Eye Tests

[poliphilo]

We had our eyes tested today. I enjoy eye tests.  It's like being a small child.  Firstly, you get the undivided attention of a sympathetic adult. Secondly, you get to show off: "Hey, look at me; I can read things at a distance!"

My eyesight hasn't changed much in the past two years. I'm getting new glasses, but only because the old ones are scratched. I chose  a pair of frames I liked and only afterwards found out that they're NHS ones- and there's nothing to pay.

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[drox.livejournal.com]

See, I've always disliked going to the eye doctor. It was like going to the dentist, only without (as much) pain. You still have to sit in the scary chair and have things done to your head though, and the machines are just as scary.

Plus, I've always had poor eyesight. Had to get eyeglasses when I was seven years old, and it's only got worse since. And there was no showing off for me; more like every time I went there I got to fail another test. And the punishment was having to wear ever thicker lenses.

Now my distant vision is, thank heaven, not getting worse anymore, but my near vision is going. I felt so cheated -- I thought old-age presbyopia meant my myopia would get (slightly) better. But noooooo. Now my thick lenses have to be bifocals besides.

But the worst part is still where the evil eye doctor puts drops in to make the eyes extra-sensitive to light... and then shines the world's brightest lamp in there. I think they do that just to be cruel.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I started wearing glasses when I was 20. I'd always been extremely short-sighted in one eye- and then the other began to go.

I like wearing glasses. For one thing they make me look less like a mooncalf. For another they're good to fiddle with.