I woke up the other morning, and after I reached over to click off the alarm I felt around for my glasses and couldn’t find them. My vision is beyond terrible and seems to get worse every month, and I have a hard time getting around without them let alone first thing in the morning. So using the wall as a guide, I made it past my dresser and knew my end table was coming up soon, but I didn’t know I left the vacuum cleaner beside it. I walked right into it, stubbing my big and second toe on my right foot with such force I had to squat down and squeeze them for a few minutes. After the pain went away I made to the bathroom and put on my spare glasses, and then I looked myself in the mirror and said, “Enough is enough.” My daughter had told me about a new eye surgery she had a couple years back, and I had thought about it, but it had something to do with lasers. Call me old fashioned but eyeballs and lasers don’t mix in my book! All the women in our family have bad eyesight, and Sharon said if it worked for her it would definitely work for me. I called her up and asked her about that afternoon, and she said it was called Lasik Eye Surgery, and that there’s plenty of information on it on the internet. I am not very good on the computer except for typing, but she gave me the website and directed me to this extra page with a ton of articles on eye surgery. After I read up on them, I filled out the form and received a call today and set up an appointment for Wednesday. I am still a little nervous, but the website and the lady explained everything clearly, but it’s still hard to believe I won’t need these glasses after Wednesday afternoon!

I just joined a co-ed flag football team, and even though it isn’t full contact it’s as close as the real thing gets. I played strong safety and wide receiver in high school, so I know my way around the field, and after our first game I was hooked. I had two picks and a touchdown, and man I forgot how much I missed the action on the field! A coworker of mine started the team up, and he was an athlete too, so honestly we’re pretty stacked. They won the tournament last year, and they only lost a few people, so I have a good feeling about this season. We just had a game last night, and it was drizzling a little but the field wasn’t that bad. We all had spikes so we weren’t worried, but the team we played was maybe a .500 team and a few people were playing in tennis shoes. We scored on our first three possessions and stopped them every time, so we knew we could cruise to victory. I’ll give the other team credit, because they didn’t quit, but one guy tried a little too hard. He caught a pass on the wing and was pretty fast so he got into our secondary and I caught him on a diagonal pursuit, but that’s when it happened. He went to make a cut on me and as he did, his right foot slipped and he twisted his knee worse than I have ever seen. He was one of the guys wearing tennis shoes, and his cry in agony said it all. His teammates ran over as I backed away, and they kept asking if he needed an ambulance. After a few times he yelled out, “I can’t! I don’t have any health insurance”, and that’s when I felt really bad for him. My company provides me with mine, but a teammate of mine said he went to a health insurance website and found a great plan for himself. He said it answered every question he had and set him up quickly, and knowing you’re covered is always a good thing. Unfortunately for the guy who twisted his knee, instead of a monthly payment and a deductible he’s going to have a mountain of medical bills on the way.