Previously I was at a -13 with astigmatism

meara, you win. I'm at a -10 and thought I'd get the bad vision trophy, but I accept defeat.

Then Will and I came back and got super romantic by clearing the snow and sleet off my car and the hedges and shoveling my car out.

That's love, right there.

meara, you win. I'm at a -10 and thought I'd get the bad vision trophy, but I accept defeat.

Yeah, sadly not a great trophy to get! But I will gladly now relinquish it--the eye surgery was about $5K, but worth every penny.

Turns out the snow in the ground is more ice than snow. My car's tires just spun when u tried to move my car. Going to deal with this before work. I'm frustrate because I'm not prepared for winter and I put off doing some prep work because of the pain I was in.

Previously I was at a -13 with astigmatism

I'm at a -10 and thought I'd get the bad vision trophy, but I accept defeat.

My nearly-matched -3.75's will sit quietly and not whine. At all.

I went in to get new glasses to use up FSA money a while back and the doctor gave me the side eye when I told him I'd lost my old ones two-to-three years prior. Then he tested my eyes and just said "Oh."

But I do feel like I'm on the cusp on needing to check out the reading glasses racks at the Walgreens. (You were right, Mom! All that reading under the covers by flashlight did ruin my eyes.)

My astigmatism is so slight that the doctor couldn't really detect it this time, but in the notes it shows he himself diagnosed it a couple of years ago.

But I do feel like I'm on the cusp on needing to check out the reading glasses racks at the Walgreens. (You were right, Mom! All that reading under the covers by flashlight did ruin my eyes.)

For the past 5 years or so, every year my optometrist has said my close up sight was fine, but at about 43 I'd probably start to need reading glasses. Guess what age I am now? Guess who can (mostly) read okay with regular contacts in, but has started to need glasses for little stuff like fixing jewelry clasps? Last time I was in I accused him of voodoo and gave him a hard time for cursing me.

Doc said I should only require reading glasses after the surgery. I disbelieve, considering how bad my eyes are.

I'm nearsighted and I hit the point about 2 years ago where I'm constantly taking my glasses on and off when I switch from near work to far work. When I'm soldering or doing any type of close up detail work like reading the backs of amp racks I have to take my glasses off and then suddenly everything is peachy. Then I have another pair of glasses that I'm wearing right now for the distance I need looking at a computer monitor, and then the progressives for the rest of the time. I do fear that I might be only a few years away from also adding reading glasses to the mix for near work. At that point I'll just need a bag for carrying all my glasses.

The thing is my vision isn't horrible. It's -2.0 and -1.50, it's just that I need to swap around for all the different distances.

Both my mom and step-dad had cataract surgery and they only rarely will use readers now. Like with fine print stuff only. They were delighted.

I'm farsighted and my script has been stable for years now. My contacts are +3.5 for reading and +1.0 for far. My brain translates for the in-between. I love them and hope my eyes recover soon and let me wear them again. I'll be stuck with 3 different pair of OTC readers in the meantime.