superhero eyes

i went to the eye doctor this week to get my eyes checked and get a new pair of glasses, having lost mine in december returning from christmas vacation. think i put it off long enough?

so, i went to a doctor and everything was normal until she put me in front of this little device - i think maybe she called it an auto-refractor? i could have that wrong. anyway, you basically sit in front of this little machine and look in and there is a picture (mine was a blurry image of a red barn in a field) and supposedly the machine registers your eye and then moves the image out of focus and in focus back and forth i guess changing the focus of your eye and measuring some very scientific eye stuff. so my new doctor and i tried this on my eyes about ten times without success. she admitted the machine was finicky but said it had never failed to eventually work. after about a dozen tries and the machine continuing to say "cannot find eye" she called in the front desk girl. this girl took my place in front of the machine and her eye was "found" in about three seconds. now i'm a little concerned. so we try me again. no luck.

we then move on to the other tests, my doctor assuring me that everything is fine and verifying that my eyes are in fact okay. she even said they were just a "truly lovely blue - a beautiful eye" (how nice! this from a professional eye-looker!). so at the very end we tried me again at the machine twice more. still "no eye found".

she admitted before i left to pick out new frames that when she looked through her end of the machine she saw something she had never seen before...where my pupil was she saw a vapor or mist coming off of them. WHAT?! VAPOR/MIST COMING OFF OF MY PUPIL IN THE SPECIAL EYE READING MACHINE?!

upon returning home and relaying the story to my roommate and boyfriend they confirmed what i'd been thinking the whole time, "Baby, you're a superhero." Of course I am. Just wish i knew what my special vapor/mist eyes can do...

sidenote: of course my mother had a different take - "time to go to a different doctor asap."