Glasses
Posted By Paul on December 9, 2005
A couple of weeks ago my glasses broke. Didn’t do anything to them, the frame just snapped and broke. Without them I see nothing…literally.
I did manage to get a really dorky looking replacement frame (Only frame that would fit the size and shape of the old lenses). At least I can see now, but everything is just slightly ‘off’. The lenses are so strong that they are meant to be fitted in their frame just a certain way. They don’t fit these frames in that same way, so it puts everything just enough off-kilter as to make it very annoying.
The other day Byron took me down to get my eyes examined for new glasses.
I guess my eyes are a bit worse than I had thought they were. My vision is so bad that I have to get 2 pairs of glasses - one for near and one for far. I guess the difference between the two is so drastically different that bifocals wouldn’t be a good option. On top of that, it turns out that I have glaucoma. I don’t know alot about that, but it seems there is some kind of number system they use to measure that and it should be around 15 or less, mine was 29.
So now I have to go to an eye specialist and see just how bad it is, and how much damage has been done. Little bit worried about it (perhaps moreso after reading the wikipedia entry), but maybe that will help expalin some of these devasting headaches that I seem to have constantly.
Have to wait til at least next month to get the glasses, maybe then I can get at least one of the pairs, and perhaps the other pair the following month.
Dang. Sorry about that, man.