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Author Topic: Bifocals (ARGGGHHHH) Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 19, 2009 05:49 PM                       Well, I finally got there. Had to go to bifocals today and, well, they SUCK!!! Feel like I'm drunk. Wishing I was drunk. I think I'm gonna puke. This fishbowl effect is killing me. Got out of my pickup when I got home and as I walked between the truck and car, I turned my head. The illusion was that both vehicles were rolling backwards. 'Bout jumped clean outta my skin. How long does this crap last? Anything you old farts can tell me that I might want to know? My eyes hurt. -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Paul Melching Radical Operator Forum "You won't get past the front gate" Member # 885 posted August 19, 2009 06:02 PM                   Yeah Lance this is where it starts and its downhill from there lol -------------------- Those who value security over liberty soon will have neither ! Posts: 4188 | From: The forest ! north of the dez. | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Aznative FARTS ON CLUELESS LIBERALS Member # 506 posted August 19, 2009 06:26 PM                   I hate to tell what's next. Getting old isn't for whimps. -------------------- Never thought the devil would need a teleprompter but I could be wrong. United State of America: RIP Born July 4th 1776 died November 6th 2012 Posts: 1937 | From: Phoenix Az | Registered: Jan 2005  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 19, 2009 07:13 PM                       Oh, I'm well past the beginning. Five years ago, just after my 40th b-day, I went to the doctor and requested the full Monte. Told him I was feeling pretty good and knew, from my years in EMS, the importance of establishing baseline numbers to be used for comparisons later on. He commended me for my being so proactive. Six months later, I experienced a reaction to a steroid I was given for allergies and experienced a fun-filled hypertensive crisis where my BP went to 248/122. I could feel my heart just pounding in my neck and ears, and as if that wasn't bad enough, the pounding quickly revealed an irregularity in my heart beat. Many tests later, we found a small problem with my heart that has probably been with me since childhood, if not birth, and it's still there, but no big deal. Right after that, I blew a disc in my neck for the first time. Let me tell ya... that's the kinda pain that'll make ye shit nekkid babies, boys. My gawd that hurt! Happened again not too long later and I lost the use of my right arm for two weeks. I now wish it on my worst enemies. Told the doc that I was better off not knowing how healthy I am and just wanna go back to ignorant. This past season, I ruptured a disc in my lower back, if you can believe this, calling coyotes. I guess, according to the physical therapist that treated me, the way I sit - crosslegged on the ground leaning slightly forward at the waist - is bad. Hey guys? When your legs go numb after about fifteen minutes, IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE STRAINING THE SPOT WHERE THE NERVES GO THROUGH THE DISC IN YOUR SPINE AND, IF YOU DON'T STOP, YOU'LL BLOW A BIG-ASSED HOLE IN THE SIDE OF IT AND, BTW, IT HURTS REALLY, REALLY BAD! Healthy now, thanks to those 8 shots right into the nerve root. THAT HURTS, TOO! So, what's the trade off here? Aging and pain? When do the good times start? -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged RagnCajn ADDS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Member # 879 posted August 19, 2009 07:41 PM                    I went through the same thing last year. Two pair of glasses. One for reading and one for everything else. I opted for Lasik at the age of 48. Wish I had done it earlier. I now have 20-20 vision. I will probably need reading glasses in a few years and I need some asistance in the form of some type of magnifcation still today if I am working on something tedius. If you are a candidate for Lasik, I highly recommend it. Posts: 362 | From: Shreveport LA | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Dave Allen Hi, I'm SUPER DAVE, IN CHARGE OF Q STUFF (and Goat Leader) "I'm really not trying to be a dick". Member # 3102 posted August 19, 2009 08:32 PM                   I'm with you guy's. I will admit that I'm "envious" of those who enjoy good vision. I'm 45 years old & have needed vision correction since I was about 15 years old. I started wearing contact lenses @ 19 years old. As I'm getting older I wear my contacts 3-4 weeks, then a week or so with glasses to give my eyes a break. Everything was fine until three years ago, I then found myself reaching for my bosses 1x power reading glasses