10.20.06
Its all gone fuzzy
In more way than one, I can tell you. Life is confusing enough around here, as we wait for our jobs to become ‘at risk’ while we apply for the jobs that best fit the one we do now without living in something in a real fog. Its my age you know, something that seems to happen to us all in some way or other and in my case it means that I have been having trouble seeing my computer screen and books etc with my contact lenses in.
I am long sighted, more in one eye than the other, and the discrepancy in my two eyes makes contacts my preferred method of seeing clearly. My contact lens practitioner was sympathetic to my plight when I saw her a couple of weeks ago and said she could change my lenses so that I use one eye for distance and the other for close up. The close up part is fantastic, things are looking wonderful, it is the distance that is now a big problem and particularly after a long period in front of the computer at work, I am now a danger to life and limb while driving home. Well I would be if long periods of my journey weren’t spent in a traffic jam, but that is another story!
Apparently, and this is both from a conversation I had with the contact lens lady on the phone yesterday and a google search last night, monovision can cause problems with distance vision, particularly for night driving, it can also affect depth perception and I have enough problems with that already. I am still hopeful of sorting this out, I am going for a sight test next week so perhaps the lens prescription is wrong, but I am not sure I will be going for her suggestion that I could always stick with the contact lenses and then have glasses for distance. One or the other please, not both! Watch this fuzzy space!
Kim said,
October 21, 2006 at 10:03 pm
I gave up on contacts totally since I found my totally cool glasses…
I wear progressives (bifocals with no line) and can see both near and far without a problem. The key is to find glasses you love.
I still take them off in a photo, though!
All my vanity is not gone…..LOL
Thursday Thirteen #29 « Life in the NHS said,
October 26, 2006 at 8:32 am
[...] It is official I am now old. I had an eye test yesterday (following the fuzzy situation) and it is time for the reading glasses / varifocal thing. I have also turned short sighted in one eye having always been long sighted in both. I am definitely becoming most weird (you don’t have to agree with this statement). The monovision thing with the contacts is improving though and I am no longer a danger (in my own opinion). [...]