Saturday, June 9, 2012

Fictionalizing Worries

I've discovered lately it's easy for your mind to get carried away; fictionalize REALITY as you worry needlessly over this or that. For instance...yesterday I had to renew my DRIVER'S LICENSE. No problem you say except that a year or so ago my opthomologist who couldn't be accused of optimism told me I had cataracts forming.

That was enough to put me in SEVERE STRESS, so at his suggestion I was to make an appointment. WITHIN the next year when I had problems seeing to have laser SURGERY. Try that worry on for size. He assured me that I would NEED this type of treatment WHEN I had vision problems. So I, waited then made an appointment with an eye specialist; and started worrying.

Finally the day for the exam with a locally noted eye doctor occurred. The NEW specialist told me I DIDN'T need immediate surgery-it was my decision when I was bothered by my eyes ENOUGH. Somehow I expected this new doctor to make that decision for me, but NO he didn't.

The only problem I have is with reading up close and he gave me new glasses with a STRONGER prescription. So it's been a year now. Enter the villain-the eye exam to have my driver's license renewed. Add the scenario if I don't get my renewal, I'll have to have hubby driveme everywhere and will become totally DEPENDENT on him.

I can almost think up a catchy title for this fictional story BUT it didn't happen-only in my MIND which was very creatively going BESERK! I went to the drivers license office, passed the exam with flying colors, got my renewal and still am in limbo about my EYE PROBLEMS???Worry is such a constant in all of our lives-it should be given a better name.

3 comments:

  1. I am glad you passed your eye exam.

    Doctors are funny people these days. They have authority; they do not have authority. Seems they take on the job of giving us information and that's about it.

    Every time I hear a TV ad telling me which color of pill to ask my doctor for and then all the crippling side effects I might experience if I have the condition that causes me to ask for the pill the doctor might write a script for, I feel like the ads are a bigger pain than any condition they might describe.

    Which always leads to the life insurance ad.....

    Good luck with the eye docs!

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  2. I'm guilty, too, of creating amazing fiction with my worries. Nine times out of ten, the non-fiction outcome is much less stressful.

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  3. I worry all the time, too. It's very annoying, isn't it? So glad you can put off that decision a bit longer. But, don't be afraid to have the surgery. I remember when my mother had it years ago and her vision really improved. Hang in there!

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