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I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« on: Mar 14th, 2006, 9:48am » |
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I refuse to grow up but I think I am offically getting old now.
I went yesterday and picked up my brand new pair of bifocals. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything looks so... so.... um...... I'M SO WASTED!!!!!!
Will I ever get used to these thing?
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #1 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 10:52am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 9:48am, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
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I got rid of my first pair of bi-focal b/c I could not get accustomed to them. I do have Bi-focal contacts and that is cool. Had these for 2 years and I'm 43...physcially...20 mentally. 
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #2 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 10:52am » |
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Brad actually gave up on his.......he works on presses and runs around huge machines and stuff at work and can't be DIZZY........he said he had to learn to walk all over again but would turn to do sumthin and get dizzy and disoriented kind of feeling and could NOT adjust. He didn't particularly want bifocals in the first place but this eye doc he went to was an apparent DICK. He went back and told the guy he could NOT work and adjust to them but the guy got pissy and said EVERYONE says that and to just WEAR THEM and shut up basically. I think he even called and complained again but the nurses said to get over it.........he doesn't wear them anymore at all. Defeated purposes Pam
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #3 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:05am » |
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I ended up with the progressive bi-focals...........the indignities of getting old. Stairs are by far the most exciting part of bi-focals. You walk like a moderately intoxicated frankenstein! You do kinda sorta get used to them! Good luck.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #4 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:08am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 10:52am, TomM wrote:
I'm 43...physcially...20 mentally.
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I'd think we were long lost twins but my mental part is closer to 16.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #5 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:09am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 11:05am, Guiseppi wrote:Stairs are by far the most exciting part of bi-focals. You walk like a moderately intoxicated frankenstein! You do kinda sorta get used to them! Good luck.
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I never got used to them so I went back and got distance only glasses. I dam near fell flat on my face b/ c of the bi's going from the garage to the kitchen...a whole 3 stairs!
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #6 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:10am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 11:05am, Guiseppi wrote:I ended up with the progressive bi-focals...........the indignities of getting old. Stairs are by far the most exciting part of bi-focals. You walk like a moderately intoxicated frankenstein! You do kinda sorta get used to them! Good luck.
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I feel like I"m in a Monty Python skit. I'm the leader at the Ministry of Silly Walks. 
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I almost ran over a curb this morning.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #7 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:28am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 11:10am, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:| I feel like I"m in a Monty Python skit. I'm the leader at the Ministry of Silly Walks. |
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #8 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:35am » |
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Give it a week or two without taking them off. It's tough, but worth it. I can't imagine not having them now.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #9 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:44am » |
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I really didn't have that much trouble getting used to them after the first few days. The problem I had was when working on the puter, I would have to hold my head back so that I could see the screen thru the lower part and my neck got sore. So, I just had another pair made with the reading part in the whole lens so that it didn't bother me when using the puter.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #10 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:44am » |
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To "imnotbub"";
If you're not bub, who are you and where is bub? 
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #11 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 11:55am » |
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Just look at me so no complaing now 
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #12 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 12:32pm » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 10:52am, TomM wrote:
I I'm 43...physcially...20 mentally.
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Me too!
Try the no line ones They work pretty good.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #13 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 12:36pm » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 12:32pm, Ghost wrote:Try the no line ones They work pretty good.
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Mike--That is what I had and hated them. Bifocal contacts are koooool!
on Mar 14th, 2006, 11:08am, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
I'd think we were long lost twins but my mental part is closer to 16.
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I went from 16 to 20 my last b-day [in dec] only b/c of the grey hair!
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #14 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 12:40pm » |
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I know the feeling took 3 different styles before they worked for me. enough to make someone crazier. 
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #15 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 12:52pm » |
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 11:44am, ABarham wrote: The problem I had was when working on the puter, I would have to hold my head back so that I could see the screen thru the lower part and my neck got sore.
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Tell me about it. I'm a computer hardware/config specialist. I have 450 computers to maintain.
I'm having a hard time with my monitor right now.
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« Reply #16 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 12:56pm » |
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The other secret is MORE light. I do some hardware confiuration @ my firm or @ home. Those dark light spaces kill me. I first noticed it when working in the bilge of my boat on the engine. Bright white decks and a dark bilge makes it hard to see that dam spark plug or bolt I would drop.
Get MORE light.
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on Mar 14th, 2006, 11:44am, CHTom wrote:To "imnotbub"";
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I'm not bub, my son is. I am THE GREAT BUB!
Actually they are characters in a story I wrote. I do, though, call my son 'the bub'.
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« Reply #18 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 9:14pm » |
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« Reply #19 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 9:25pm » |
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My mom has one contact for distance and one for close up. Took her awhile to get used to them, though!
My eye doc once told me I had to get reading glasses because I sit at the piano and stare at the music without even blinking. That was probably when I *WAS* 20!! But I guess being a pianist made it special circumstances... He thought the eye strain was making my headaches worse. I bought them and wore them to read or play even when I had my contacts in. However, they were giving me worse headaches - so I think they went in the trash! haha...
Good luck with that!
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« Reply #20 on: Mar 15th, 2006, 1:27am » |
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I've been wearing nothing but reading glasses for so long until now. I just picked up my new progressives last week. Scary seeing in my mirror just what a wizened old thing I've become. Now I can lean back and read the board and actually see all the stupid cable tv I have. 
These things weigh almost nothing and now I wouldn't be without the things.
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on Mar 15th, 2006, 1:27am, Charlie wrote:| Scary seeing in my mirror just what a wizened old thing I've become. |
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A legend in your own mind. The "Gandalf" position was filled years ago.
on Mar 15th, 2006, 1:27am, Charlie wrote:| Now I can lean back and read the board and actually see all the stupid cable tv I have. |
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #22 on: Mar 15th, 2006, 8:33am » |
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I was never bothered much by my bifocals. Got a little dizzy mounting a radar on a mast once while wearing them once a couple of years ago. But thats about it.
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Re: I think I'm getting old (not growing up)
« Reply #23 on: Mar 15th, 2006, 8:41am » |
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I wore bifocals for a long time, then TRI-focals -- then I had catarac surgery and went back to reading glasses for the computer -- does this mean I'm regressing back to childhood
Hey about growing up --- I decided a long time ago - it's not what it's cracked up to be so I decided to skip that part -- of course at my age now -- I can be childish and no one thinks anything about it -- They just call it eccentric.... 
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on Mar 15th, 2006, 8:41am, BarbaraD wrote:-- They just call it eccentric....
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Is that what its called Barbara? I just thought you were nuts.....
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