Tuesday, May 4, 2021

IWSG: "Progressive" Bifocals

 


    Ugh.

    I've actually had these new glasses for over a month, but I stopped wearing them entirely within a few days...only it took me a month to get up the nerve to call the optician's to see if I could get some other arrangement going to allow me to see properly.

    I kinda got a serious lecture out of it. :(  And I sorta promised I'd wear them for a week without switching back to my old glasses to try and get used to them.

    Which means I basically can't write now, because I can't read the computer screen.  I mean, I can kind of read it, but I keep having to shift my head around up and down because the "sweet spot" moves every time I blink.  And even when it's lined up right, it's still...it's hard to describe the problem, but do you know how it is when you're at the eye doctor and they're doing the "better 1 or better 2" thing and one of them is just off even though you can't quite pin down what's wrong with it?  It's like that.  Only it's what I've got.  And just looking at the screen long enough to write this far has already made my eyes hurt a lot.

    So although my writing had been doing a little bit okay, it's now about to drop off a freaking cliff until I can get these glasses sorted out.

    I want smart glasses that change the prescription on the whole lens to suit the distance of what you're looking at, darn it!  Or at least ones that have three settings which you can change at the touch of a button.  It shouldn't be that hard to do, should it?   (I'd settle for having my magnetic sunglasses' lenses replaced with reading or intermediate level lenses, too.  That wouldn't be as easy, but it would work better than this catastrophe!)


    Anyway, due to the stupid glasses thing, I'm posting this about six hours early.  Sorry.  I don't want to have to deal with this again so soon.