I bought reading glasses today

Hi Laura i was about the same age maybe a bit older, but the fact your on the comp all the time dosen't help, but your showing your age now Laura oh deary me ! :-D only joking !

 

Well, in order to keep peace and harmony here on this topic, I won't make any wisecracks about eyesight fading as one reaches the 'Golden Years':-D Mine started to go South in the mid to late forties, and now that I'm in the 'Platnium Years' it's time for the cataracts to get taken care of. Once that's done Laura, my eyes can join yours in the 'Golden Years.'roflmaoroflmao So, don't look on getting reading glasses as getting older....but look at it as 'maturing.'

 

When I was 5, I was born with my eyes this way. Most days I just wear contacts though.

 

I'm the opposite of near-sighted. I can see great if you put things really far away from me.

 

Ya, 40 is about the age when reading glasses are needed. My dad didn't need any until he was 70, I'm not sure if that was because he was a farm boy or genetics. He never needed lenses for distance.

 

Oh, Laura, you will get used to them in time.. I have been wearing glasses since I was about 6. All the time. Day in, day out. year after year. I never got contacts, can't stand to stick anything in my eyes.. rolleyes

Now, I have glaucoma. Go figure.....rolleyes Glasses didn't stop me from getting that. If it is inherited, I have no idea from where. :confused

Just for reading, tho Laura, should be easy to get used too.

 

If it makes you feel any better, I got my first pair of bifocals when I was 23.

 

it was 44 for me but if you were to subtract 2 years of constant nagging by the misses and finally my arms just weren't long enough to hold the paper away from my face so i gave up and got reading glasses.

 

Gee Laura, I feel old having to wear reading glasses at 50!:-o Never needed them before, now I need +1.00 to read fine print, like on pill bottles and some recipe tins. Come to think of it, that fine print never was easy to read.

I'm ticked off because I lost my first, (permanent) tooth, so I don't take getting old too gracefully at times, lol! Ah well, no wrinkles yet, though I found my first grey hair, grrr!LOL

 

Time to worry when you need two hands to clean your teeth (false) and your pubes go grey

 

I've had glasses / contacts since Jr. High. I wore contacts, but last year bought glasses & decided I don't look half bad, if I say so myself.

I had a hole in my ear drum when I was a teenager, (Kids, never jump off of a Jet Ski at speed) and having even minor hearing problems, I think was way worse than eye problems. There's no pain involved when your eyes start to go.. Though, I could have caused the pain in my ear I suppose. LOL

 

Oh yes and your memory goes??? :cry have i just been up stairs or have i just come down :confused
OMG where's my hearing aid

 

dont feel too bad. im 22 and i cant see for crap. probably because i sit in front of a computer all day or something.

 

There ya go!:-D

 

20*20 vision at 42yrs. Who can say for how long.
Still using a hand to brush all the teeth :-D Turning grey.. errm not an issue :-D
Laura with luck and donning the specs may return the vision. You've only just hit prime age after all
Cheers..

 

Thanks for the info, Halo. I have what they call "Low Pressure Glaucoma" and have had laser surgery once already, on both eyes. Whether it is Open or Closed, I don't know.. I do know they did the laser to open the channels rolleyes

No, it didn't make any sense to me at the time, but I do keep my appointments.. rolleyes My Eye Dr. is also very good and knowledgeable, and he keeps tabs on me.. No Diabetes, or Hypertension, and don't know what the family history is, :confused so just take it one day at a time, and do what the Docs say....

 

I got mine in my mid-forties. I've always done crossword puzzles, especially when I use to travel. I remember cursing silently at the newspaper companies for reducing the size of the print.

Then on day at a drugstore trade show I was wandering the floor and came upon an eyeglass exhibit. I casually picked up a pair and voila! I realized then and there for the first time that it wasn't the newspaper at fault, it was me.

I went out that very evening and purchased my first pair. Now I can't read anything without them under a 14 font.

By the way, I buy mine at a dollar store. I've got glassed everywhere, in my office, car, and about 4 pair laying around the house.

 

Excuses Excuses, don,t be blaming the contacts just face it, when age kicks in the glasses come out , and the teeth at night ! :-D
Laura to KingSteve "Omg! You're, like, really young".:-D
Laura, he,s just a little puppy isn't he ! :-D

 

hopefully never, I got 15-20 vision but I do have ear problems so it sorta evens out :-D

My doc said and I quote "you have better than perfect vision" not bragging or anything

 

Did you say " pardon what was that you said " :-D !

 

woof? :booger

 

Hiya KS isn't that a little childish of you ! :-D:-D

 

That's great Laura that you feel good! Just think how much better you could feel once you get those gray hairs under control:-D

 

Hey Stubby, who said anything about gray hairs? I think Laura was talking about reading glasses..... Do you have a few gray hairs? Hmmmm roflmao roflmao

 

Gray hairs? Me? Hell no!! I got rid of them long ago...I did the natural thing....I went baldroflmaoroflmao

 

Well, I earned all of mine, and am not afraid to show them..

 

I can relate. I have had glasses since second grade . . . Now, I'm on my second set of bifocals . . . sigh.

Sucks to get old . . . and the older I get the faster time seems to go. I have a theory on why that is. The fact is I am over the hill, thus I am now going downhill and picking up speed! :-D

 

Laura if you need glasses check your eyes out with this :-D Ooooh ! Makes me all dizzy i feel ukeOoooooooooooooooH !!

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