I’m old

October 5, 2006 by · 1 Comment
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Went to the eye doctor last night.

I was having some headaches at work since the move. They’ve mostly subsided, leading me to believe that rather than a vision problem they were caused by outgassing carpets, cubicles, and new A/C system (the building was completely renovated for us). However, my near vision has been getting farther away. I can read without trouble, but after a while it gets tiring.

The eye doctor concluded that I have no glaucoma and that my vision had declined from an above-average 20/15 to just 20/20 now. My near focal distance has increased.

Last, after some playing around with lenses, he concluded that I “accepted” a minimal reading correction.  So we ordered my first pair of glasses – only 0.5 strength. I had suggested just getting “drug store” glasses, but he said that he didn’t think they came in a prescription that weak.

I’m old.

(And yes, I know that many of you have been wearing glasses for years. This is more about the degradation of my vision due to age than it is about vision in general.)

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