Sight
Damn, I'm crap at updating.
Saturday evening I was picked up by bracke, nazgman and Seamstress, and taken to the Dalby quarry where we had a picnic and went swimming. It was very nice. :) And my mother called me to say that the fan I'd bought her had probably saved her life.
Sunday it was finally a bit cooler -- I even had to close the windows and the balcony door toward the evening! Now they're open again, though, since the heat seems to be back.
Yesterday I finally had my appointment with the orthoptist at the eye clinic up at the hospital. She was very nice, and determined that although I did have a bit of a squint, it wasn't very serious, and was probably mostly due to the stress of not having proper vision correction, so that if I got new glasses it would mostly go away. Which is good in a way, but I miss out on the subsidy I would have gotten for new glasses, had I needed correction for it. :\ On my way home I stopped by the optician, and got an appointment for today. Apparently my vision has improved somewhat from what it was in February, but not the need for reading glasses. He even let me try a pair of progressive lenses, since I've heard that some people can't handle progressives (my mother, for one; she gets seasick). But I had no problem at all. Maybe because I'm already used to highly refractive lenses, which kind of distort anything that isn't smack in the middle of my field of vision.
They have an offer that if you buy a pair of new progressives with them, you get an additional pair of purely reading glasses for only 550 SEK (only selected frames). Still, the progressives alone will cost me 5000-6000 SEK, plus the cost of the frames.
Frames, BTW. All current frames look the same! They are all narrow, wide and square, which is a shape that definitely doesn't suit me. The only frames I found in the optician's that actually both fit me and suited me cost 3000 SEK. O.o My eyes sit a little close together, so wide frames dont work, then I look like Björn Borg. And square frames enhance the frowny look I tend to have, as well as just generally looking bad on me.
So, the choice is, should I a. get a pair of progressives, for a large amount of money, with a cheap-and-ugly pair of readers thrown in, or b. get two separate pairs of glasses, one pair for distance, and one for reading, also for a large amount of money?
Pros with alternative (a): I'll have everything on my nose, no need to remember to bring reading glasses or fiddling with two different specs (or three, eventually, for the computer). Also, I'll get two new pairs, and can keep my present ones as backup-specs. Cons with alternative (a): If I need stronger reading glasses (but not distance glasses) in a year or two, I'll still need to buy a whole new pair of expensive progressives and separate reading glasses. Also, they don't make progessives in polycarbonate, which would make them have to be thicker at the edges = fugly.
Pros with alternative (b): I can use my old frames (which are a bit worn but still in good shape) for the reading glasses, and if I need new reading glasses in a year or two, I can just get those, and keep my distance glasses, if they are still OK. I can also get them in higly refractive polycarbonate, which makes much thinner lenses than the bottle-looking ones I used to have (though I'm told that they can make plastic lenses thinner these days). Cons with alternative (b): Getting two pairs of glasses will be damned expensive, even if I use my old frames. And fiddling with two (or three) separate glasses will be a bother, not to mention rememering to bring them and where I put them, and not being able to read product contents when I'm out shopping, and so on.
Had I been able to wear contact lenses, this would have been easily and inexpensively resolved by just getting a pair of cheap +1.25 reading glasses from the newsagents. :\
Damn my eyes.
Saturday evening I was picked up by bracke, nazgman and Seamstress, and taken to the Dalby quarry where we had a picnic and went swimming. It was very nice. :) And my mother called me to say that the fan I'd bought her had probably saved her life.
Sunday it was finally a bit cooler -- I even had to close the windows and the balcony door toward the evening! Now they're open again, though, since the heat seems to be back.
Yesterday I finally had my appointment with the orthoptist at the eye clinic up at the hospital. She was very nice, and determined that although I did have a bit of a squint, it wasn't very serious, and was probably mostly due to the stress of not having proper vision correction, so that if I got new glasses it would mostly go away. Which is good in a way, but I miss out on the subsidy I would have gotten for new glasses, had I needed correction for it. :\ On my way home I stopped by the optician, and got an appointment for today. Apparently my vision has improved somewhat from what it was in February, but not the need for reading glasses. He even let me try a pair of progressive lenses, since I've heard that some people can't handle progressives (my mother, for one; she gets seasick). But I had no problem at all. Maybe because I'm already used to highly refractive lenses, which kind of distort anything that isn't smack in the middle of my field of vision.
They have an offer that if you buy a pair of new progressives with them, you get an additional pair of purely reading glasses for only 550 SEK (only selected frames). Still, the progressives alone will cost me 5000-6000 SEK, plus the cost of the frames.
Frames, BTW. All current frames look the same! They are all narrow, wide and square, which is a shape that definitely doesn't suit me. The only frames I found in the optician's that actually both fit me and suited me cost 3000 SEK. O.o My eyes sit a little close together, so wide frames dont work, then I look like Björn Borg. And square frames enhance the frowny look I tend to have, as well as just generally looking bad on me.
So, the choice is, should I a. get a pair of progressives, for a large amount of money, with a cheap-and-ugly pair of readers thrown in, or b. get two separate pairs of glasses, one pair for distance, and one for reading, also for a large amount of money?
Pros with alternative (a): I'll have everything on my nose, no need to remember to bring reading glasses or fiddling with two different specs (or three, eventually, for the computer). Also, I'll get two new pairs, and can keep my present ones as backup-specs. Cons with alternative (a): If I need stronger reading glasses (but not distance glasses) in a year or two, I'll still need to buy a whole new pair of expensive progressives and separate reading glasses. Also, they don't make progessives in polycarbonate, which would make them have to be thicker at the edges = fugly.
Pros with alternative (b): I can use my old frames (which are a bit worn but still in good shape) for the reading glasses, and if I need new reading glasses in a year or two, I can just get those, and keep my distance glasses, if they are still OK. I can also get them in higly refractive polycarbonate, which makes much thinner lenses than the bottle-looking ones I used to have (though I'm told that they can make plastic lenses thinner these days). Cons with alternative (b): Getting two pairs of glasses will be damned expensive, even if I use my old frames. And fiddling with two (or three) separate glasses will be a bother, not to mention rememering to bring them and where I put them, and not being able to read product contents when I'm out shopping, and so on.
Had I been able to wear contact lenses, this would have been easily and inexpensively resolved by just getting a pair of cheap +1.25 reading glasses from the newsagents. :\
Damn my eyes.