glasses. Glasses and cups of coffee.
I have lost my glasses again. A-gain!
I have a problem. I have a torque in my vision: my eyes switch problems at a certain distance, which means I can’t wear bifocals. A doctor who prescribed neomycin for a minor eye infection just before BucConneer nearly blinded me: my eyes got worse and worse, and by the time I lost patience with the pain and blurry vision and went to a major eye clinic, where they informed me it was, yes, allergy—I had some permanent scarring. Which didn’t help.
The upshot of the whole affair is that I can’t wear bifocals: I have to have a separate pair of glasses for every application, and I can’t keep track of them. Things are better since they let me wear contacts again…I am down to one pair, with a few storeboughts. But I have this habit of hanging them from my collar, and they may, for all I can tell, be in shrubbery, on the bottom of the fishpond, or just blending with the carpet in some dark corner.
We pulled an all-house search, upended my working chair and may (we’re having trouble id-ing them for sure) have found the pair of Jane’s glasses that have been missing since a few weeks after she bought them.
But mine are still missing. So I went to Costco to get others. They’d lost my prescription. They’re having to get it from Walmart, who have also lost it. The doctor there called and is going to give me a free brief exam so I can get my glasses…she’s a very good doctor, but the office is a little iffy about organization.
So Jane has her glasses, mine are still missing, and I had to take my contact out because I walked into Lowes after soaker hose and they have something in the air that just killed my eyes.
The coffee cups: I fill ’em, I set ’em down, I find them considerably later. I fill one and discover there’s already one in the microwave. I have, even, though not recently, found one in the ice box. Classic.
But hopefully we will get the glasses thing solved. And then my old ones will turn up, want to bet?
Alas, people with good vision never quite understand the frustration of a glasses hunt in dim light. “Are those my glasses? Nope. Spider! Huge spider!”
I’m usually good about knowing where my glasses are (I only have one pair, having just switched to progressives with mixed but more positive than negative results). My rare issue is when I walk around the house asking everyone where my glasses are. I wonder why they are staring at me so strangely until I realize that my glasses are on my face, and that my vision is blurry merely because my eyes have dried out. 🙂
I do so wish I could go without glasses and wake up in the morning without blurry vision.
– S
When the old ones turn up, you’ll be glad you now have a spare set, and you’ll put them in a really safe place — the location of which you’ll promptly forget. 🙂
We have a hand made quilt on the master bed that tends to hide things like the black parts of the white floor in the restaurant that hid the rats on Tatatouille.
I will look all over the house for my keys or my phone only to find them hidden in the pattern of the quilt. Frustrating.
My 10 year old is charged with the responsibility every morning of finding my coffee cup. Usually it’s in the microwave, but sometimes I find one days later on a bookshelf somewhere. Last week it was on a shelf in my closet.
I had lots of reading glasses, because I was always losing them or breaking them, and always buying new ones, until my doctor told me my eyes had changed, and he switched me to less correction. That enables me to read with contacts only, but my distance vision is for the birds. I am really a hazard driving. Can’t read the signs for anything, so i rely on the gps, which tells me where to turn and when.
Oh mine is the cell phone. I rarely go very far, just up the street to the grocery store. On the infrequent occasion when I might need to go somewhere farther, then its insisted upon that I take my cell phone.
Well, I never know where it. It likely has no charge. If those two things work out, then since its pay as you go service, I’ve probably let it lapse and there is no money on the account. And most annoying of all, I forget to ever turn it on.
After putting my cereal boxes into the refrigerator a couple of times on accident (and the milk in the cupboard…guh) I found that the refrigeration solved the humidity problem I was having (the cereal would get hit with humidity and clump up into one massive lump I’d have to chisel break) I decided cereal in the fridge made perfect sense and have been doing it ever since. It stays dry and doesn’t over dry as long as you fold down the bag inside. Just so long as the milk went back into the fridge too.
A few years ago I was clearing out a room until it was completely empty and at some point took off my glasses to rub some dust or something out of my eyes, put them down, went out to get eye drops, and then came back in…and couldn’t find them. My eye sight was just that bad. I had to crawl around on the floor with my head about a foot off the ground looking for them in an empty room.
Before we were married DH kept his cereal in the oven … he never used it. It did keep it very fresh.
I heard of a family that wanted to surprise mom for mother’s day buy buying her an expensive cake and dinner. They wanted to surprise her so they took the dishes out of the dishwasher and put them in the oven then they put the cake and dinner int he dishwasher . . .
