Blinded in the storm

It's a fact that I'm pretty much blind, well in my left eye at least. It's lazy. Stupid eye. As I age, the vision in my right eye gets worse and worse too. So between my lazy eye and my not so great right eye, I'm pretty hopeless to see anything further than 12 inches from my face without glasses or contacts.

Now I'm not sure if this is something many people think about, or if it's just me, but I have a serious fear of some sort of disaster occurring when I have neither my contacts in or my glasses on. It would be so awful to not be able to have clear vision in the aftermath of a tornado, earthquake, etc. wouldn't it? My extreme near-sightedness plus my stupid lazy left eye would make it pretty damn hard to know what I was looking at or where I was going. My biggest reason for the fear though is if, God forbid, I had to look for a member of my family I'd be worthless. Worthless and very very helpless. How horrible.

I think about this every night I go to bed and I always make sure my glasses are on my bedside table. I know realistically, my glasses aren't going to be the first thing I go for if I'm awoken by a tornado or something, but I guess it makes me feel better to know where they are at least.

I'm thinking I need to start saving for some Lasik, so I can put this crazy fear to rest. However, before that, I'll have to get over my fear of not being able to close my eyes. And the fear cycle continues...