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[tephra]

I had a few moments of sheer panic today. I wasn't feeling too well (am still not feeling wonderful) so I took a nap. When I woke up my glasses were missing.

Without my glasses I'm not legal to drive. Now for a lot of people the response is "well I know where I'm going so I don't have to read signs" but that's not the case for me. Without my glasses any car, pickup truck, or SUV that is nearly the color of the pavement blends into the pavement until they're just a handful of car lengths away. I can spot the bigger vehicles further away than the cars, but something like a Honda Civic is basically invisible until far too close for comfort.

Unfortunately, and especially with my current completely rimless glasses, I also can't see my glasses unless they either 1) shine in the light, 2) contrast greatly with the surface they are on, or 3) are within two feet of my face. I once "lost" them on the vanity top at athelind and quelonzia's when I took them off to blow dry my hair. Sitting on a very well lit white surface in the shadow of a dragon sculpture made me have to use the "get within two feet" approach to find them.

I'm sure the cats found it funny to watch me very carefully get off the bed and down on my knees so that I could feel my way through the shadows between the desk and the bed and find my glasses by touch alone.

I don't think I've ever been this envious of my brother having his eyes zapped (lasik) before. :P

Comments

[toshirodragon.livejournal.com]

*hunts up my glasses and pats you on the back* I feel your pain!

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It's one of the great injustices of the world that you can't find your glasses unless you have your glasses on.

I actually make a point of keeping a back-up pair in a big, clunky, hard-to-miss protective case in an easily-locatable place (usually my sock drawer).

Or I did before the move... oh crap.

[darkkdragon.livejournal.com]

Thats not good. I hope ye find them okay :/

[darkkdragon.livejournal.com]

Well... duh *smacks forehead* Of course ye found them, otherwise you would not be typing this entry.
*hangs head*
I need more coffee...

[tephra]

I found them. :) Once I figured out they weren't in the clutter on the desk and were probably on the floor it was just a matter of carefully feeling around for them.

Part of my problem is I'm right eye dominant, and my right eye is my "bad" eye (very nearsighted in that one). If I close/cover my right eye I can see well enough to operate a computer without resorting to practically putting my nose on the screen. I can actually see decently with just my left eye (though still nearsighted) but I can't when using both because of the astigmatism in the left eye and the nearsightedness in the right makes for double vision. Text basically has a fuzzy drop shadow of the same color down and to the right and twisted clockwise a few degrees*. :P

*Well, actually, the sharp text is rotated to the left and the blurry to the right. Both eyes have astigmatism, just to different degrees and opposite directions. And both eyes fight for dominance so the text doesn't really stay put either but sort of floats around a bit. It makes me a bit seasick.

[tephra]

I have an older prescription in the console of the Jeep, and my sunglasses (also an older prescription) of course, so I could get around. The astigmatism would be corrected but the nearsightedness would be notable driving. Thankfully it's been well over a decade since I had dramatic prescription changes. These days I usually get three to five years between (tiny) changes.

Good luck finding your Emergency Backup Glasses. :)

[tephra]

It was horrible! I couldn't read my Masara Minase fix! *weeps*wails*

But it's all cool now. :)