<p>somemom, or that fat-assed cat suit lady that cher played on her t.v. show?</p>
<p>If I don’t buy bifocals soon, my family will get them for me. I wear contacts, but at late at night and early morning I wear my glasses. Usually if I have had a good nights sleep I don’t need my reading glasses until late in the evening. If I want to read I just take my corrective glasses off and I can see fine. Lately with college son home for the summer we are all up way too late at night. I can usually be found wearing my corrective glasses with my reading glasses over them! My family just laughs and calles me 6 eyes!! I see no reason to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on bifocals when I would only uses them an hour or two in the evening. It’s not like I am leaving the house wearing two pairs of glasses. As long as I am still in contacts I will continue with my double glasses look in the evening. Let them laugh; I’m glad I can keep them entertained!</p>
<p>somemom, yes you will have to do the upsweep and probably change your name to Yetta.</p>
<p>alu - could we call it a “myoparita?”</p>
<p>LOL. I like both myoparita and 20/so. And my reading glasses are cat eyes, one pair is tiger striped and one is black with rhinestones. I wear them on a chain around my neck that I also get at the drugstore. But my hair is still Carly Fiorina-esque, no red upsweep for me. I just pretend that I WANT to wear these glasses.</p>
<p>I love the story of the six-eyes Sib. With me it is sunglasses and reading glasses alternating and sometimes I have to wear both. How hath the mighty fallen. Geez.</p>
<p>Pokey,</p>
<p>Can you post a picture with your 6 eyes. Imagine what your kids are saying about you behind your back :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I wear my glases out in the street because I cannot see distance. I take them off to read and to work. I know that I am definitely not ready for bifocals. This year I got new glasses. My perscription changed, so went I walked outside after putting on my new glasses, I felt so short as it seemed like the sidewalk went wooosh, up to my face. I felt weak at the knees and would take off my glasses to walk the dog.</p>
<p>I take off my glasses every time I come down to the alley so everything is a big blur. That way, I never know if I have been drinking too much. No behive hair, as a matter of fact very little hair because I have it cut every2 weeks. I don;t have the energy to chase away the grey hairs I see slowly cropping up so I cut them off at the pass.</p>
<p>Pokey, hahaha! 
I do that, too, but I usually alternate my glasses between the top of my forehead and under my chin. Basically, I look like somebody hurled a handful of glasses at me and a couple of them stuck. I let a savvy salesperson talk me into an expensive pair of trifocals. After a month of blur-vision and walking around like the village idiot, I traded them in for a distance pair, a computer pair, and a reading pair. </p>
<p>I don’t think that any living thing has evolved to actually wear bi/tri/focals. They’re evil, and my feeble orb didn’t have the brain power to make all of the mental jumps into hyperspace before I ran into solid objects. I knew that it was time to deep-six the trifocals when I started feeling my way around my own house, and I could see much better without them. </p>
<p>My drugstore reading glasses are somewhere between 1.25 and 2.0 megajewels. Who cares about the correct maginification when it’s the style that counts? My favorite pair is black with puffy paint flowers around the edge, and a bauble chain adds to the eccentric, artsy look. My prescription pair makes me look like I am aware that 1980 has passed. My children celebrated when Dh replaced his 1988 Raybans, the sun glasses equivalent of a 1957 Chrysler DeSoto. They were his favorite car driving and snow skiing glasses, and he held onto them until other motorists began to point at him during stop lights. </p>
<p>I gave up on my hair style this year because the hair Nazis were charging a fortune for color, highlights, and a cut. I couldn’t believe it when some woman who looked worse than I did showed up and announced that she was my colorist, a separate entity with her own prices. Plus, I was ready to run out of there screaming after being held prisoner for 4 hours! </p>
<p>At least, my glasses are cool. 
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<p>Strabiz Fizz, Myopic Tropic, Floaters & Spots, Macular Shooters :)</p>
<p>sluggbugg, As I type my glasses are on my forehead! It’s Saturday and I’m not leaving the house until much later today so no contacts for a few hours. The reading glasses sit on the computer table until the eues get tired, then they will go on over the regular pair. And who said I have no taste in fashion?</p>
<p>Anyone else tempted to get lasix? I’ve been waiting… In Calif, I’d often be wearing sunglasses when I need glasses-- driving, tennis, etc. And I don’t mind being a mite blurry at home, with no glasses. </p>
<p>I’d been thinking I’d wait on lasix till I needed more than one pair of glasses-- which is now. </p>
<p>How about correcting one eye far and one near; anyone tried that? Is it weird?</p>
<p>PS love sluggbugg’s drink names…</p>
<p>I’m really skittish about the idea of having lasix done… the details creep me out. But the result, should it work properly, are quite nifty.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’m now making arrangements to have both knees reconstructed later this fall. Having no ACL in one knee and “feathery” ACL in the other leads me to this action while I can still motivate myself to do the physical therapy appropriately and enjoy the results. (I don’t want to get to age 75 and blow them out suddenly and either have emergency surgery or be told, “Oh, sorry, you’re too old, you’ll just have to make do.”) Anybody have bionic new knees they’d like to share stories about?</p>
<p>Did I wander into the Health Clinic when I thought I was in Sinner’s Alley?? Is this that Optometrist’s Office next door to my regular bar??!?
