New GlassesAuthor: jawapro
Date: Mon 13/10/2008 08:03 PM
For the last few weeks, I've noticed that my eyesight has been getting worse.
Normally that wouldn't have been too critical, but it's gotten to the stage where using a computer can affect me.
And knowing me - that's a massive problem!
Games and things aren't too bad, but text is a problem. So that's been a real pain at work, and part of the reason I haven't been blogging as much.
So I went and got my eyes tested, and sure enough, my left eye has gotten a lot worse. My right eye isn't much different though. So they think the reason it's been an issue is that my right eye is doing all the work - and the left eye is just making this worse (I actually do better if I keep it closed).
So they sorted a new perscription for me, and got me to choose some glasses (actually 2 sets, because 1 was free).
I hadn't heard anything for a while, so I went back today, and sure enough, they had arrived.
Looking at the above photo, 1 is my current glasses. 2 is my new main pair. 3 is my free bonus pair. Sorry the photos blurry, it was just going dark when I took them, my camera was set to some wierd shaky setting (must have bumped it) and my tripod fell to bits - so it wasn't a good photoshoot.
Anyway - when I went to pick them up, I tried the main pair on.
Whoooa!
My left eye is now very clear again. It was brilliant.
But my right eye?
Ok - for a demo, see this rather nice photo of my family (taken a few years back, minus the beard).
Well - that is my left eye with the new glasses, and my right eye with my old glasses.
This is my right eye with the new glasses.
I told the girl who was giving me the glasses that it seemed really bad - and she just said that it was the new perscription, and I'd get used to it. I explained that my previous good eye was bad now, and she said that that was ok, because the glasses were supposed to make both eyes work together, and it would seem like that until I got both eyes settled together and to give it a try at home for a while, and to come back in a few weeks if it was a problem.
I was pretty sure I'd be back, but I decided to do as she said (after all, she's supposed to know what she's talking about - and the actual optomotrist wasn't around).
I didn't know when I could try getting my eyes settled - because I couldnt use a computer like that, I couldn't drive, I couldnt read, I couldn't watch telly - I'd have to take a lot of time just walking around to even start to get used to it.
And I might have actually believed her and tried, but I did happen to have a second 'free' pair as well.
I tried them on properly after I left. They are smaller than I'd like - but I didn't have much choice when it came to the free frames. They also have a sort of fish-bowl thing going. Everything looks odd - like looking at the world through a glass bowl.
BUT
My right eye works fine.
So does my left.
Which means that they screwed up on the main pair.
So I'm off back to OPSM tomorrow to explain that they gave me two pairs that were supposed to be the same, but they definatly are not. My friend tried them on, and said the same thing.
They might even be able to fix the fish-bowl problem with the other glasses.
So I have new glasses - but I'm still wearing the old ones for now.
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