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Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
I've fought it, because they make me dizzy.
But I find myself peering under my glasses to read any print at all. And any time at the computer leaves my eyes dry and painful. My eye doctor suggests lying down three times a day with a warm compress on my eyes, which doesn't seem overly helpful to me given that on days that leisurely my eyes are unlikely to be strained. And drops, which I absolutely can barely be given by a competent nurse with strong fingers, never mind myself.
Sigh.
Daddy was right about forty. Well, I think I'd move it to fortyfive, but still.
Posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 15:12:03
In reply to Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
So what did he say about 40? Time to bail?
I first got glasses prescribed 30 years ago and have never worn them because they make the visual field curl up at the edges (and that makes me feel quite odd) and the clarity of vision is disturbing. (I have got used to the world looking like an Impressionist painting and that's fine).
The last lot of glasses I got five years ago, nice Italian red frames (didn't suit me), very expensive (where are they now?)and they went dark when you went in the light (I ruined them by cleaning them under the hot tap).
I was trying to watch "Fanny and Alexander" last night and while I could read the subtitles I had to squint to recognise the characters.
Posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 15:14:15
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 15:12:03
Film
Posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 15:24:10
In reply to Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
I took my vision test for my drivers license renewal today. It wasn't pretty. The lady told me to read line 5 and I could barely see a line 5.
I missed a lot of #'s but she gave me second and third chances and passed me anyway--comforting, ain't it?
I've been wearing reader's for years but I guess bifocals will be next.
Geezers...we're all geezers!
Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 15:35:01
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 15:12:03
Something like that. :) Used to scare me senseless as a very literal little girl.
I've been wearing glasses since I was in middle school and was astonished to find that trees had leaves and people had faces when they are more than five feet from you. They are discombobulating. But I find bifocals even moreso.
I love the lenses that turn dark in the light. My eye pigment is so pale that it really just as well not be there so all light is blinding light to me. Plus, once they get old they kind of stay dark which lets me hide myself from others. :)
Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 15:38:38
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 15:24:10
lol. So that's how my mom got her license!
Yep. I never saw it coming, did you? I just naturally assumed that aging was something that happened to others and I would be twenty forever inside, and I wouldn't look too closely at the outside.
Posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 16:03:52
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Phil, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 15:38:38
I'm hitting 54 soon. I can't even fake cool anymore.
Yeah, I never saw it coming. I think the depression and isolation that I dwell in has really made the years fly and I have very few life experiences to show for it.
Despite it all, I still feel fortunate. Don't ask me why. lol
Posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 16:36:23
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 16:03:52
Within certain well defined limits, you can get cooler as you get older, so long as you started from a very low base.
Posted by Bobby on July 6, 2007, at 18:49:55
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Phil on July 6, 2007, at 16:03:52
you can sing along with the music in the elevator.
Posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
In reply to one of the benefits of getting older, posted by Bobby on July 6, 2007, at 18:49:55
Gee, I've got a long way to go before I can do that.
I'm very nervous in elevators, looking at the floor number, thinking of terrible conversations I could start with complete strangers, along the lines of...
"Do you ever feel like we are part of a criminal conspiracy?'
or
'Can you explain projective identification really quickly for me?'
Posted by fayeroe on July 6, 2007, at 21:13:02
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older » Bobby, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
> Gee, I've got a long way to go before I can do that.
> I'm very nervous in elevators, looking at the floor number, thinking of terrible conversations I could start with complete strangers, along the lines of...
> "Do you ever feel like we are part of a criminal conspiracy?'
> or
> 'Can you explain projective identification really quickly for me?'this thread has made me laugh so much that i've steamed up my trifocals.......no line ones at that.....i hate them.
i had to get an autofocus camera when i turned 41. i was depressed and in denial for six months. i would have sworn that roll of film was just fine...and then i realized that everyone was very, very fuzzy.....i even went to an opthalmologist and begged him to tell me that i had a "condition" that he could magically cure. he was a friend and he almost rolled on the floor and said "you're old, get over it".......
fayeroe
Posted by Phillipa on July 6, 2007, at 21:40:29
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older, posted by fayeroe on July 6, 2007, at 21:13:02
Seriously I got bifocals in my 50's and spent thousands of dollars as I could not adapt so I got PRK lasix surgury and had the distance corrected to what turned out to be 20/l5. Better than 20/20. I could have had it done for reading only or one eye for reading one for distance but getting used to that is like being drunk as they used a contact like that and I ripped it out as soon as home. What happened was good and bad as I could see imperfections in me and my house and things I'd never seen before but for once I could walk around and not bump into walls as the bifocals and I didn't get along no lines too. I had about l0 pair of prescription ones. Now three years later I'm noticing some blurring I have read that enhancements are needed by older people some early some late I think I need one haven't had my eyes examined for the three years since the surgery. Doesn't hurt at all . One eye at a time. No halos after about two weeks . I think it was $l000 per eye. I was spending more money on bifocals. Best investment I ever made. Seriously consider it as in three years they can do it even easier and probably the price is down. Love Phillipa
Posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2007, at 1:40:41
In reply to Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
They ought to come up with a better name. "Bifocals" sounds so much like orthopedic shoes or something. There must be some high-tech sexy description that would work.
