Dr. Okonjo

…the left, in my glasses. She says it is time. - Which first? The right; it is worse. March 12. The left on April 9. - What goes in? The plain kind Medicare pays for, and glasses still for my astigmatism; or a "toric" lens that corrects it, $1,150.00 an eye out of my own pocket. I said yes to the toric. - Driving? So…

…March 12 and the left a month after. I stopped driving after dark in November, when the headlights coming at me on the Beltline turned into dandelions. Connie drives me to guild now. There is a lens that corrects the astigmatism as well, at a price, out of pocket, for each eye. I said yes before R. could look at the…

…t like the bottom of a swimming pool, with Dr. Okonjo talking quietly to her nurse about lenses. Connie drove me there and back; R. in a waiting room is no use to anybody. The shield came off this morning. The refrigerator is white. I had thought for some years that it was cream. My own face in the bathroom mirror…

…20/25 left, with no glasses at all. Reading glasses, +1.75, from the drugstore. Three pairs: kitchen, sewing room, handbag. Drops for the left eye run to May 7. My driver's license says corrective lenses; ask at the DMV whether that can come off.

…he diabetes at all. Pressures normal. His glasses are out of date and he has a new prescription; Brillen Optical.