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

[kaberett]

Hmm. Perhaps some kind of glasses stand? and/or you could put both of them on the necklacey things...

[sfred]

Happy new glasses!

[antisoppist]

I revise documents on paper and write all over them and then type my edits in on screen. This is becoming very difficult because I now need reading glasses for the paper part but not for the computer (this is mainly because I have enlarged the font sizes on everything) and the whole thing has become unworkable because I can't see what I am typing in. Wearing the reading glasses to look at the computer makes me feel sick. Sometimes I have my reading glasses on the end of my nose and look over the top at the screen but that makes me a bit queasy too. Sorry for my rant but I am 2 days behind on a 115-page manuscript because of this. Obviously I need to go and talk to an optician.

Perhaps you need one frame with different flip-up lenses like the clocks man on The Repair Shop has. But you would still look like Professor Brainstawm, or a person who repairs clocks.

No, that would only work if you could wear the lenses on top of each other. Damn.

[serriadh]

I'm glad the glasses work for your vision, even they are posing practical problems.

I have a similar issue with sunglasses - I always remember about June-ish that a) I tolerate bright light really badly and b) I have prescription sunglasses which I could wear, but then follows tedious months of taking two pairs everywhere and having to swap everytime I go inside, etc. (I have tried the ones that change automatically but they stayed shaded all the time inside and I hated it.)

I suspect really I need permanently lightly-shaded ones (perhaps blue) but I worry that has similar Professor Branestawm and/or fey serial killer vibes.

[alithea]

Congrats on the new glasses :)

I need to get some varifocals and some prescription sunglasses once I have the budget for them - I have to have my reading glasses perched on the end of my nose if I want to read my phone or knit and watch TV at the same time, and if I want to read in the garden, I have to choose between glare and eye strain :(

[jinty]

Sympathies, I have also had similar glasses-related confusion and hassle in recent years. It is something you eventually get used to in one way or another but aaargh until you do.