Opthemology Appiontment...aka eye doctor

I went to see an opthemologist to see if I have lost any vision in my eyes because of the Chiari. Last week I went (with both kids in tow) to take a field of vision test. Yesterday I went back to get my results. Ben was fortunately home to watch the kids. The nurse called me back and put me in a chair to check my eyes. She told me she was putting some antiseptic in my eyes to numb them. She said it would burn, but I she should have said it will burn your eyes out. Holy cow. Then she told me to do my vision test....ya right with my eyes burning. I did the best I could. Then she said, "oh I have to put some more stuff in your eyes to numb them even more so I can dilate them and check pressures, it will burn worse this time." Oh boy did it burn. She put some tool in my eyes to check pressure and dilate them. Well, I had never had my eyes dilated to I had no idea what was to come. She handed me a tissue and told me to go back out to the waiting room until there was a room open. I can out of that part of the office with watery eyes, and it looked like I had been crying. I sat in a chair and thought that I could text Ben. Well, my eyes were burning and my vision started to go weird. I felt like I was going blind. I quickly became nauseous. I tried looking at my phone, and my eyes would burn and I literally could not see anything but blur. I gave up on the texting, calling, or internet browsing. I put my head down and kept my eyes closed.  I would open my eyes occasionally to look around to see what was going on in the waiting room and people would stare at me. I mean hard core stare at me. I thought maybe I had mascara on my face or something so I just kept my head down. Finally after 45 minutes of waiting, the doctor came to get me. I told her that people had been staring at me and that I felt sick. She realized this was my first time getting my eyes dilated and she told me to look in the mirror. I looked and my eyes looked like freaky alien eyes. My pupils took up my whole eye. Normally they would be black as can be, but my eyes looked really pale gray and transparent. It was freaky and crazy. The doctor proceeded to ask a million questions, and then gave me some good news. Finally. I have 20/20 vision. I have no damage to my optic nerve from the chiari. I do have a few spot where there could potentially be some problems in the future, but for now, nothing. She looked at every angle inside, outside, side side of my eyes. Then we walked over to take a prescription test. That is any strain on your eyes watching tv, reading or looking at distance. I have a slight strain or 1.5. She told me I could get some reader glasses with a prescription under 1 if I wanted to for reading and tv watching. Then we went to another camera and took pictures of my eyes. Every angle, and looking for damage to eyelids, tears of nerves, and other things. No damage there. I got tons of eye pictures which was pretty cool. I told them they had a great job. Seriously...make my eyes go big...really big and then take pictures of the back of my eyes and head...AWESOME! If any of you have had your eyes dilated, they are super light sensitive and can get damaged if you don't use these ridiculously awesome glasses....kidding, they are terrible and Ben laughed and me when he saw them. Ben called me on my way home and asked me to go to the grocery store for milk and eggs. Yes, we are that family. Emerson drinks so much milk. My little calf. Anyways, I took my glasses off to go into the store and holy moly pain in my eyes. I hurried as fast as I could. Then I decided to go to sonic to get myself a blackberry lemonade...yummy! I went home and rested some so my eyes would relax. It took hours and hours for my eyes to return to normal. All afternoon yesterday when I would talk to Ben or he would talk to me, I would get real close to him and tell him to look in my eyes. They were freaky deaky and we would both just start laughing. It was so fun! Basically, my eyes are great and so they are probably not aiding in my headaches. Finally something that is ruled out. I go back in 6 months for the same round of tests to see if there are any changes.