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ORIGINAL: TreSwank

    I got the news from  a vision specialist lately, during a routine eye exam.........and I'm going to see about getting my first pair of glasses tomorrow.

  I've known that my sight was starting to falter a little bit - but this is something I've got to do - reluctantly, of course.  My vanity would normally cause me to opt for contacts, but I have a SERIOUS phobia of things going into my eye (I gave my eye doc hell with those Goddam dilation drops.)  I'm near-sighted, so shit that's way out there kind turns into blur-city, ruling out long distance face-recognition, and other important life skills.  I want to pick something that looks good - but I almost feel as if I might start looking kind of dorky with glasses.  Who else out there is a member of the "Four-Eyes" club?

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ORIGINAL: SusanofO

My vision is so terrible, that I am almost legally blind without my glasses. It is something like 20/500. I inherited my poor vision from my father. My sister has them, too, but her vision is better than mine. My mother and my other sister have(had) perfect vision, always.

I remember when I was a little kid, about 8 years old, and got my first pair of eye-glasses. I could suddenly see things from a distance I'd just taken for granted that nobody else could see, either. It amazed me I could now see them. It was like night and day.

My mother had taken us to see the movie "Snow White" at a theater a few weeks earlier, and I kept asking if we coud sit closer in front, and it bugged her. Then a teacher at school figured out I couldn't see the blackboard from the back of the room, where my desk was - and I got glasses.

At first, I hated them. I had those awful 1960's "cat-eye" glasses, and my dad used to get mad at me because I would mysteriously "lose" them under my bed, instead of wearing them. He made me wear them, though.

In high school I got hard contacts - because they hadn't really come out with soft ones yet. I fell asleep with them on once, and my eye was swollen so badly when I woke up, I had to go to the ER (not something I recommend).

Today, I wear soft contacts almost all the time. I wear glasses at night, or when my eyes are very tired. Contacts were very weird to get used to at first, Tre. But you do get used to them - with the soft ones now, you can hardly feel them in your eyes (really). I cannot describe how much different they feel from hard contacts - it's amazing.

Then of course there is Lasik surgery. I know several people who have had successful Lasik surgery - but something about it still scares me - I just don't want anyone messing with my eyes.

Welcome to the club!

- Susan

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy



try a lense that turns into sunglasses- sunglasses can be cool. or get a few diff pair.

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ORIGINAL: SusanofO

TreSwank: Thanks for the information about Lasik surgery, Tre. I have considered it (and still am, sort of). My cousin, and many of my acquaintances, swear they had no problems at all with it, either. Your thoughts are duly noted. It does scare me, though (maybe for the same reason you don't want to stick your fingers in your eyes w/contacts). But I am still thinking aboout it.

***If it's any consolation (I stupidly forgot to mention this in my previous post) - I think that men in glasses are sexy. My dad wore glasses (and still does) - maybe that's part of the reason I feel this way, I dunno. But - a guy in glasses just looks smart, to me.

And smart is sexy, don'tcha know.
- Susan

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

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ORIGINAL: SusanofO

TreSwank: Thanks for the information about Lasik surgery, Tre. I have considered it (and still am, sort of). My cousin, and many of my acquaintances, swear they had no problems at all with it, either. Your thoughts are duly noted. It does scare me, though (maybe for the same reason you don't want to stick your fingers in your eyes w/contacts). But I am still thinking aboout it.

***If it's any consolation (I stupidly forgot to mention this in my previous post) - I think that men in glasses are sexy. My dad wore glasses (and still does) - maybe that's part of the reason I feel this way, I dunno. But - a guy in glasses just looks smart, to me.

And smart is sexy, don'tcha know.
- Susan

whne they do the lasik- you are awake w 10 mg of valium. 10 mg of valium is a sugar pill to me. it would not work.