too read fine print. While wearing contacts..Lol.. I wear contacts mostly & keep 1x power reading glasses on hand @ all times, when I wear glasses I peak over them too read fine print !! Ya can't win !! [ August 19, 2009, 09:51 PM: Message edited by: Dave Allen ] Posts: 1986 | From: Jordan Valley Oregon | Registered: Aug 2008  |  IP: Logged Kokopelli SENIOR DISCOUNT & Dispenser of Sage Advice Member # 633 posted August 19, 2009 08:40 PM                      I've got the 'no line' bi-focals. They tried to kill me for about the first 6 months by making things seem to be where they weren't. Not too bad now. -------------------- And lo, the Light of the Trump shown upon the Darkness and the Darkness could not comprehend it. Posts: 8232 | From: Under a wandering star | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 19, 2009 10:22 PM                       One word: blended trifocal polycarbonate. -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32366 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 20, 2009 04:43 AM                       Mine are no-line bifoacls, and yeah, they tend to make things where they aren't. I can't wear polycarbonate. I guess a percentage of people can't. Last year, they made my lenses out of polycarbonate because "it's better" and something about them just made me miserable. Felt like my eyes were trying to climb right of the sockets trying to focus on stuff. Tried contacts last year, too, but I have astigmatism in my right eye and I just couldn't get used to that thing being in my right eye. Always felt like I had sand in there. Been wearing glasses since I was 13, and needed them long before that but never complained. I always thought the world was supposed to be a abit out of focus. Can't imagine being able to open your eyes, sit up in bed and see everything crystal clear. After a night's rest, the fish bowling seems less noticeable. The doctor's staff told me to just wear them and resist the temptation to put on my old ones as it will just prolong the growing accustomed period. -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Kokopelli SENIOR DISCOUNT & Dispenser of Sage Advice Member # 633 posted August 20, 2009 09:18 AM                      Best advice that I can give you is to learn to point your nose at what you want to see. Sounds hokey but it will help. It just takes a while. Stairs are a load of fun too. Most folks can walk down stairs with barely a glance at the steps. Things change when the glance shows two or three focal planes. One step at a time & easy does it. Be glad that you're getting used to them now instead of in the winter when there may be ice involved. Oh.......... and small children will make fun of the way you walk. Might as well get used to that too 'cause as your back, hips & knees give out from age, it will be an ongoing thing. Cheers!! -------------------- And lo, the Light of the Trump shown upon the Darkness and the Darkness could not comprehend it. Posts: 8232 | From: Under a wandering star | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Bob Mc Knows what it's all about Member # 237 posted August 20, 2009 12:23 PM                       I hate bifocals, especially for walking. I only use them to see with. Actually I would rather have 2 pairs of glasses; one pair to see out yonder (driving etc) and another pair for reading. Someone told me long ago not to ever get old, but do you think I would listen? Posts: 15 | From: Northern California | Registered: Sep 2003  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 20, 2009 05:04 PM                       Well, now, Kokopelli, that does pose a quandry. I have 538 houses on my mail route, and most of them have at least a stair to navigate, not to mention the 14 miles of walkiing it takes to get from the first to the last. Your information concerns me. LOL Actually, today was the first day wearing them on the route and I'm already seeing some improvement in my adjustment to them. Did manage to misstep off four stairs this afternoon but never went to the ground. Out in the open, I do okay. Here at the house, indoors, where things are close up, it's still pretty hinky. And, yes, everyone keeps telling me to point my nose at what I'm trying to see. Only problem I have left is that there's a gawdamned fly buzzing around me right now and I've missed him three times with the swatter. -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Kokopelli SENIOR DISCOUNT & Dispenser of Sage Advice Member # 633 posted August 20, 2009 08:30 PM                      "..... a fly buzzing around & I've missed him three times with the swatter" The Force, CDog........... Use the Force. -------------------- And lo, the Light of the Trump shown upon the Darkness and the