Cross-eyed
Well, not really. But I hope to do something soon about the blur I see all too often. Thursday I finally got in to see my eye doctor. We were supposed to go see him last December (amid all the pre-xmas to do), only I was sick and canceled. My DH went for his, and found out that he's still seeing just fine through his glasses. I knew I wasn't, but somehow I didn't make getting a replacement appointment a high priority.
It turns out that the reason my glasses aren't working well is that my eyes have gotten better. One eye has reverted to a prescription from 2004 and the other from 2000! Nifty keen -- there really are some advantages to growing old! (I'm nearsighted, and would be legally blind in my right eye if it weren't correctable. But apparently, that tendency to grow farsighted in one's elder years is working for me.)
Then of course comes the hideous business of picking out new glasses. Remember how badly I see without glasses? If I could keep the old glasses on while trying on the new pair.... ::sigh:: Plus my face is super-sensitive. I have a tendency to contract sinus headaches, and the wrong pair of glasses can really set them off. "Oh, we can adjust that" is what the clerks say now, when the sale is still gleaming before them. But I know I've bought glasses in the past that couldn't be adjusted to non-headache-producing, and that makes me anxious about picking out glasses now. Plus, my face is fat, and there's no such thing as a pair that will make me look pretty. ::grrrwl::
I really like my eye doctor, and would prefer to buy my glasses from his shop. But it's a small business, and he can't offer guarantees like Eye Masters can. So yesterday I went to Eye Masters. And discovered that the doc hadn't fully filled out the prescription he gave me. He left the reading prescription blank, maybe because it didn't change? Anyway, I have to call on Monday and get him to fax a proper prescription to them. And go back and see if I still like the frames I set aside on Saturday. And then order what hopefully will be a good pair of glasses that I can actually see through....
The other good news from my exam on Thursday is that my macular degeneration is holding steady. It's incipient, and that's where I want it to stay for a long time yet. (Getting that diagnosis several years back was unsettling!) I take special vitamins twice a day, and apparently they're helping.
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We've got friends coming over for a Chartmaster Rolemaster game this afternoon. I'm looking forward to it; last year I concluded that my initial attempt at characters didn't take proper advantage of the rules, and the GM allowed me to retire them and write up new ones. And then several months of hiatus ensued. So I've had these new ladies bugging my brain, wanting to truly take form -- that is, to be role-played. Rolemaster is still far from my favorite game, but I got a lot more familiar with it during our game last year. So hopefully, this will be a good session!
It turns out that the reason my glasses aren't working well is that my eyes have gotten better. One eye has reverted to a prescription from 2004 and the other from 2000! Nifty keen -- there really are some advantages to growing old! (I'm nearsighted, and would be legally blind in my right eye if it weren't correctable. But apparently, that tendency to grow farsighted in one's elder years is working for me.)
Then of course comes the hideous business of picking out new glasses. Remember how badly I see without glasses? If I could keep the old glasses on while trying on the new pair.... ::sigh:: Plus my face is super-sensitive. I have a tendency to contract sinus headaches, and the wrong pair of glasses can really set them off. "Oh, we can adjust that" is what the clerks say now, when the sale is still gleaming before them. But I know I've bought glasses in the past that couldn't be adjusted to non-headache-producing, and that makes me anxious about picking out glasses now. Plus, my face is fat, and there's no such thing as a pair that will make me look pretty. ::grrrwl::
I really like my eye doctor, and would prefer to buy my glasses from his shop. But it's a small business, and he can't offer guarantees like Eye Masters can. So yesterday I went to Eye Masters. And discovered that the doc hadn't fully filled out the prescription he gave me. He left the reading prescription blank, maybe because it didn't change? Anyway, I have to call on Monday and get him to fax a proper prescription to them. And go back and see if I still like the frames I set aside on Saturday. And then order what hopefully will be a good pair of glasses that I can actually see through....
The other good news from my exam on Thursday is that my macular degeneration is holding steady. It's incipient, and that's where I want it to stay for a long time yet. (Getting that diagnosis several years back was unsettling!) I take special vitamins twice a day, and apparently they're helping.
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We've got friends coming over for a Chartmaster Rolemaster game this afternoon. I'm looking forward to it; last year I concluded that my initial attempt at characters didn't take proper advantage of the rules, and the GM allowed me to retire them and write up new ones. And then several months of hiatus ensued. So I've had these new ladies bugging my brain, wanting to truly take form -- that is, to be role-played. Rolemaster is still far from my favorite game, but I got a lot more familiar with it during our game last year. So hopefully, this will be a good session!