New glasses

[rhu]

So, I picked up my new glasses this morning.

It used to be that "new glasses day" was wonderful. After a few years of day-by-day incrmental degredation of my eyesight, I'd put on the new glasses and be overcome with awe at how bright, how clear, how engaging the world was. It was like a re-birthday.

And after a few days, I'd realize how less tired I was because I wasn't straining as much to see.

Not today. My first bifocals, and so the overall effect is that things that used to be a little blurry are now a lot blurry, presumably because (for example) I'm mow looking at my computer screen through the distance portion of the lens, since I haven't learned to hold my head differently yet. And even when I tilt my head, it's not jumping out with that preternatural sharpness that I always associate with "new classes day".

Bleh.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

You'll get used to it after a while.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I know I will. But getting used to it will be a gradual process, and I miss the joy of that revelatory moment.

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean --about new glasses, that is, haven't hit the bifokes yet-- it happened the last time got new glasses without changing Rx. Amazing what the world looks like when you're not looking through grease and scratches!

I really do wonder if things look like that all the time to normal-visioned people.

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

i will chalk up the two typos to the adjustment period.

i'm not looking forward to bifocals, because i worry about the whole holding-your-head-differently thing being yet another cause of headaches. also, i fear change.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Typos? Whrt tipos?

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I hear you! I started struggling with my vision about three years ago, have had three different docs give me three different scrips, and they all did NOT work (one was bifocal... I struggled with those for almost a year, constantly hearing "you'll get used to it" and it never happened). The final experience was three hours of testing by an optometrist who came highly recommended, and one who apparently loves the "hard cases." He tested, and retested, and tested once again. He wrote four different scrips over that period, and finally settled on what I'm wearing now... not bifocals.

Good luck in your transition!

[cellio]

I hear you. It takes me close to a week to adjust to a new pair of glasses. I don't think it always did. :-(

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

I love my bifocals, and can wear them for driving and just about everything else except the computer. I still wear my reading glasses for that.

They did take a couple of weeks to get used to at first.