I’ve always had great eyesight and good hearing. Even in the last couple of years I’ve been able to read road signs way off in the distance to the amazement of friends.
Over the past few years I’ve noticed a kind of low level thumping in my left ear now and then. It thumps in time to certain noises. It doesn’t bother me most of the time and my hearing is still pretty good. It might be age or it could be an exceptionally good Hoodoo Gurus concert at the Old Melbourne Hotel in Milligan Street about 20 years ago when I stood with my left ear just a few metres away from a very large speaker stack.
About a month or so back I noticed that I couldn’t focus on small print as well as I used to. If I cover my right eye I can read pretty well. Cover my left eye and it’s a different story.
My right eye seems to be very good at turning text into little, furry, black blobs. I’m now starting to do the thing that ‘old’ people do; holding books further away from my eyes to get focus. It’s better some times than others.
I’ve made it a couple of years into my 40s without glasses, which is better than anyone else in my family, but it seems the time has come to have my eyes checked and get some specs. Any hints on frame styles?
Oh well. I’ve made it this far. Maybe it’s just time for a tune up but I can’t help thinking that the machine’s breaking down.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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The machine has done a fair few miles without doing a CV joint, or even a timing belt by the looks. It’s probably just overdue for a service and will be back on the road in no time.
Thick black frames are always a good choice! 😛
Thanks hazelblackberry. 🙂
Just what are you trying to say, Paula?
Maybe you could copy my photo from the sidebar and photoshop a couple of different styles onto my face.
🙂
http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/dress-up/acc/specs/bottle-bottom-specs.html
http://www.debspecs.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=12&Product_ID=1805&CATID=1
I tried to leave a comment earlier, but I guess it didn’t take. I’m 47, and wear contact lenses, but now I am wearing reading glasses with them (have been for the past 2 years or so). I can get them at the drugstore for about $15 US. It’s kinda a pain sometimes (trying to find them in my purse) but I don’t like my other options–bifocal contacts (?) or having one lens for distance and the other for close up vision.
Welcome to the club of the older generation!
you’re too young to be falling a part, Rodney! :o) … i got my first reading glasses this summer … they had to be perscription ones cause one eye is good, the other isn’t … but it beats having to add extensions to my arms!
Hey Amanda – my son, James, has a pair of the ‘comedy specs’ from the first URL you’ve mentioned. I’m not sure where he got them but he pulls them out every now and then for a laugh. Maybe I should try them.
Suzi, thank you for your welcome to the club of the older generation. 🙂
Saija, I’d never thought of arm extensions. Might be worth a try.
So that’s what I have to look forward too, hmmm? 😉
Dont get glasses. They totally ruin your eyesight. Oh they seem like a great idea at first; everything jumps into focus. You notice the big green blobs on the top of tree trunks are actually made up of lots of little ‘leaves’. But then you notice that your vision is even worse without them than it was before. You see, spectactle are addictive, which means that you build up a vision-tolerance. Soon, you feel like you need a stronger prescription. Just a few more magnifications, you tell yourself. What harm could it do? Before you know it, you’re hooked. You’re walking around in a neck brace just so you can support the weight of those inch-thick lenses with the reinforced frames you just had to have. Stop it now, while there’s still time. Put down that brochure, and back away slowly. Then run, baby, run, and don’t you ever. Look. Back.
Don’t feel too bad Rodney, I am a couple of years behind you and have been wearing glasses for reading for about 14 years now. Brought about by too much studying at uni (ie reading text books).
Frame suggestions? How about a nice carbon fibre pair, or titanium? Whatever you do, please please please don’t get those pretentious skinny black frames that seem to be all the rage amongst the latte set at the moment!
Our senses are precious to us, right?! I’ve been deaf since the age of six and my eyes do double the work. I would hate to lose my eyesight. Currently wearing glasses. 🙂
Hey Rodney…I was speaking with my mother who informed me that she’d just spent $750 on ONE pair of new glasses…apparently they’re “Graded” – which is the new type of bi-focals…so I gave her both barrels 🙂 (Then she threatened to hang up on me!)
Seriously though, titanium frames are nice, and light.
I’ve always wanted to wear glasses…maybe I should just get frames with plain lenses..!
Well, I haven’t any thumping, but I started having problems with reading the newspaper shortly after I turned 48. At first I blamed it on the quality of the print. “Don’t know how they print these damn papers now,” I’d say, “but you can hardly read the thing.” My son convinced me that it wasn’t the paper, and so after going to the optometrist, I came away with my first pair of reading glasses. “Welcome to the ol’ geezers club,” my son said when I returned home.
Yep…I can’t be far away from glasses either…I can’t wait, they might make me look half intelligent!