Squinty Average Jane

I spend a lot of time on the computer. A lot. And lately I've been noticing my face doing something weird from time to time. I'll be reading something online or playing a game and all of a sudden, I'm grimacing as if I'm in pain.

It took a while for me to stop and think about it, but when I finally did I realized that what was actually happening is that I was squinting.

Yes, as though this latest birthday has flipped another switch in the age-related breakdown control panel, I think the time has come for me to get...reading glasses. [Heavy sigh.]

My eyesight is absolutely terrible. I've been severely nearsighted and astigmatic since childhood. Without my glasses or contacts, I can only focus about an inch in front of my eyes. If I try to read a book sans correction, my nose hits the page before the words get clear.

That's really been my only problem until now. However, I've known this was coming because my eye doctor has been almost gleefully foreshadowing my eventual need for reading glasses and/or bifocals ever since I turned forty. He and my dentist should get together and have a doomsaying party.

So I've made an appointment with the eye doctor to see what needs to be done. I don't want to run around with reading glasses on a beaded chain like someone's granny, but I may have no other choice. At least it's better than developing new forehead wrinkles from squinching up my face. That's what I tell myself anyway.

Photo credit: Lunasmom

Comments

[Florinda]

My eyesight is probably even worse than yours, although the description of yours sounds awfully familiar. I've been wearing (non-prescription) reading glasses over my contacts for a few years now...and I've been over forty for a few years too. Coincidence? I think not :-).

Good luck with the eye doctor!

[zenzonechick]

Just get some cute, chic ones and say 'the hell with it'. Make it look retro ;)

[kathy]

Your eye doctor might have some options for you - they make several brands of bifocal contact lenses now. I tried a couple years ago, but just couldn't seem to see clearly with them. Now I have one eye corrected for reading & one for distance. Not ideal, as neither is fully corrected for distance - too big a difference between them and everything seems to be less clear all the time. I'm just trying to delay the granny glasses over contacts! Be sure to update us on what you end up doing.

[book publishers]

Just get some cute, chic ones and say 'the hell with it'. Make it look retro ;)

[Spyder]

I did the contacts with reading glasses route. Now I just do glasses with bifocals.