{"id":22677,"date":"2013-10-16T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T22:15:12","slug":"clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22677","title":{"rendered":"Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Samhain Moon<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eye doc today said I had aniscoria. \u00a0Unequal pupils. \u00a0It means, in this instance, that my eyes don&#8217;t work together too well while reading, causing the type to float a bit, creating stress when I read a regular book rather than my kindle. \u00a0On my kindle I can adjust the size of the type to compensate. \u00a0Not been a problem until recently though the aniscoria is longstanding. \u00a0So, a pair of reading glasses. \u00a0Necessary because my eyes no longer adjust for each others differences. \u00a0And they used to. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to clear reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I go to an ophthalmologist twice a year due to an unusual retinal nerve. \u00a0Each time one of them looks in my eye they go, &#8220;Oh, my. Let&#8217;s see how this looked last time.&#8221; Always the same. \u00a0So far. \u00a0For over 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>These bi-annual or so visits, next week&#8217;s the dentist, the first week of November a colonoscopy, some people see as a nuisance. \u00a0I see these routines in the same way I see preventive maintenance on the car. \u00a0See a problem ahead of time and it&#8217;s easier to fix. \u00a0I can&#8217;t say I like them or dislike them. \u00a0They&#8217;re like eating your peas.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/dig.library.vcu.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/psm\">Will Eisner<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Most of us have some quirk here or there that requires professional attention. \u00a0We&#8217;re not clones and each of us is unique. \u00a0A former internist said we were, to a certain extent, all black boxes. \u00a0That is, our personal version of humanity deviates to a greater or lesser degree from the norm. \u00a0Most of the time I&#8217;m happier with greater. \u00a0In these matters though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Samhain Moon Eye doc today said I had aniscoria. \u00a0Unequal pupils. \u00a0It means, in this instance, that my eyes don&#8217;t work together too well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clarity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38863,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22677\/revisions\/38863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}