I can see! I can see!

[beckyzoole]

Earlier this week my glasses frame broke at the nose-piece. I tried taping the lens in place temporarily, but it made me feel dizzy and nauseated so I didn't wear them much. I guess I could have found an optometrist downtown: meh. I left replacing them for the weekend. I have been wandering around in a blur for a couple of days

Comments

[irishlight]

Lined or progressive lenses?

I first got bifocals (progressive) about ten years ago. About five years ago, I got the best second pair for me - computer glasses. Progressive, but with the distance vision corrected to the distance to a computer monitor, rather than out forever. I don't know about you, but I read a computer screen by looking up rather than down through the "near vision" part of the lenses. As it turns out, reading a book is also easier with the computer glasses than with the normal progressives. I just don't want to walk away from my desk with them. Things more than a few feet away are blurry, and I get a headache.

Good luck with them, I hope your transition and adjustment period is easy and swift.

MJ - very myopic, slightly astigmatic, and now presbyopic, for triple-threat eyes.

[beckyzoole]

Progressive lenses. I feel like I'm in a fishbowl right now. When I walked out of the optometrist shop into the mall, the shiny marble tiles swam up around me and I had to grab bbwoof's arm to walk straight. But now, just a few hours later, I'm already adjusting.

I'm still trying to figure out how best to see the monitor. It just feels so good to be able to see everything.

[technoshaman]

Isn't it good to be able to afford such things?

Go you!

[mizdandylynn]

I had bifocals at 7 years old...

I had the lasik done and had monovision with one eye being slightly less than the other... I don't even have reading glasses now...

[ithildae]

I got my first pair of bifocals in August just before school started. I could no longer read my notes.