For the last month or so, stitching has been very difficult. Can't really see the chart or the piece, especially at the same time. Was getting headaches reading too.
Well, the other day, I took a good look at my glasses. The anti-glare coating was all fogged. Visited the place I bought them and they are replacing the lenses for free. I have my old glasses on now - very nearly the same Rx, so no worries about getting around and I can actually stitch.
I expect I actually need to upgrade and get readers....
Hmmm. I don't think that's how the anti-glare is supposed to work.....
I'm glad the shop is doing right by you. I had to have one of the bows on my glasses replaced and was dreading the expense - because money was tight that month - especially when they told me they couldn't replace just one. They couldn't do it for free because I didn't get my glasses there but they were able to do it for under $5 and in about 20 minutes (I had to wait for them to finish up with someone who had an appointment). I've since always gone back to them.
Actually, I've been fighting the bifocals/separate readers & close work pair issue for a while.... I'm not ready to be "old", but it may be time to give in on this issue. The best way to describe the way the lenses looked was fogged, as if I'd taken steel wool to them
I am reasonably happy with these guys. They are part of the practice I use for the eye doctors and bend over backwards to get you the best deals using my insurance. Since I don't "have to" use them, they do their best to be competitive.
Glad you can see again. Something about so many of the glasses wearers I know - the ignoring either really dirty or damaaged lenses - or maybe it's time to get a check-up! Girl - take care of yourself, eh!
Readers - as a friend of mine said when in Optometry school - pretty much you can tell someone is 40 because that's when they need readers. Evidently for most people that is the age when the shape of your eyeball changes (I guess the viscosity of the vitrous humor changes or the muscles that help maintain shape show age - don't know which it really is) and an amazingly large, significant portion of the population need to get reading glasses just around age 40.
DH is finally admitting that he probably needs readers, bifocals or maybe trifocals. He can't read if he has his contacts in, and just looks under or over his regular glasses at this point.
You might be able to just get some clip on things for your regular glasses - else ---bifocals. Good luck - and glad you can see again.
Awwwwww...I had bifocals from age 12 to age 19 (or something like that, I can't really remember when I got them). Anyway, the eye doc took them away from me when I was 19 and I've missed them for 20 years.
So last fall I went and begged my eye doc for bifocals again because I was doing so MUCH stitching. (My begging had gone unanswered for years because, "You don't need them.") Anyway, when I told him how much stitching I was doing, he gave them back to me. I can't tell you how much difference they make in eye strain.
If you get the ones that don't have the line (smooth transition lenses or something like that), you don't really notice you have bifocals but your eyeballs are grateful.
PS...Speaking of eyeballs, I had to scrap the Eye of God chart I'm working on and start over again. :/
.My dd got those antiglare lenses one time - they were absolutely the worst glasses she has had! They scratched when you said "boo" at them. We had to replace them after six months, even though her prescription was OK, because the lenses were in such bad shape. The new eye place we went to said the *never* give antiglare lenses to kids for just that reason - they don't take good enough care of their glasses and they wind up looking like they've been smeared in a month or two.
Actually, I've always taken very good care of my glasses and find the antiglare a blessing. I am hoping that there wasn't a problem do to the super-light plastic lenses...
I've been wearing anti-glare glasses for years and because I'm nearsighted and only need glasses for distance I'm always taking them off, or moving them up to read and putting them back on to see what's ahead. And of course I usually plop them down on whatever's handy so I don't think you could describe me as being careful. I have every pair of sunglasses coated and fortunately have never had a problem.
I did have one pair of sunglasses start to bubble and peel, but that was apparently a manufacturers defect and the optical place replaced them for me.
Dh has the high index, super-light glasses. Actually he has some of those hingeless titanium (read this expensive) frames from Silhouette - you pick the color, the lens shape and then the opticians make them - pretty sweet - totally rimless. And they have the anti-glare coating - since he's in an office all day, and spending much time in front of a computer - it's worth it. Anyhow - he has had no problems with the coating scratching, or wearing off. Only on his glasses that are about 4 years old, and the dog played with - that he insists on not tossing - regardless of the presecription. With those, there is some sections that you can see the coating or something has come off.
We have a good friend that is an optician - she did his glasses. I can ask her - I know that she takes good care of him, and their clients (they do a lot of serious vision correction work). And, of course, she's a hockey ref (runs the SE District Women's Officiating Program for USAH).
Mine did too. It's been quite funny the past few months. I'm near-sighted and always have been since he's known me. I only wear glasses for driving, as I always found walking with my glasses on more detrimental than squinting to see (yeah, I am a clutz to begin with). So our conversations over the years have been (typical fishing trip): Him: Is that a deer or moose up on shore? Me: Where? Him: Shore? Me: Shore? That would be where the blue bottom meets the green middle? Him: No, Shore? Is that a deer or moose up on shore? Me: I can barely make out that's rock at that distance, and you want ME to tell you what's on shore? Him: That's a seagull on a floating log...never mind.
But my close vision is still great. My Blackberry is set to smallest font so I can see more text on the screen. I forget he's losing his reading vision and will hand it to him to read something. He'll just hand it back to me and say "Shore?".
He finally got tested in January, and the doc said just to buy the off the rack reading glasses (same in both eyes). I bought him a fairly nice pair for Valentine's Day, and he's wondering why he never did this sooner.
I think a trip to the dollar store and another few pairs might be in order. Then he can keep a pair in my purse, his van. etc. He's not yet used to carrying them around with him.
It's possible he may never get used to carrying them with him. My husband never did. He just had about 8 pair and stashed them all over the place. The he got annoyed because I'm nearsighted and he couldn't borrow my glasses to read a menu.
Probably will be the same. It's never been a problem for him and he has never had to carry them with him. He's probably too set in his ways to even start to think about it.
I'm nearsighted as well. I don't take mine everywhere (I have a pair in my car). But I will put a pair in my purse if we a going away...you never know when you might have to drive the car. Bad enough in unknown territory, yet half blind to boot.
I have the same problem with distance and here in the relentless Florida sun I have 4 pair of prescription sunglasses. I figure they should be in the category of jewelry and I buy a new pair every so often just because I like the frame.
I don't often wear my other clear glasses except maybe in the movies or in the evening if I'm driving. But I do keep a pair near me at all times just in case there's something on the TV that I really want to see clearly.
Every so often someone screams and I really need to clear up the blob on the screen so I can semi follow the action. It's frustrating when everyone but me knows who was either murdered or was the murderer. They're also necessary when I watch something like Project Runway so I can actually see the fashions that are being created.
I have these also and really really like them. My first pair I got the lenses too small. I ended up with some problems as my prescription changed a bit. I thought I'd have to get a whole new pair - not so. I got new larger lenses with the new prescription and they used the same frames which saved me a lot of money.
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