I've written before on the challenges of aging eyes, especially when working with a disability that makes neck movements difficult. My first pair of bifocals just didn't work out. I couldn't move my neck up and down to the correct levels to work with the bifocals. So, for the past year and a half, I've gone back to wearing my funky purple Baby Phat glasses, which I'd turned into readers, as my main glasses. They never worked well as readers (I just take off my glasses completely to read), but I can see the computer screen fine, and the TV okay (it's a bit blurry, but not bad).
Saturday I finally had a check up with the eye doctor. We decided to skip the bifocals, and since I don't drive, hence don't need to worry over much with distance, we worked to get a prescription that worked well between computer screen and TV screen distance. At some point, I may need two pair of glasses, but for now, I think it'll work okay.
My friend Tom, my fashion consultant, helped me pick out an equally funky new pair of glasses. Green this time, and a bit more oval than my current rectangular frames. I never really liked the frames in my bifocals.They were light blue, oval and too large, hitting my cheeks. The last couple times I wore them, I broke out in a rash where they came into contact with my cheeks. Not a good thing.
My contact prescription is a bit iffy, though. We're trying mono vision -- a test pair -- with my left eye corrected for distance, my right for near vision. I tried them yesterday and it was a struggle. I took them out after only about two hours. I'll try them again when I'm not doing close work or reading. They actually may work well for sporting events, movies, shopping. I'm taking the day of work on Friday and Monday so will wear them a bit more to see if I adjust to them.
It's heck getting old. At least when I was younger, my vision was consistently near-sighted, so one pair of glasses did it all -- reading, computer, distance.
