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Interests => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: vesta111 on April 05, 2010, 12:34:52 PM
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After almost 4 weeks my brand new glasses finally arrived.
My old ones finally broke about 18 months ago and I made due with magnifying glasses from the drug store all these months.
I should be jumping for joy but I had forgotten all about how long it took me to get use to my old 2X progressive lens.
I paid big bucks for these darn things 3X progressive, no line, trifocals with anti glare built in for night driving.
Like an idiot I tried to walk about the mall for 30 minutes or so, I fell over my feet, ran into walls and plate glass windows.
There was a huge mirrored wall at one point that I stopped at and looked at a complete stranger dressed just like me. For the first time in 18 months I could see clearly what I looked like. Gross, strange,-- I could see I was in desperate need for a hair cut, the scars on my face where the Doctor chopped me up for cancer were really standing out, my skin from being out of the sun so long looked pasty white and with no make up, good grief.
Worse was entering my house and seeing all the cobwebs and marks on the wall light switches. Geeze, my worse nightmare is to be blind but being able to see too well now comes in second.
About these Progressive lens, there is no side sight and I am sure to get a sore neck from learning to automatically adjust my head for all three progressions.
The absolutely most disappointing thing for me however is that the glasses are just like the ones Sara Polin wears and by golly I don't look even the tinyest bit like her. BWWWWWWWWWW
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There's nothing a good pair of glasses when you've done without for so long.Here's looking at you :cheersmate:
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Hang in there. Takes a while for the brain to adjust to what the eyes are seeing. Congratulations on your new specs!
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It will get better in a few days, as you know. In the meantime, be careful and don't hurt yourself, particularly going up and down stairs.