Posted by fayeroe on July 7, 2007, at 8:03:40
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2007, at 1:40:41
i hereby appoint you to rename them. and please don't forget trifocals.......makes me think of trifecta...(sp)
Posted by Poet on July 7, 2007, at 12:04:28
In reply to Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2007, at 14:54:49
Hi Dinah,
My eyes created their own bifocal contact lenses. I see far out of my right eye and close out of my left eye even though my contacts are prescribed only to correct my near sightedness. As my eye doctor says if it works leave it alone. Though I do have those drug store reading glasses for low light and really should have prescription ones. Sigh. I hate getting old. I hate having to wear glasses/contacts since I was 10, too.
Poet
Posted by Kath on July 7, 2007, at 14:11:48
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 15:14:15
Did you like the movie Declan?
Kath
Saw "Shooter" last night with Mark Walberg (I think it's Mark)?
It was really good. (NOT if you can't handle shooting, explosions, & bad people) BUT it was a good plot & very well done. The "Making of Shooter" extra was also really interesting.
How are ya Dec?
luv, Kath
Posted by Sigismund on July 7, 2007, at 15:54:07
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Sigismund, posted by Kath on July 7, 2007, at 14:11:48
Hi Kath
It was fantastic, but had been cut down to 3.5 hours.
So I ordered the 5CD version that was shown on Swedish TV, which must be at least 10 hours long.
There's all this lovely stuff about identity and suffering, like you always get in Bergman, but to make the movie hang together most of that has been taken out.
[I remember the funeral prayer (from over 30 years ago) which no doubt had Scandanavian intellectual jokes.....it was this amazing prayer at the bedside in "Cries and Whispers", and the prayer was essentially an address to God about His relationship to those whom He had abandoned. It had all the cadences of a liturgy, no faith to speak of and a lot of religious sensibility (right up my alley, in fact).]
Fanny and Alexander is like a fairy story with good and evil characters and spiritual powers and ghosts.
I remember seeing Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights". That was the first movie I saw Phillip Seymore Hoffman in.
I've been feeling a bit better lately, thanks Kath.
Posted by Racer on July 7, 2007, at 16:27:37
In reply to one of the benefits of getting older, posted by Bobby on July 6, 2007, at 18:49:55
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:41:30
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older » Bobby, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
lol. That actually sounds like fun. :)
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:42:27
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older, posted by fayeroe on July 6, 2007, at 21:13:02
:)
That's almost exactly what my therapist said. And come to think of it, it was when he was my age.
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:43:51
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2007, at 1:40:41
We'd make a fortune if we could think of a good name and sell it to the eyeglass companies. :)
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:46:20
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Dinah, posted by Poet on July 7, 2007, at 12:04:28
I was thinking of you the other day. How is the new job going?
I was sooo happy to get my glasses, but too vain to wear them all the time. Looking back, I was right. I looked horribly geeky in those awful fifties tip tilted frames. Especially since I wore them in the seventies.
Posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:48:59
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older, posted by Phillipa on July 6, 2007, at 21:40:29
I don't doubt it. My prescription is sooo expensive now. And my frames were too, I guess. I was insistent that this time I was going to get rimless.
So I have a fortune in my distance glasses, and now the bifocals. I was going to refuse to get them, but I can't do my work.
My eye doctor says that I can get laser surgery if my prescription stays stable for a year. However, my prescription has never stayed stable for a year in my entire life.
Last time, I wore my reading glasses all the time, and my eyes actually got stronger!
Posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 19:52:13
In reply to Re: one of the benefits of getting older » Bobby, posted by Sigismund on July 6, 2007, at 20:27:41
>'Do you ever feel like we are part of a criminal conspiracy?'
or
'Can you explain projective identification really quickly for me?'I'd rather a yes and a no, than a no and a yes, and would be really chuffed with a yes and a yes before we reached the 25th floor.
Unless you meant Fanny and Alexander, which was fun too.
The whole thing is on its way....12 hours of Ingmar Bergman!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2007, at 19:58:21
In reply to Re: Gonna have to get bifocals I guess » Poet, posted by Dinah on July 10, 2007, at 17:46:20
I had a pair of sunglasses that had wings on the outer tops in 2 shades of grey.
They were quite odd and I was surprised when I was congratulated for being so defiantly (un)cool.
See, anything can happen.
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