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Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Getting Old???

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Sparky . . . .

Does this chart look clear to you?

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

WebGuy wrote:

Sparky . . . .

Does this chart look clear to you?

LOL!!!

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Only when I stand across the hall on my bosses desk.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

So you can see things close up or far away best?

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I think I was in 6th grade when I got glasses.

I had NO idea that I was having trouble seeing. I remember our teacher put an eye chart up on the board and had us all take turns at reading it. When it was my turn I was like "Pffft, I gotta get closer, I can't read that thing."

I remember a girl a couple years younger than me in all seriousness saying "Oh no! He's going blind!"

When my mom picked me up, my teacher told her to get me to the eye dr. We got the glasses ordered and my dad was worried that I was going to be impossible to get to wear them. When I put them on, I was so happy to be able to see, that getting me to wear them was not a problem at all.

I didn't know that I couldn't see until I could see clearly.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

shh dont tell him but they had no prescription in them.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

I had kind of a similar experience last weekend. I put on a baseball cap backwards and happened to walk passed a mirror. I looked like a 38 yr old man trying to look like an 18 yr old. My days of wearing a baseball cap backwards are done....

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

maybe if you took the socks off when wearing shorts it would help.

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Actually I can see up close better, AC says most Doctors would tell me not to worry about it since it's such a small prescription but it has really been bugging me.

I was that way last night when I put them on and could see perfectly.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

We have a friend that a few years ago went and got lasik done on her eyes. She was sooo happy to not have to wear glasses any more.

Since then, she's gotten to where she now needs bifocals so she got the 1/2 glasses bifocals things that she'd put on when she needed them. She found that at work she needed them all the time and got frustrated with finding them taking them on and off all the time.

So now, she has regular glasses again that are no prescription on top and bifocals on the bottom. She's thinking she wasted a bunch of money on lasik surgery.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

I was in 3rd grade when I got glasses.

In math class, I had a seat over to the side of the chalkboard along the same wall. I thought it was the angle, so I told the teacher I was having a hard time seeing it, and she moved me. Well, I still couldn't see, so I started looking off of other people's papers to see what they were copying down, and I was so afraid that someone would think I was cheating.

Then, I told my mom I couldn't read the clock on top of the tv when sitting on the couch anymore, and she didn't believe me.

Then we had a schoolwide eye test that they did every couple years. It was in the locker rooms. They made the locker rooms all dark and projected a line of letters on the wall. All my friends were going in and then coming out to compare to see if they saw the same thing. I went in and they told me to read the letters. I replied, "What letters?" They said, "Here, take this note to your mom..."

I'm still pretty blind. Without contacts or glasses, the world is just a bunch of colors.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

allycat wrote:

maybe if you took the socks off when wearing shorts it would help.

it wasn't shorts, it was underwear. smile

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

lasik sucks...it takes away my good customers.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Until they need bifocals, then they come back again.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:
allycat wrote:

maybe if you took the socks off when wearing shorts it would help.

it wasn't shorts, it was underwear.

hmm....hat+underwear = not getting any.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

WebGuy wrote:

Until they need bifocals, then they come back again.

no most people are doing the monovision thing...having one eye corrected for far...one for near.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I would think that would be really hard to get used to.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

its not that bad, you have one dominant eye anyway...the one you would aim a gun or a camera with. Your brain is using the image from that eye for "computing" what you see...the other eye is more for the "widescreen" view of things. So you correct the other eye with upclose and you still see things out of it so it doesnt bother most people.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

allycat wrote:

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

allycat wrote:

maybe if you took the socks off when wearing shorts it would help.

it wasn't shorts, it was underwear.

hmm....hat+underwear = not getting any.

it was just the hat. smile

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

are you sure?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

got some anyway....

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

Yes, I went through that in 10th grade. I was watching MTV literally every moment when I wasn't asleep or in school, and I started getting closer and closer to the TV. My mom suspected it wasn't just because DLR was on the screen - something must be wrong, and she was right.

I was very upset, because I felt so unattractive as it was, and didn't want to have to wear glasses! I thought maybe if I lie on my bed, and stare at my Roger Daltrey poster through my new glasses for a few hours a day, focusing hard, my eyes will get better soon and I won't need them anymore!

I wouldn't wear my glasses in the hallways of the school. I'd put them on when I sat at my desk, and take them off when the bell rang.

But the part that made it better was that my best friend needed glasses at the same time! So we both got our first pairs the same week, and we both had the same prescription. (It seemed that he & I were always on the same page!) So we would trade glasses when we watched TV & stuff. And the fact that we were going through this "devastating"

period together made it easier.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

I'd do that too, take my glasses off in the hall, especially in middle and high school. Luckily, I got contacts soon after. My eyesight was (is) bad enough that I couldn't see faces, so if a friend wanted to say hi, I wouldn't recognize them until they spoke.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

I think I got glasses when I was 12. I got 2 pair and looking back they were horrid! They were so big! One pair was a pastel pink and the other a pastel blue. I was told later that I needed to get a lazy eye fixed. I threw a fit and never had it done. As a teenager I sometimes didn't wear my glasses to watch tv. My Mom didn't care. She thought I was strengthing my eyes- lol

Today I can't see a thing if I don't have contacts or glasses. I still would love to have lasik. It has got to be better than this. Just to be able to wake up and see.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Woo Hoo wrote:

Today I can't see a thing if I don't have contacts or glasses. I still would love to have lasik. It has got to be better than this. Just to be able to wake up and see.

Same here. I can't imagine being able to read the alarm clock. Or, to fall asleep without waking up to glasses stuck in my temple or contacts glued to my eyelids.

Jeremy Riggs · Do I look a little pale to you?

Boy, speaking of getting old.

It's been nearly a month since I returned from NC and because I drove 14 hours straight with no breaks my left leg hurt like hell for two weeks afterwards. It's ALMOST 100% now, but I still feel a little tightness in the ankle area and up near the back of the knee.

I don't need Advil anymore, and I can tell it's almost back to normal. BUT A MONTH! This is the type of thing that 10 years ago would have been fine in two days.

I hate gettin' old

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

I had to start wearing bifocals for reading the day I hit 40. I'd noticed when I was reading, things looked like they were getting fuzzy and running slightly downhill. So I went in for an eye exam, and picked up my glasses on my birthday. I think I could've probably gotten away with just buying a cheap pair of reading glasses from a store because the top half of my glasses have never had a prescription in them whatsoever.

Three years ago when I got my driver's license renewed I passed the vison test without my glasses, but I have a feeling when I go next year I won't be so lucky reading the small little letters in the machine. I'll probably end up with a restriction on my license even though I can see great for distance and can read street signs, etc with no problem.

One thing I've noticed though.......every job I've had for the past 30 years, I've had to use a computer to do my work on. I believe it's done something to my night vision as I can no longer see to drive after dark anymore, nor can I see if the lights are suddenly shut off in the house at night. It takes my eyes an extremely long time to adjust from light to dark. I remember when IBM first brought computers into my work place....the tech people told us at that time "don't be surprised if years later you have problems with night vision." Well I do, and I attribute it to using the early computers for so many years. hmm

Jeremy Riggs · Do I look a little pale to you?

Sandy,

I'm right there with you on the night vision. Ever since I got contact lenses I need sunglasses ALL the time, expecially in winter with the snow. And at night I have the hardest time driving.

My eye doc said contacts could make my eyes more sensitive to light, so I assume that's what is causing it.