I didn’t think my eyes were <em>that</em> bad…</p>
<p>Anyway, re correcting one eye for near and one for far… That was suggested to me 2 years before I tried it. It seemed so ridiculous. Instead I went with the progressive glasses, with similar results to whoever talked about trifocals - blurry everything, felt like the ground was at my waist level, etc. etc. So, when a second eye doctor suggested the “monovision” approach (that’s what they call it), I went for it. Has worked great for me. I wear a contact lens in my right (stronger) eye for distance. Took almost no time to get used to it - each eye plays its own role and you don’t realize it at all. I actually don’t need anything for reading, so I only have the one contact. Most people have two (one distance, one near) - so, even though I am the elder stateswoman on cc, I can still read upclose very well, thank-you-very-much. Doctor says I may never need to correct for reading, but if I do, it will be a different contact lens for the left eye.</p>
<p>I’d love to have lasix. But, after driving my husband home after HIS lasix surgery and hearing all of the gory details (which he does not remember telling me due to the effects of being out of his gord on the double dose of valium they had to give him to calm him down before the procedure), I think I’ll pass…</p>
<p>However, I am growing increasingly frustrated by my failing vision for reading. I tried the bifocal glasses with the invisible edges and all they did was give me a headache. I’m seriously thinking about getting separate pairs of glasses like Pokey…but the thought of hauling them around everywhere, well, it’s tiring. :)</p>
<p>Guess it’s too late to start drinking carrot juice.</p>
<p>By the way, lasix worked great for my husband - he went from not being able to walk across a room without glasses his entire life to being totally glasses free.</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to mention that Amanda managed to eat half a slice of birthday cake last night. Took her nearly two hours using a very small infant spoon to get the cake in, and she broke one of the wires on her braces, but she was happy. :)</p>
<p>Carolyn:
Congrats to Amanda both on her birthday and on being able to eat cake!
I gave new meaning to “bumping into someone” when I, astigmatic as I am, nearly was on top of good friends in the street before I could make their features out clearly enough to acknowledge them. Before that, I was wondering who it was that was waving their hands at me 
And I was wearing progressive lenses :(</p>
<p>Hey slugg, can you send the Ray-ban frames to Texas?I’ll give them a good home. I have a black pair and a tortoise shell pair and would happily add a third. I’m so unfashionable 1988 would be trendy for me. (Tell me my little friend here ain’t wearing Ray-bans. The essence of “cool” in any decade.)</p>
<p>Ray Bans (Wayfarers, I presume?) are never out of style. I love mine. I also have a pair of very similar frames done up as regular glasses. Very Elvis Costello.</p>
<p>Well, as long as we are discussing this… I wear bifocals on top of contacts. The contacts are for normal/distance wear. The bifocals are for reading close / reading computer. When my contacts are not in, then I revert to the monovision mode – left eye for reading, right eye for watching tv & distance. (But if you are driving on the same road as me, you will be happy to know I am wearing the contact lenses – the uncorrected, monovision distance mode is not really good enough for speeding down the highway.)</p>
<p>Its all very tricky and my optometrist is rich.</p>
<p>On another sensory note, I insisted on having my hearing tested this week after I noticed that I can’t hear what is being said when I hold my cell phone to my left ear, but can hear fine when it is held to my right ear. With a little bit of experimentation, I discovered that sounds emanating from small electronic devices are always louder if held up to my right ear than my left. My doctor has now confirmed that my left ear is weaker than my right, but apparently not enough to be significant. She says the issue is more like I have really good hearing in my right ear, than poor hearing in the left. So I guess the trick is to figure out how to turn up the volume on the cell phone. (This does explain why I don’t really like listening to things with head sets, though – everything always sounds off balance).</p>
<p>And anything Elvis Costello-like is ipso facto a good thing.</p>
<p>Anyone remember that Broadway show from the '60s, “You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running”? I knew nothing about it except it’s name, which I thought was pretty stupid.</p>
<p>No more.</p>
<p>I have discovered that if I am standing near a source of running water, I indeed can’t really hear things that people say to me. This did not used to be the case, I’m sure. (Or did I just forget?)</p>
<p>OK, let’s get back to drinking. A little Madeira tonight, I think.</p>
<p>Ummm… I think I preferred the bladder infection discussion :eek:</p>