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Author Topic: My First Bifocals  (Read 616 times)

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Offline Sharon

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I've had glasses since I was 8 and I need a pretty strong correction. Well yesterday I picked up my first pair of glasses with bifocals... yep, I feel really old today!

This is going to take some getting used to, but luckily it's a mild correction since I'm getting them early. The doctor said it's easier to adjust to them now when the difference is less.

I'm wearing a hat since it's Spirit Week at my office and today is Hat Day! 😅🎩😜

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Offline mike89

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lookin Good Sharon!!!   :happy1:
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Offline Rodwork

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You still look young to me. New glasses look good. 
Why is it I only need glasses when there is not enough light? :confused:
« Last Edit: March 03/26/24, 08:24:07 AM by Rodwork »

Offline glenn57

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lookin good Sharon!!!!! :happy1: i need help reading. they gave me i think bifocals at one point........i could not get used to them.  :surrender: now as i get older i need glasses more and more to see up close.........far away no. the eye doc said just go to the dollar store and get the 150's....been good since.
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 :happy1: :scratch: Oh, you still need A LOT of help, buddy. :sleazy: :nerd: :evil:          ;) :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
« Last Edit: March 03/26/24, 08:31:58 AM by Gunner55 »
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Offline Dotch

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Those glasses look great on you, Sharon!  :happy1:

I'm nearsighted & been wearing glasses since about 4th grade. Was having trouble seeing the blackboard between the spitballs, paper airplanes & stink bombs going off. Along about 40-ish I started noticing issues switching between reading the paper & watching TV. Got graduated bifocals shortly afterwards. Solved that problem but created a bunch more. Trying to get my head cranked around to see things under the hood on the car took a nasty turn. Not only could I not see what I wanted, I was banging my head on stuff trying.  :doah: 
Time itself is bought and sold, the spreading fear of growing old contains a thousand foolish games that we play. (Neil Young)

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:happy1: :scratch: Oh, you still need A LOT of help, buddy. :sleazy: :nerd: :evil:          ;) :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :mooning: :mooning: :mooning: :tut: :tut: :tut: :tut:

dotch...........awe no comment!!!!!! :evil: :sleazy: :rotflmao:
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Offline dutchboy

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Welcome to getting old Sharon.
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Offline Jerkbiat

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Welcome to getting old Sharon.
X2. But I have to take my glasses off to read up close. Only need glasses for distance. I started wearing glasses in the 7th grade. About my early 40s my eyes actually reversed and I didn't need glasses anymore. Then I got that goofy cataract and now I need glasses again. But I have one eye that is for distance and the left eye is for reading. No need for readers now. Makes it nice for tying fishing line.
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Online Gunner55

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I've had glasses since grade school. I started having headaches & not being able to read the blackboard in ~ 4th grade. Probably been at least the last 10-15 years with bifocals.
« Last Edit: March 03/26/24, 10:43:50 AM by Gunner55 »
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Offline tangle tooth

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       Looks great, Sharon. You'll get used to them. The hardest part will be finding out how to hold whatever you're reading or doing computer work.
I wonder. Does Darth Vader have a sister named Ella? Bet she has her ups and downs.

Offline Sharon

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Thanks guys! It's an adjustment, but so far so good. Everyone at the eye doctor warned me about being careful on stairs and using hand railings... talk about making a gal feel old!  :rotflmao: :surrender:

Luckily I'm a germ-conscious person who very rarely uses hand railings, and as a result I have pretty good balance. Hopefully that continues to serve me well as I learn to use the bifocals. I find myself nodding a lot today to see the difference with how far things are away from my eyes and the font size.

I'm told I don't look as old as I am, so at least I've got that going for me!  :happy1: :happy1:

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The eye doc told my wife to always point her nose in the direction she was going when using stairs. That way you are not looking thru the bifocal. Ya, you look like you are in your 20s.
Hey look your bobber is up!

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 Don't look a day over 60. :surrender: :surrender: :rotflmao:

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I wondered how young you were. 

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      My eye doctor told me that glasses would help me see better but they couldn't help me look better. He said they weren't miracle glasses. Wonder what he meant?
I wonder. Does Darth Vader have a sister named Ella? Bet she has her ups and downs.

Offline Sharon

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You guys are great! 🤣 I'm definitely not in my 20s anymore but glad I can still appear so! Monday was crazy hair day at the office for spirit week and I had my hair in curly pig tails.... I looked 12!! 😅🤣😅🤷‍♀️

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The different depth perception from the different areas of the lenses can make steps an adventure.

Offline Boar

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Oooooweeeeee look at dat cowgirl! Yeeehaaaw!!!
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Offline glenn57

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Oooooweeeeee look at dat cowgirl! Yeeehaaaw!!!
awe gawd boar! :pouty: :confused: :tut: don't be scaring her off like you did every other female that joined  MNO  :confused: :tut: :rotflmao:
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a bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work!!

Offline Boar

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Yur jelous cause yu scared off Ramone!!
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He stays in touch with the nudists however... :coffee:
Time itself is bought and sold, the spreading fear of growing old contains a thousand foolish games that we play. (Neil Young)

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Hey look your bobber is up!

Offline Jrasmussen

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Oooooweeeeee look at dat cowgirl! Yeeehaaaw!!!
awe gawd boar! :pouty: :confused: :tut: don't be scaring her off like you did every other female that joined  MNO  :confused: :tut: :rotflmao:

Not to worry Glenn she tougher than this Boar character anyway. She can handle herself.  :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

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Oooooweeeeee look at dat cowgirl! Yeeehaaaw!!!
awe gawd boar! :pouty: :confused: :tut: don't be scaring her off like you did every other female that joined  MNO  :confused: :tut: :rotflmao:

Not to worry Glenn she tougher than this Boar character anyway. She can handle herself.  :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :happy1:
2015 deer slayer!!!!!!!!!!

Offline glenn57

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Yur jelous cause yu scared off Ramone!!
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :moon: :mooning: i'm neither jealous nor scared of anybody bucko!!!!!  :happy1: :rotflmao:
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 :scratch: i said you scared off ramone not that yu were...of hel never mind, like talking to a sheephead...
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