bifocals

[truepenny]

Got 'em yesterday.

They solve the problem of being unable to read with glasses on, but introduce a whole exciting host of new problems, the principal one being that, apparently, when moving I don't look up, or even straight ahead. I look down. And I'm over-correcting now by not merely looking in a more upward direction but by raising my eyebrows into a frown, as if my eyeballs need to be winched up or something. I imagine this foolishness will resolve as I get more used to the new regime, but just at the moment I'm giving myself headaches and feeling generally a little visually disoriented.

The bifocals are, I think, going to turn out to be the right decision, but I've got to get the new protocols to compile first.

Comments

[sdn.livejournal.com]

which kind do you have? the gradated kind, or the kind that's just an inset piece?

signed, have worn bifocals since age 3

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The inset. My particular eye problems mandate against the gradated kind.

It was funny how cautious everyone was being of my vanity--the technician assuring me that I probably didn't need bifocals at all, the ophthalmologist telling me I could choose to just continue to take my glasses off to see things up close, the optometrist *assuming* I wanted the gradated kind that don't show up. Nobody ever came right out and said anything (so I couldn't reassure them that, really, I couldn't care less), but the subtext was there.

(Secretly, I think my bifocals look really cool.)

[larryhammer]

(They probably do.)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Yes, grown-up glasses!

Seems I had it easy with my graduated varifocals, then - but the downside is, it seems to play against either half being quite as strong as it should be. I'm sure it'll all be worth it in the end.