I Feel Like I'm In Timbuk3....

[littlebeast13]

Because everything's so bright, I gotta wear shades. Really, I am wearing shades as I type this....

After a week of having eye problems (red, sore, itchy, blurry, you name it), I finally did what i should have done years ago and had an eye exam. Since they dilated my eyes, everything looks bright and blurry.

The eye doctor didn't see anything wrong, but did write me a prescription for glasses (Can I borrow an "ugh", Kazoo?), which I'll get in about a week or two, and I'll only need them occasionally, like for driving (The real test, though, will come in April when I try to read ballplayers' jersey numbers during batting practice, which I haven't been able to see from the outfield for the last decade or so...). She had a hell of a time getting the drops in my eyes, because I've never put eye drops in my eyes before, and always dreaded ever having to do so. As it turns out, given that my eyes actually look white for the first time in a week, I may have to start getting used to putting drops in myself....

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[Ritterskoop]

I am a huge eye wuss. When I put in drops, I lie down on the bed or couch, tilt my head back, close my eyes, and drop the liquid in the corner of my eye near the nose. Then I use my fingers to pry my eye open, and the medicine or artificial tears can ook its way in there. The doctor people said it's fine; you don't lose much of the stuff.

[MarleysGh0st]

Ugh, indeed! How can you even look at a computer monitor with your eyes dilated?

And you not even being used to the daylight...

[littlebeast13]

Ugh, indeed! How can you even look at a computer monitor with your eyes dilated?

And you not even being used to the daylight...

Well, I was having enough trouble looking at the monitor before. Your ghostly glow must be too bright...

Either that, or it's the glare off all those bald MAWGish heads out there....

lb13

[T_Bone0806]

Ugh, indeed! How can you even look at a computer monitor with your eyes dilated?

And you not even being used to the daylight...

Well, I was having enough trouble looking at the monitor before. Your ghostly glow must be too bright...

Either that, or it's the glare off all those bald MAWGish heads out there....

lb13

With me, you'd only have to worry about that if I turned my back to you!

[AnnieCamaro]

With me, you'd only have to worry about that if I turned my back to you!

You shave your back?

/:shock:\

[ulysses5019]

You shave your back?

Yup he sure does.....and here is the avatar to prove it...

Dunno the significance of the number "3".....maybe it has something to do with Suzie Creamcheese.....

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

I got a wheresgeorge this morning so I logged it and then spent it on lunch at McDonalds. It started out in Florida and had already been logged here.

[tanstaafl2]

Because everything's so bright, I gotta wear shades. Really, I am wearing shades as I type this....

After a week of having eye problems (red, sore, itchy, blurry, you name it), I finally did what i should have done years ago and had an eye exam. Since they dilated my eyes, everything looks bright and blurry.

The eye doctor didn't see anything wrong, but did write me a prescription for glasses (Can I borrow an "ugh", Kazoo?), which I'll get in about a week or two, and I'll only need them occasionally, like for driving (The real test, though, will come in April when I try to read ballplayers' jersey numbers during batting practice, which I haven't been able to see from the outfield for the last decade or so...). She had a hell of a time getting the drops in my eyes, because I've never put eye drops in my eyes before, and always dreaded ever having to do so. As it turns out, given that my eyes actually look white for the first time in a week, I may have to start getting used to putting drops in myself....

lb13

Knowing nothing about your prescription I suspect you would be better served wearing them all the time. Sounds as though you are near sighted at the very least. But that is up to you of course.

As to putting drops in eyes a couple of coat hangers are good for pulling those particularly stubborn lids open...



The whiteness is most likely simply a side effect of the dilating drops and won't last long. But having chronically fatigued eyes from not having a glasses prescription could also be contributing to the redness.

[littlebeast13]

The whiteness is most likely simply a side effect of the dilating drops and won't last long. But having chronically fatigued eyes from not having a glasses prescription could also be contributing to the redness.

Yep, the redness was back within a few hours.

