Four Eyes Again!

It must be at least 15 years since I last wore glasses.

I've gone from goggles (where people saw rings before they saw me) to high index to super high index to Torric soft lenses to hard lenses - the kind that kept slipping up or down into weird, unnatural places on my cornea.

I've spent valuable years of my life in front of the mirror, injecting eyedrops, trying to position my lenses correctly, or worse, frantically searching the basin for that near-invisible piece that just happened to fall off my fingertip.

In 2001, I submitted myself to Lasik surgery, knowing that with my severe myopia and astigmatism, there would be residual side effects.

I can't drive at night because of poor night vision and the halo effect.

My latent divergent squint is going to be even more obvious.

Those niggling issues aside, I've been enjoying 6/6 vision and the pure joy of being able to see unaided.

Lately though, I've started squinting while driving because I can't see the text on signboards.

Drat.

At the optometrist's on Sat, I detailed my litany of issues.

The opto handed down the verdict: I'm myopic...again.

I'm 100 deg in one eye and 50 deg in the other.

Started trying on a variety of frames - pink? purple? bronze? - anything that looked funky or intriguing. No big round gold frames (I am not ready to look like an "auntie"!) or anything without nosepads, because they won't sit properly on my flat bridge.

Beth wandered into the store from shopping with Daddy, and disapproved of every one of my choices.

Finally settled on a pair that Annie spotted. It was the only one of its kind, because it comes with these clip-on shades that are magnetically attached.

How cool and convenient's that?

After the preferred provider discounts and swiping my health insurance card, I'm out of pocket by only $129 on the original price of $400-ish.

Love my health insurer. :-)