I'm going blind!

Pepper · Jul 16, 2009

Yaaaaayyyy!

Oh. Wait. You want me to explain? Ok....

I went to the optometrist yesterday because I've been noticing my eyesight slowly getting worse. Well, huzzah! I'm apparently short-sighted. Not enough to be legally required to wear glasses while driving, but apparently life will be better with a pair of specs perched on my beak.

The only reason I'm happy is because my man has a fetish for the whole "sexy librarian" image.

Too much info? Shutup. I know the sort of things Peaches says.

KTC · Jul 16, 2009

holy. i wish i had that problem. i've been going to the optometrist every year or so for about 35 years. every single time the prescription is stronger. i'm in my early forties and i wear bi-focals. the doctor made what i thought was a joke about me being legally blind the last time i saw him. i said, 'good one'. he said, 'no. really. without glasses...you would be.' i have to reach to put them on when i wake up in the morning. i only see shadows and blobs without them. i can't even read the alarm clock that is about a foot away from me and has huge red numbers. i'm afraid that at this rate i will be totally blind before my life runs out.

Pepper · Jul 16, 2009

That sucks KTC! If it makes you feel any better, I'm younger than you and I've already started with the eye issues. The optometrist reckons I should check in every year- crappy eyesight runs in the family.

Ugawa · Jul 16, 2009

Hey, count yourselves lucky. I'm seventeen and can't even make out people's faces from the other side of the road... I haven't had my eyes tested yet, though. I think I should. lol

x

Pepper · Jul 16, 2009

Welcome to the short-sighted club!

jilly61 · Jul 16, 2009

I'm almost blind in one eye and live in fear of the other one packing in.

Ugawa · Jul 16, 2009

Pepper said:
Welcome to the short-sighted club!

Lol. Thank you.
x

robeiae · Jul 16, 2009

KTC said:
holy. i wish i had that problem.

You wish your man had a fetish for the "sexy librarian" image?

Chin up, bucko. I do...

Cranky · Jul 16, 2009

KTC said:
holy. i wish i had that problem. i've been going to the optometrist every year or so for about 35 years. every single time the prescription is stronger. i'm in my early forties and i wear bi-focals. the doctor made what i thought was a joke about me being legally blind the last time i saw him. i said, 'good one'. he said, 'no. really. without glasses...you would be.' i have to reach to put them on when i wake up in the morning. i only see shadows and blobs without them. i can't even read the alarm clock that is about a foot away from me and has huge red numbers. i'm afraid that at this rate i will be totally blind before my life runs out.

That's me without my specs, too, and I'm only in my early thirties. I've been wearing glasses or contacts since I was eight. Unless I can manage to get lasik surgery done, I'll probably be wearing bifocals and then trifocals inside a decade.

NeuroFizz · Jul 16, 2009

Cataracts are the gift of the elderly romantic = permanent beer goggles.

quickWit · Jul 16, 2009

Pepper said:
That sucks KTC! If it makes you feel any better, I'm younger than you...

Oh yes, I'm sure that's much better now.

Pepper · Jul 16, 2009

quickWit said:
Oh yes, I'm sure that's much better now.

Smart ass

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Pepper said:
I'm younger than you and I've already started with the eye issues.

quickWit · Jul 16, 2009

Picky, picky.

robeiae · Jul 16, 2009

And Quicky's not actually smart...

Angie · Jul 16, 2009

Cranky said:
That's me without my specs, too, and I'm only in my early thirties. I've been wearing glasses or contacts since I was eight. Unless I can manage to get lasik surgery done, I'll probably be wearing bifocals and then trifocals inside a decade.

Ditto, even the part about wearing glasses since I was 8. I have moderate-to-severe astigmatism and until recently could not wear contacts because they bothered my eyes so bad. But when they came out with the thinner "hydrating" contacts I started wearing them and refuse to go back to my glasses. When I put my glasses on now (because of the difference in refraction between a lens on the eye and a lens an inch or so away from the eye), it feels like looking through a fishbowl for the first couple of days and I get screaming headaches. So I only wear them in dire emergencies, such as eye irritations or -gasp- running out of contacts (which doesn't happen often).

Angie · Jul 16, 2009

robeiae said:
And Quicky's not actually smart...

But he is definitely an ass.

quickWit · Jul 16, 2009

robeiae said:
And Quicky's not actually smart...

am 2

cray · Jul 16, 2009

quickWit · Jul 16, 2009

Angie said:
But he is definitely a piece of ass.

Thanks, Angie. That's sweet.

robeiae · Jul 16, 2009

cray said:

NeuroFizz · Jul 16, 2009

cray said:

It takes the lotion...

Bmwhtly · Jul 16, 2009

Pepper said:
The only reason I'm happy is because my man has a fetish for the whole "sexy librarian" image.

I don't think it counts as a fetish if every man has it.

Haggis · Jul 16, 2009

NeuroFizz said:
It takes the lotion...

spamwarrior · Jul 16, 2009

My eyesight hasn't changed for 5 years... but I'm pretty nearsighted and it's not fun when I'm not wearing glasses.

DL Hegel · Jul 16, 2009

sometimes not being able to see some faces at a distance is a blessing...

..take the annoying rabbit for instance, he looks much better blurry.

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