u/cpbaby1968

(Flaired Controversial because these are my feelings about it. YMMV)

Monday I was texting with my mother and she said “Oh by the way, so and so asked for your contact information for yalls 40th year class reunion. I told her I had to ask you if it was OK to give her any information.” I told her it was ok to give her my email but not my phone number. Then when I got home, I found out that another person that I graduated with had friend requested me on Facebook. Since I knew what it was about, I accepted for the moment. (I have like 30 friends on fb. Not a huge fan). That person added me to the Blah Blah High School 40th Reunion group.

I’m pretty sure I’m not going. We had a five year reunion. I didn’t go. Haven’t had one since so why go to this one?

I was not a popular person in high school. I wasnt a jock. I wasn’t a prep. I wasnt a freak. I wasnt a geek. I was mainly a ghost. If anything, I was a fringe Goth before Goth became a counter culture in the middle of freaking nowhere. I existed in my own little world with weird clothes, weird makeup, weird hair in a community where there was nothing but country music stations.

Now that being said, everybody knew me….it was hard not to. We only had 35 people in my graduating class. I just feel like I have lived for the past 30-ish years within minutes of my parents house where I grew up. If anybody actually wanted to see me, they would’ve contacted me by now.

I know the only reason that I was invited was because I was a class member. I cannot think of one person from high school that I would hope to see that I don’t already see at Walmart or the grocery store.

I think I’m just rambling for the hell of it. The idea that it has been 40 years is just mind blowing and yet…. I didn’t belong then and I’m pretty darn sure I don’t belong now.

My brother lives 5 hrs away from me and had cataract surgery a couple of years ago. He got the LAL and haaaaaates them.

I had my cataract surgeries in April. I got the PanOptix Pro lenses. I absolutely love them.

We were gathered at our parents this past weekend and he was just absolutely so over the LAL’s. He asked how I liked mine and I said I love them. But if I’d hated them, the surgeon had told me I can always downgrade to a regular lens and just wear glasses. BUT IM NOT CAUSE WOW!

My brother was in shock. He said nobody told him they could replace them with something different. He thought “oh well. I chose wrong. That’s on me.” and even after expressing disappointment his surgeon didn’t offer any type of solution.

I told him I was sure it would be out of pocket but it’s better than being mad all the time cause you can’t see.

Before he left he asked me to send him the name of my lenses. He is aiming to find a different surgeon and see about getting his changed.

Has anyone had theirs changed? Were you happy with the change?

EDITED TO ADD: I am not looking to diagnose his problems. I was just curious if anyone had been so unhappy they had their lenses changed out and if so are they happy now?