mneh.
It's been clear (ha, ha) to me for a while that my eyesight is getting worse. It's been two years since I had my eyes checked and got new lenses, so it's hardly surprising that they aren't working as well as they used to. But today was really a whole other step in that direction. Or, this week. On Monday evening, I was driving up the Parkway on my way in to choir practice and happened to look at the trees by the side of the road -- and, granted I was going about fifty miles an hour, I was impressed by how leafy they didn't seem. That is, I remember that in college when I realized I really had to wear my contacts all the time I went outside one day and I was all startled how I could see all the leaves on the trees. Previously it wasn't as if trees were just blobby green things such as a child might have painted, but it was definitely a difference of painting-level vs. photography-level detail. I could see each leaf. And the other day when I was driving I felt like the vision was non-crisp again.
Then today, at the place, when I had these computer-skills tests to do, I wanted for all the world to focus the screen before I began. Couldn't! No focus button that I could find (in my approximately 30 seconds of searching). And I can tell that titles on my bookshelves, less than six feet away, aren't as clear as I'd like them to be. My eyes feel strained as though I had the beginning of a migraine coming on -- closing them doesn't help as much as closing them and covering with something dark, so they can really properly relax.
So it is well past time to get the prescription updated. Fortunately, I now have insurance, of a sort -- it's a weekly deduction from whatever I earn at the place I went to today, which I'm allowed to pay for myself in weeks I'm not working. But I'd sort of like to hang in there until I have real insurance and can abandon this weekly thing.
Sigh.
Then today, at the place, when I had these computer-skills tests to do, I wanted for all the world to focus the screen before I began. Couldn't! No focus button that I could find (in my approximately 30 seconds of searching). And I can tell that titles on my bookshelves, less than six feet away, aren't as clear as I'd like them to be. My eyes feel strained as though I had the beginning of a migraine coming on -- closing them doesn't help as much as closing them and covering with something dark, so they can really properly relax.
So it is well past time to get the prescription updated. Fortunately, I now have insurance, of a sort -- it's a weekly deduction from whatever I earn at the place I went to today, which I'm allowed to pay for myself in weeks I'm not working. But I'd sort of like to hang in there until I have real insurance and can abandon this weekly thing.
Sigh.