Shocked by aging process

@ray666
I see your point🥸. Good luck.

@westwoman3698 Ditto! I couldn't care less about fancy frames. I just want to read again, squinting, adjusting the light, trying a different chair, etc., etc., etc. Good luck to you in getting some reading glasses that really help! –Ray (@ray666)

@ray666
Oh, yeah! I'm right there with you and @westwoman3698. My optometrist (of many years) was not comfortable prescribing new glasses for me this year, sending me to an ophthalmologist for a second opinion. He wrote the prescription, which I took back to my optometrist's office to have made with very plain (but quality) frames, and voila, I'm reading again! Had prescription readers made from my 2025 appointment but they were all but useless. Oh, this is so nice, now! I know I have "difficult" eyes, having needed visual therapy some 50 years ago. Prisms have gotten much stronger over the years but golly, I sure am glad to be able to read again with no "second pair" (readers) needed!

I'm hearing a lot about making the best of it. Isn't that what we've been doing our entire lives. At this time of life we should be doing everything to enhance or improve our life as much as financially, medically, physically, psychologically and realistically possible. Don't settle for anything you don't need to! If you can do better than the drugstore reading glasses, then do it. If you can't buy prescription reading glasses then at least try to get the right strength for each eye by buying two pair and swapping lenses. If you need a bigger TV and can afford it, buy it. Keep active at something even if you need help getting there. Keep learning! It's the best way to exercise your mind. Do something that you enjoy every day! Keep learning, living and loving! We are responsible for our own happiness!

@bjk3
Hi, Barb

Yes, this glasses business sure can get to be a nuisance as you get older. Like most of us, I had pretty good vision––close-in and distant––until sometime in my 50s or 60s when I began to get bothered by double-vision while driving. More and more, I was driving around with one eye closed. My long-time eye doc continued to fine-tune my prescription, but with only marginal success. Then last year my long-time doc retired, and my care was given over to the practice's newest doc, a fellow (when I first met him) I sized up as still a daily watcher of Sesame Street. This new doc gave me a new prescription for prescription glasses, and WOW! No more double-vision. So now it's on to finding good reading glasses. I'm encouraged by your saying, " … and voila, I'm reading again!" That motivates me.

What do you say? Shall we all have the best possible weekend?

Cheers!
Ray

@ray666
Yes, definitely! The BEST POSSIBLE! (Glad you didn't say, "best ever"). That means every weekend can be our best possible! Do I hear an "Amen!" or a "You bet!!!"??

The ophthalmologist I was sent to specialized in double vision (convergence), a problem that has plagued me since my teens. I know so well the one-eye-closed maneuver -- it is still a go-to when I get drop-over tired. But it amazes me that I don't need reading glasses anymore at all. This doc looked to be 60-something and he was lightning-fast at discerning the prescription needed. Also, routine eye exams aren't covered by my Medicare or secondary, but this appointment was because it was a diagnostic appointment (they were looking for early Grave's symptoms; it turned out negative - yay!).
Here's to that best possible weekend for ALL!
Barb

@westwoman3698
Yes. But. Where are my glasses?

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