Suck-cumbing to the inevitable

[gurdymonkey]

As in getting old sucks.

When vsct_caius and I were still living together, he had one of those gadgets that I used to refer to as the Palantir Of Caller ID. The phone would ring and it would flash the caller's number in blue LED lights. I started noticing that late in the evening it would take a second or two for me to focus on those numbers if I had been sitting on the sofa reading or sewing.

Several months ago I noticed I had a new party trick - I was threading needles at arm's length. Back in April I took a wrong turn after dark, pulled over, dug out my Thomas Guide and discovered that I could not read it at all by the dome light in my truck - though the following day I pulled it out again and could read it just fine  in broad daylight.

I finally put all this together with an increasing number of headaches at work. So, after a bit of searching because MOST of the drugstore reading glasses start at 1.25 and that was a scootch too strong, I finally found a pair of 1.0s. Threading needles has just gotten a hell of a lot easier.

Which does not mean I am going to depend on them too heavily. Glasses on, thread needle, glasses off. So far so good. It also doesn't mean putting off getting my eyes checked. I'll make an appointment after the 4th of July holiday.

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Re: It's not my eyes, my arms just aren't long enough.

[kass-rants.livejournal.com]

Yeah. In my case, the weird thing is that the glasses mess up my vision sometimes -- particularly when doing close work -- and that no adjustment to my prescription makes them perfect any more. My eyes don't adjust to close work as quickly as they used to. They used to adjust instantaneously. Now it takes up to ten minutes.

The bit about not being able to thread a needle with my contact in is intensely annoying at events...