duane v Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 All these years I've been bragging about my great vision, the beast of a Optometrist prescribed me glasses today[angry] ..... I've been calling my daughter 4-eyes for seven years[blush] ....... Guess I'm screwed when my glasses are ready[biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Contacts brah, I got em never looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 All these years I've been bragging about my great vision' date=' the beast of a Optometrist prescribed me glasses today[angry'] ..... I've been calling my daughter 4-eyes for seven years[blush] ....... Guess I'm screwed when my glasses are ready[biggrin] LOL! Karma's a beyotch sometimes; ain't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! WOO - HOO!!! STOPITSTOPITSTOPITSTOPITSTOPIT!!! Hahahahahaha...... [crying]/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ Ahhhh..... Eh, yeah, I broke down and bought my first pair of reading glasses just a few months ago. This is only three years after Mrs. Neo threw away her glasses after laser eye surgery. Looks like my day is coming too. Says I look like Santa Claus with the blue eyes and reading glasses. WTF? Fantastic vision all my life, same as both my parents until their mid forties.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmurray Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 It happens to the best of us Duane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Well... It's time for me to update my prescription 'cuz it doesn't really work any more. I don't "need" them for driving or normal "outside" activities but to read anything in less than 36 point type on paper or to comfortably work at the computer I use reading glasses. As for your daughter, D... <chortle> As has been said, Karma.... My little bro. did the laser eye surgery to get his vision from 20-2000 or whatever horrid thing it was that forced him into really thick lenses in the olden days. But he hits 60 this fall and uses reading glasses just like me. I never teased him, though, 'cuz I wore glasses until the 6th grade and in the 1950s they really were horrid looking things that had me embarrassed all the time. Li'l sis wore the "cat eye" things 'cuz they then were in style. Seriously... if one can read, it's preferable to the alternative. I have a lady friend who's off work a while with some sort of bubble put into her eye to get some vision back. She's s'posed to keep her face down to let this bubble push on the retina and... Sheesh... OTOH, all hail vision. It's wonderful to be able to see, and it's a miracle we don't appreciate until we haven't been able to. Been there, done that, and I feel terribly lucky that providence has seen fit to see that I can see... m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Just wait til you have to get bifocals.... then you'll be Six-Eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Just wait til you have to get bifocals.... then you'll be Six-Eyes! That what I'm getting[blush] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwness Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 I had great vision all my life then the mid 40's hit and it's been downhill ever since. Tried to blame it on the computer but Doc set me straight. Her words face it your getting OLD. Been OLD ever since. Shot down in my prime. LOL CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Yeah, Karen... <grin> I got the line-less bifocals and they never really worked so in spite of more cash than I wanna think about I went back to no glasses for driving and the $1 reading glasses for reading. <grin> Hmmmm. It do make one wonder. As for getting old... Most of the time it seems somewhat preferable to the alternative. Most of the time. But heck, I figured I'd be gone by 50. I was wrong. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Don't sweat the bifocals. I've had progressive lenses for 3 or 4 years and never had a bit of problem adjusting to them. Some will tell you horror stories about getting sick or bumping into things but none of that happened to me. My eyes aren't that bad, but since my last license renewal I'm restricted to them. I have much more trouble reading up close, and my handwriting has gone completely to poo. I attributed that to typing more and writing less, but fact is, I can't see what I'm writing! If I use a $7 pair of reading glasses, I can write fine. My mother told me, don't ever get old. I never listened to a word that woman said. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevef Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Here practice, practice, practice, then go for a re-test.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 So the doctor asked me to read the sixth line of the eye chart. I told him I could read the bottom line of the eye chart. He didn't believe me, and stepped closer to the chart to prove me wrong. I told him it says; M... A... D... E... I... N... C... H... I... N... A.... Took him a minute to figure it out. [cool]/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Just wait til you have to get bifocals.... then you'll be Six-Eyes! That what I'm getting[blush] Since NeoConMan has obviously fallen to the floor and can't get up' date=' I'll help. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! WOO - HOO!!! STOPITSTOPITSTOPITSTOPITSTOPIT!!! Hahahahahaha...... :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/ Ahhhh..... times Eleventy million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 So the doctor asked me to read the sixth line of the eye chart. I told him I could read the bottom line of the eye chart. He didn't believe me' date=' and stepped closer to the chart to prove me wrong. I told him it says; M... A... D... E... I... N... C... H... I... N... A.... Took him a minute to figure it out. [biggrin']/ I gotta try that.... I hope I remember it in 22 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 So I'm minding my own business extracting today's postal deliveries. I am now on AARP's radar. I turn 50 this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevef Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 So the doctor asked me to read the sixth line of the eye chart. I told him I could read the bottom line of the eye chart. He didn't believe me' date=' and stepped closer to the chart to prove me wrong. I told him it says; M... A... D... E... I... N... C... H... I... N... A.... Took him a minute to figure it out. [biggrin']/ Tommy Lee Jones in Space Cowboys, runs the chart to the "made in" line. Then you get Donald Sutherland, blind as a bat and memorized the whole chart.. Funny scene.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 AARP? Tommy, you're gonna need a bigger mailbox. I remember how pissed my Mom was when they started the bulk-mail blizzard to her address... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swleary Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 nothing wrong with glasses....I think they make a person look more smart ...I wear reading glasses and I don't mind how i look with them Now chicks with glasses....omg that's hot hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 AARP?Tommy' date=' you're gonna need a bigger mailbox. I remember how pissed my Mom was when they started the bulk-mail blizzard to her address...[/quote'] My wife finds it hysterical. Me? I wanna tell her, "You're time's comin' sister." But, I know better'n to open that can of ointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 In my youth I was able to squint by for my astronaut exam (the flight surgeons didn't give the eye exam so I was able to fool the intern who really wasn't paying attention). Didn't make the cut though for other reasons. I got no hope of fulfilling my dream now though because my eyes are really bad now. But did I get some good news and bad news. So I went in for my yearly eye exam and the doctor tells me that my vision is actually getting better!! I said "that's great news" to which he replied "well, not really, it means your eyes are getting 'harder' and you may need reading glasses soon!" My time is coming. I'm going to try the trick of having one lens less focused than the other. So one eye will adjust for nearside and the other will adjust for farside. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. BTW, I have a close friend who is an eye surgeon; she's actually a specialist, i.e. see gets all the really bad patients. She told me to be careful with laser surgery, especially if your eyes are very bad. They'll need to get in deep, which can cause problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Friend of mine, his wife was quite an example. After Mrs. Neo did the laser surgery, and sprang back like a boomerang, she decided to do try it. Her eyes were horrible, they had to do some doctor shopping to find the "right" one - in Dallas, Texas. She had to have a follow-up surgery, and all sorts of complications, a year-long ordeal. Hard to judge with her though, hypochondria and drama are her two strong suits..... This was all the more confirmed when Mrs. Neo had a hysterectomy. She was warned how awful, devastating, horrific, emotionally-wrenching the recovery would from my friend's wife. She had barely survived the operation herself years before, and was borderline homocidal/suicidal for two years. Mrs. Neo was cleaning house a couple days later. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Well Duane what's next the dentist going to tell you that you are going to need brace, so then you can be called railroad teeth?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 So I'm minding my own business extracting today's postal deliveries. I am now on AARP's radar. I turn 50 this month. LMAO!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Only 50? Hell, you're still an adolescent. <chortle> BTW, AARP apparently gave up on me. Ain't heard from 'em in ages. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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