Yes, mom got up early, started the dishwasher and turned on the oven to start breakfast. That was a mother’s day to remember!
My flour is in the fridge. No cereal in the house, though. (Also in the fridge: the sourdough starter. And about two pounds of chocolate bars.)
I try not to put my glasses anyplace new, because I *will* forget where I put them. Being seriously myopic, as well as over-the-hill, means I have trouble seeing them, as well as remembering where they got put.
I do alright with glasses, being nearsighted. What really gets away from me are keys. Car keys, house keys, mailbox keys, hotel keys, I’ve lost them all. Key cards are the worst, because they look like just another business card or piece of paper when you set them down, and you only realize you’ve forgotten it after the door locks itself behind you.
Once again, I feel so much better. I’m not the only blind person in the world wondering what the hell I’ve done with them this time! I’m like kokipy — distance vision is largely toast, but close up is fine, as long as I take my glasses off. I can read, do needlework, work on the computer et al, just fine without my glasses. So after driving to work or driving home, I take them off. At work, the choices of where to put them is really limited, either on my desk or on my collar like CJ. But at home, they might end up anywhere! And that middle range of 5-7 feet is lousy too, so I squint like mad and bumble around and it usually take husband who only takes his off to sleep to find mine. I got so fed up with trying to look up an see something important on TV that I got little glasses like readers for my nearsightedness, and have them set up high on my nose — I can see up close under them and then look up and see fine for distance. I refuse to do bifocals — with my work, I’d never be able to see the ground through them and that would be a bad thing.
I’ve got a cataract in my left eye that the ophthamalogist swears isn’t a problem right now and that it’s pointless to go through the risk of surgery on my dominant eye until the cataract is big enough to really affect my vision. “Huh?”, says I.
In the meantime, he referred me to the optometrist, who told me my eyes should really be looking through trifocals, because the difference between my far and near vision isn’t covered by either lens. They told me that I also need to get a pair of computer glasses and dedicated reading glasses (+2.50), which, as I priced them are in the neighborhood of 420.00 a pair. The computer glasses would run me $180.00 for just the lenses, never mind what the frames would cost me. Then the trifocals, and I don’t even want to get into that, because I just got my eyes checked in May of this year, she did up my refraction and the near-vision refraction, and new contacts, and that was to the tune of $560.00 or so.
Because I’m retired military, they gave me a free pair of the trifocals. The sad news, they’re what we used to call in the Navy, “birth control glasses” because they make you look so nerdy, no woman (or man) would want to even think about coming near you, much less mating. The active duty and their dependents get the nice shiny metal frames that don’t feel like a ton of Bakelite on your face, but not the people who’ve already given a big chunk of their lives. (Don’t get me started on Congressmen and Senators – they get free health care for life after serving only 6 years in Congress. I’m still mad at the Democrats who said the “little people” need to take the public option, but we’re not going to because we’ve already GOT free health care.) So, eventually, like maybe next spring, I’ll try to get those lenses done, maybe have another pair of dedicated computer glasses, and a better looking set of trifocals.
My biggest thing is losing my reading glasses. I’m down to 3 pair, one pair is missing, the other ones get buried under a ton of correspondence, CDs, and other stuff.
My husband uses the VA also. When he’s near a garage sale or auction he looks for frames he can use and then takes them to the VA to have the lenses put in. His best find was at an auction where he picked up a box of expensive lightweight frames that he’s still recycling.
Hmm, I don’t lose my reading glasses, because I only need them when I am reading in bed at night. The rest of my reading is usually on the computer, where I can adjust the font size! LOL What I lose are sunglasses. I swear, there is a pair of my sunglasses in every restaurant I have ever visited, at every friend’s house, and any other place where I might take them off. That, and hats. Sunglasses and hats disappear so fast I buy them in bulk, CHEAP ones.
I used to wear glasses (starting in seventh grade or so) but recently switched to 24/7 monthly contacts (I love them! lovelovelove not having to switch between sunglasses and glasses every time I go out and in buildings!) I have nevertheless found myself trying to push my glasses up my nose, and am continually flummoxed when I discover that I am not wearing any! Luckily for me, even when I wore glasses I could still find them with reasonable accuracy, as my vision is only -2.00 and -1.5 in left and right eyes. My mum is legally blind at -7!
