On Needing Eyeglasses
I've noticed some decline in my visual acuity for quite some time now, but as with most inconveniences, one makes allowances and carries on. Thanks to some poor planning with my FLEX account, I discovered that I needed to spend a big pile of cash on either my teeth or my eyes within the next month or else donate the funds to people who I've never met and whose very existence I hypothetically despise. Since I've already spent a bundle to fix my teeth in the past couple of years, the eye exam was a logical choice.
I was secretly hoping that my vision wasn't so bad after all, but I was only fooling myself. I could barely read the 20/30 line, and the benefits of correction were immediately obvious. So it seems that the second half of my life will be spent looking through corrective lenses. Maybe they'll make me look more distinguished or at least hide the bags under my eyes.
Coming soon: "On needing a cane"
I was secretly hoping that my vision wasn't so bad after all, but I was only fooling myself. I could barely read the 20/30 line, and the benefits of correction were immediately obvious. So it seems that the second half of my life will be spent looking through corrective lenses. Maybe they'll make me look more distinguished or at least hide the bags under my eyes.
Coming soon: "On needing a cane"
Labels: eyeglasses, getting old
posted by scalpel at 5:53 PM
18 Comments:
Big pile of cash == LASIK? :D
A sobering post for us 20 somethings who never want to see the day an ophthalmologist appointment is needed (ooo, is that a pun?).
One solution. www.39dollareyeglasses.com. I have had a pair for the last two years that everyone thinks I bought in a haute couture eyeglasses shop.
Accommodate but doesn't react?
Scalpel? Say it ain't so.
Rini, no way would I ever get LASIK.
kd5, enjoy it while it lasts.
ERP, thanks for the link, I'm going to buy some sunglasses from that site. Doesn't help me much with my FLEX problem though.
Good one, Happy.
Well, at least you only needed glasses! I went last summer thinking I needed glasses because my eyes felt yucky (seriously, that was the best description I could come up with). I ended up months later with a diagnosis of sjogren's. I'd rather have the glasses I think!
Guys in glasses are hot though. I'm not sure how I feel about canes yet.
Funny!
Scalpel...as men age..they are luckier than women because they do look distinguished.. but women can get haggard. (Should have good skin care routine) Not fair. I guess because men have that masculine rugged thing goin on anyway.
I am one of those people who goes without glasses but really should ware them more.
I think computers make them worse... or speed up the process.
I can drive without glasses... but if I want to read signs at a distance...glasses help.
I can see with out them... but the difference is..."OOOOH...look at how individual the leaves on the branches are!"
I can definitely read without them... however a couple of years ago... I thought I had bought a defective shampoo bottle when I went to read the very tiny print on the back of said bottle.
It wasn't defective.
I have contacts for distance... but then I can't read with them.
I tried that wearing one contact but couldn't get used to it or I gave up too soon.
So...I guess I am crossing over to the blurry side.
Does anyone else do this?
When I am reading the chart...it's like I am proving I can read.
"abc..no e..n-n-n? yeah that's it n!" And I'll still try the next line.
I think as soon as the 1st doubt comes in..there's your prescription! But I keep on trying as if to show them..I don't NEED glasses!
Something tells me you're a long way off from a cane. :)
Oooh, glasses. Radioactive Girl's right on the money.
Eyeglasses and teeth, we've got it figure out.... No pesky Obamacare for us!
DocV, DMD
actually they do a FABULOUS job of hiding the undereye circles and bags!
Glasses can be hawt for doods, but if your dood gets glasses for the first time, you run the risk of him going, "Oh crap, you're way uglier than I realized!"
PS, Is DocV your brother, Scalpel?
eh. at least the people i'm required to see in the ed will now reimburse me pennies on the dollar instead of nothing on the dollar.
trying to "save money" by refusing to pay for bounceback admissions is horse shit, however.
Hmm. no sympathy here. i've been wearing them since the school nurse discovered I couldn't read the big E on the chart (more of a 'where's the chart' thing)- that was fifth grade. I'm now heading toward bifocals.
I'm not inclined to try the lasik. ERNursey is right about hiding the bags. I tried contacts once but had to spend a fortune on concealer.
Nurse K,
Nope. My brother doesn't read or write blogs.
DocV
Everyone wonders why the LASIK surgeon wears eyeglasses.
Eyeglasses shop http://www.globaleyeglasses.com/
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