eyes

[forgotten_aria]

So WAY back when (15ys?), I got an eye exam to get fitted for contacts and at the time I knew I might need glasses. (My vision has been a little blurry most of my life.) At the time I said, "should I avoid squinting, it puts everything into focus?" The doctor said, "I've given you drops, you can't squint." At the time I had my doctor stupidity on (this is the effect that when I'm in a doctors office, I will listen to what they have to say without much thought then afterwards be ("what was I thinking?") And so he determined I didn't need glasses.

Last week I decided I was squinting too much, and that not only was my face getting tired, but I think I was making faces at people, so I decided to have another eye exam. I found good reviews for the doctor at the Woburn target and went to see her. I'm sure most of you who get eye exams regularly won't be as amazed by I am, but she put me in a machine that I assume measured the roundness of my eye and said, "you have an astigmatism, I have no clue why you aren't already wearing glasses." I mostly knew this because my blurriness is very obviously worse in one direction.

She was quite patient with me, explaining things like she was going to back off the prescription a little so I could get used to it without getting motion sick and showed me the compromise between distance and reading (I didn't want to jump right into progressives for my first pair.) I left very happy with Dr. Li. What was nice is she wasn't actually affiliated directly with target, she was an independant doctor with her office in target, so there was no hard sell to get the

I spent a little bit in target trying on some frames. Of course I fall in love with the $273 frames, but I had heard good things about mail order glasses. I now have some glasses on order form Zenni Optical, two pairs for $45, including the lenses. I hope they'll be good. I worry at that price I'm giving something up, but also know that eye glasses are one of those artificially expensive things because of the Luxottica Monopoly, but it's also always chancy buying stuff from China, which is basically what Zenni Optical is.

In my circle of friends, glasses wearing is normal, so I feel like getting glasses is perfectly natural. And my vision is still good enough I don't have to wear them while doing TKD.

It was interesting how wrong I was about what would look good on my face. What I thought I wanted wasn't what actually looked good when put on, so here's hoping one of the two pairs I ordered will look good.