New View on Life (cheesy I know)

So, I've debated over the past few months on whether or not to get contacts. I find that glasses work well, but there have been times where I've been scared of what would happen (and how I would pay) if my current glasses broke.

Contacts seemed like a good decision. Get disposables and then I can just take an extra pair or 2 on trips and not worry. So, Tuesday night, I setup an appointment at Walmart for next week. I realized that this was a bad idea due to my right eye having an astigmatism that usually rates off the charts and Thanksgiving being next Thursday.

I called last night and changed the appointment to today. Fearing the worst, I drove to Walmart being sure to have my sunglasses expecting to get my eyes dialated. I was early and played a game on the new xbox. Insane graphics. Just insane, but I digress.

I got the air puff test for glaucoma and don't have that to worry about. Then they measured my eyes and I waited to see the doc. He came in and looked at my chart. I confessed to my bad bad bad vision in my right eye and he acknowledged that my measurements were awesome. From there he gave me the alphabet soup test (which had numbers and totally threw me off). After playing that game, he said I had two options due to the fact that my head basically ignores my right eye now (it's lazy, which is beginning to creep into the rest of my system as well I suspect).

1) Stick with glasses. This would be more or less just for protection of my left eye. I've know for a long time that if my left eye is damaged, I'm hosed. I've lived like this for 23+ years. I know the dangers. What's option 2?

2) A single contact. It's cheaper and my right eye is basically useless. I've known this for a while, but it did get me strange looks the last time I took my driver's license exam. I have great peripheral vision, but can't make out any of their letters.

I opted for #2. So, he gave me a sample contact for my left eye and scheduled me for a follow up. The whole thing is kinda funny to me. But, at least now I won't have to worry about my glasses breaking :)