for the longest time
How low-quality some of the photos are on the news sites I read
Wrinkles on faces
The colors of people's eyes
Words in the hymn book at church
Lines on the road not splitting off into the distance, but staying where they're supposed to be
The fond smiles I get from friends when I do something silly, like being stupidly excited about using fireball
The detail on the Fury drop in Sims Social (never saw the face before)
All the high-quality art in MouseHunt
All the bug smears on my windshield
The flaws in my own skin
How bloodshot my eyes get when the contact rubs wrong
My pet mouse's whiskers (there are so many, and they are so cute)
The patterns in my pet cat's fur
Speckles on jellybeans


I get this little burst of pleasure in my chest every time I notice something that I couldn't see before. And there have been many, many bursts of pleasure in the past couple of weeks.

My contact can be a pain. It's not as easy to use as a soft contact, and putting it in can take me a dozen tries, though I'm getting better. My eye gets sore and dry sometimes, and I'm learning to use eye drops instead of rubbing like I instinctively want to.

But it's so...incredibly...worth it.

I'm looking forward to reading for pleasure again. Haven't done that for a long time. Maybe I'll finally get some writing done, too.