Where's Ben Stein when you need him....

lb13

[ulysses5019]

Yeah, where is Ben Stein......anyone, anyone?

[MarleysGh0st]

Yeah, where is Ben Stein......anyone, anyone?

Well, he's got a movie in support of Intelligent Design that opens in April.

http://www.expelledthemovie.com/

And, in the meantime, he still writes about the stock market and stuff.

http://www.benstein.com/stein2.html

[tanstaafl2]

Yeah, where is Ben Stein......anyone, anyone?

He still makes the occasional editorial appearance on the CBS Sunday Morning show

[minimetoo26]

I am also an occasional glasses wearer, because I can't use them for close-up work like reading without getting a headache. I also do not need reading glasses yet, although I have passed the magic milestone of 40. I just broke the right templepiece, and I'm going to see if I can get bifocals with just clear glass in the bottom so I don't have to push up the glasses to read while watching TV.

Transitions lenses do not work in the car, so get prescription sunglasses while you are at it.

[littlebeast13]

I am also an occasional glasses wearer, because I can't use them for close-up work like reading without getting a headache. I also do not need reading glasses yet, although I have passed the magic milestone of 40. I just broke the right templepiece, and I'm going to see if I can get bifocals with just clear glass in the bottom so I don't have to push up the glasses to read while watching TV.

Transitions lenses do not work in the car, so get prescription sunglasses while you are at it.

I almost never wear sunglasses, even when my vampire carcass ventures outside in the bright sunshine. The only reason I had a pair laying around was because I bought them in Cincy last year after I discovered that the best place to watch BP from was looking directly into the sun. But the sunglasses suck and always fog up... they even did it when I was wearing them inside yesterday!

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[MarleysGh0st]

Transitions lenses do not work in the car, so get prescription sunglasses while you are at it.

Even at their darkest, Transition lens aren't that effective as sunglasses, IHMO. Especially in strong, southern sunlight. I have clip-on sunglass lens to use with my prescription glasses.

[Rexer25]

Transitions lenses do not work in the car, so get prescription sunglasses while you are at it.

Even at their darkest, Transition lens aren't that effective as sunglasses, IHMO. Especially in strong, southern sunlight. I have clip-on sunglass lens to use with my prescription glasses.

You are such a nerd!

Posted by one who can't even find his clip-on sunglasses right now...

[MarleysGh0st]

You are such a nerd!

But of course!

I did have a pair of prescription sunglasses once, but I lost them during my first Play It! visit at DCA.

[tanstaafl2]

I am also an occasional glasses wearer, because I can't use them for close-up work like reading without getting a headache. I also do not need reading glasses yet, although I have passed the magic milestone of 40. I just broke the right templepiece, and I'm going to see if I can get bifocals with just clear glass in the bottom so I don't have to push up the glasses to read while watching TV.

Transitions lenses do not work in the car, so get prescription sunglasses while you are at it.

If you are having to push your glasses up to read then you do indeed need bifocals. You just don't need reading glasses because the uncorrected state of your eyes is basically the equivalent reading add you would need.

You can certainly get bifocals and they may well be the equivalent of clear glass. It depends largely on your current prescription. If you are near sighted (myopic) and don't have astigmatism your lens would be concave to bend the rays of light appropriately and is typically described with a negative value, -2.00 sphere for example. The near add in bifocals is convex and bends light the other way. So if your bifocal add on a -2.00 prescription is +2.00 and as a result the bifocal would appears as "plain glass".

Only if you can see normally at near and far without glasses are you able to say that you don't have presbyopia (a need for additional assistance for accomodation to read).


There is a new type of lens made by the same company that makes transitions lenses that are both polarized and will also get darker inside a car because it is not dependent on UV light like transitions lenses are. They are called "Drivewear" and start out a light yellowish green, get darker in a car, and then darker still outside. I have worn transitions for years but have never tried the Drivewear brand. I just keep a good dark polarized pair of sunglasses in my car. Polarization helps me a great deal with the glare off cars in front of me.