In what country is -7 legally blind? Because at -10 or thereabouts, I am nowhere near blind; I hold a full driving licence (though I can’t drive lorries or fly), and, well, the whole point of glasses is that they get you to the point where you’re seeing perfectly well. One advantage of being that nearsighted is that I never lose my glasses. I _always_ wear them, taking them off just isn’t an option.
Well, I used to be really really near-sighted, until I finally broke down and had LASIK surgery done. Now, I have learned that it is possible to have perfect visual acuity (20/20, in other words), and still not see clearly. The problem seems to be a bit of astigmatism that is still left, and makes itself known as extreme eyestrain after working all day on the computer. I also have visual congruency insufficiency (a very fancy way of saying the my eyes do not track together smoothly), which probably doesn’t help any. So I have a pair of glasses that really do help with the eyestrain. My problem is remembering to put them on in the morning, since I can see fine without them at that time.
On the other hand, I have a habit of “losing” very odd things. Like chairs. After I moved and had been settled in for a while, I asked myself one day “Didn’t I have 6 dining room chairs?” I could swear that I had four armless ones, and two with arms, but could only find two of each. So I started searching through the house. I looked in each room, the garage, and even in the closets (the house had nice walk-in closets everywhere), just in case they had been put there to be out of the way while some remodeling was going on. After not finding them, I finally decided that I was either mistaken, or else the moving company had absconded with them when they unloaded my stuff, and went on with life. Then, about 10 days later, I decided to take the dog for a walk, and got some socks out, sat down to put them on, and then said to myself “What am I sitting on?” Yep, it was one of the “missing” chairs. Sitting by the wall of my bedroom, where it had been for several months. And then I found the other “missing” chair, sitting by the door in the computer room, where it had also been for several months. Neither of these chairs were in any way hidden… I just don’t “see” things that I don’t need to. They would have stayed missing for several more months if I hadn’t had to find a place to put on my socks.
Cans of WD-40… I swear they have little legs hidden underneath.
I tend to blame the I-just-had-it-and-put-it-down disappearances on elves in the night. But Marvin works really good with your avatar.
@joekc6nlx, Just go to the Dollar Store or drugstore and keep buying those cheap glasses because spending anything for custom glasses if you’ve got a cataract is useless. I just had one removed a couple months ago. I must have changed prescriptions every 2-3 mos and for the little time the prescriptions/new glasses will work, you can just as easily make do with a couple pairs of the drugstore glasses, one for reading and one for tv. Just have to face it, you’re not going to be really comfortable reading for long periods of time until it’s gone, no prescription glasses can make it better. On the plus side – no pain in the surgery, no pain recovering, just in case it helps to know that.
@joekc6nlx part 2…
I left out part of that for some reason, dunno how…
re: Forgot to say, same situation, same advice –I was told the same thing, spent probably 2500 on glasses in the year before the eye was finally ready for surgery, none of the glasses I bought by prescription were effective for more than 2 mos and needed to be replaced again and again. The doctor that did my surgery told me just get the drugstore glasses when the other cataract begins to ripen. They would do me just as well since I’m not a kid and be a lot less expensive.
I can’t keep track of my hammers but that’s another story.
I’m looking forward to my cataract surgery. Since I have no useful sight in my left eye-boring medical problem-when the developing cataract in my right eye is removed I WON’T HAVE TO WEAR GLASSES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 55 YEARS. I cannot even remember what life was like without them but I’m looking forward to it.
Phil Brown
So glad that I have company in the ‘can’t wear bifocals’ category. I always
snickered at the joke about the absent minded looking for their glasses while wearing them on their heads. Until it happened to me. Reading glasses are ever lost. Worst case? Lost regular glasses so can’t see to find the ones for reading,it happens all too regularly.
My glasses ran me about 100€, because I couldn’t find any good looking free frames and the lenses are slightly fancy aka they got a slight antireflection coating – I’m still somewhat mad about letting myself be talked into that – and they are made of real glass which underwent a special process so they are a bit thinner and thereby lighter.
Now the problem is, if I take them off, I can’t see them anymore. I generally keep them on at all times and so far there was only instance where I couldn’t find them and had to get someone else to look where they were.
I tried contact a few years back (and was surprised when I went into a bookstore, they had apparently a new version of Cyteen, it was one third larger than the one they had the day before ;)). I feel rather insecure with contacts, but they were really great to buy new glasses with.
Lost glasses is a known problem… 😉 I see relatively well without mine, only need them to watch things in a distance (only the distance is getting shorter and shorter, or is it blurrier and blurrier?!) so I put them down in different places…
I hope you get the new ones, fast!