New glasses (196/365)

[white_hart]

I picked up my new glasses yesterday lunchtime. I'm very pleased to have my close vision back, and the new glasses also make it obvious how much my distance vision had deteriorated. It's also reassuring to discover that new varifocals don't seem to require the adjustment period my first pair needed.

I also have special glasses for using my computer. It's definitely easier to see my screen with them, but I'm currently finding it quite difficult to work out how to manage with two different pairs of glasses and having to change over every time I want to do something that isn't on the screen*. At the moment I'm leaving the other pair in the open case next to me so I can swap them over as needed; I did wonder about putting the other pair on my head, but apart from the fact that that would make me look like Professor Branestawm I spend a lot of my working time wearing a headset and I'm not sure how easy it would be to fit glasses and a headset onto my head.

(Of course, it's made even harder at the moment by the fact that when I'm in the office, most of the things that require changing glasses - leaving my office for whatever reason, turning round to talk to someone who's popped in - also require putting on a face covering, so that makes two things I need to do rather than one. This may explain why I've managed to leave my office without my face covering twice in the last two days, both times only realising when I was on the way back to my office after doing whatever it was I was planning to do. Fortunately there are still very few people in so the chances of bumping into people in the corridor are practically nil.)

*I can read documents and see to write notes through them, at least, though I wouldn't want to use them to read a book and everything further away from the screen is blurry

Comments

[antisoppist]

When I went a couple of years ago, the optician said "it's just age. you just need reading glasses" but it's a pity age does it to everybody whether they are used to wearing glasses or not. I am probably at the point where I need more than reading glasses but I don't have stereo vision anyway and when wearing my reading glasses, I find I tend to keep one eye shut, and I feel dizzy if I move my head when wearing them so I'm not sure I could cope! I need a magnifying monocle like Lord Peter Wimsey.

[alithea]

I think you need to see an optician, pretty sure trying to look at your computer screen in reading glasses should not be making you feel sick! Hope you manage to get it sorted