Darkness could not comprehend it. Posts: 8232 | From: Under a wandering star | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged DanS Scorched Earth (AZ Sector) Member # 316 posted August 22, 2009 10:30 AM                   I've been wearing bi-focals for about the last eight years, since I turned 40. Sucks, that I am thinking of getting trifocals for work so I can read stuff over my head when I have to look up at work. I thought about getting that lasic or whatever surgery, but I have an astigmatism, (hope I spelled them right). I'm also a bit scared of putting my eyes under a knife/lazor/ whatever. -------------------- futuaris nisi irrisus ridebis Saepe Expertus, Semper Fidelis, Fratres Aeterni: Often Tested, Always Faithful. Brothers Forever! Posts: 1482 | From: flyover country | Registered: Feb 2004  |  IP: Logged 3 Toes El Guapo Member # 1327 posted August 23, 2009 05:35 AM                   Good grief Lance, you're falling apart at the seams. I think we are roughly the same age. I'm sure glad I'm holding together better! I had my eyes checked a year or so ago and was found to still be 20/20. I told the doc I didn't think I could see as good as I used to, but he said I still see better than most. My wife on the other hand is either going to have to break down for reading glasses or grow longer arms. -------------------- Violence may not be the best option.... But it is still an option. Posts: 1034 | From: out yonder | Registered: Apr 2007  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 23, 2009 08:31 AM                       Yeah, Cal, what you said. I'm starting to think maybe I should have tried something a little easier on the frame, like rodeo. LOL You should feel lucky. As rough as some of my days are getting, looking around, I think I have it better than most. What is it they say about "golden years"? -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 23, 2009 11:24 AM                       Yeah, the "Golden Years", deserving it's own topic. Like Lance and Cal, I'll be getting there, one of these days. I broke my toe getting out of bed a couple days ago, I shit you not. I sprained my wrist just digging up a yucca the day before. I didn't sign up for this, I want my money back! Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32366 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted August 23, 2009 01:12 PM                       "I broke my toe getting out of bed a couple days ago, I shit you not. I sprained my wrist just digging up a yucca the day before." ------------------------------- Too many Birthdays often causes those things Leonard. As for glasses, you would look real masculine with a pair of those itty bitty, round lense glasses in wire frames on ya. The girls would simply swoon when they saw you with those things on. Honest they would Leonard. I wouldn't kid around about something that serious ya know. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 23, 2009 02:29 PM                       Thanks for that advice, Rich. I can tell you with all due modesty, that it has not been necessary, so far? But, one never knows when they lose that MOJO, does one? Good hunting. LB PS seriously, small lenses do not leave much room for trifocals. And, if you guys have not yet found the need to focus at distances greater than normal reading, out to 30 inches or so, then you aren't so much of a handyman. [ August 23, 2009, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ] -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32366 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted August 24, 2009 01:34 AM                       Maybe if you'd have listened to your Mother's warning, you wouldn't be going blind now..... -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted August 24, 2009 07:15 AM                   Im putting it off. Ive had prescription glasses for about 3 yrs now. I wear my sunglasses when I can cause nobody knows they are script and they look kewl and I got light sensitive eyes anyway, so it works out good. I wont wear my other ones if anyone is around, ANYONE. I guess its foolish pride. Now, my eyes are deteriorating. My wife laughed the other day when I told her I could see shapes and light. Im not jokin gawddammit! Those big green roadsigns on the interstate, the ones anyone can read from 1/8 mile or so and I always prided myself on reading from 1/2 mile or better? Well, Im lucky if in a strange place if I can read those damned things before missing an exit! And thats with those damned script sunglasses. Im going to have to break down and go back to that damned eye guy. Not to mention hearing. I do more and more nodding and smiling. My wife gets pissed thinking Im ignoring her but I just plain cant hear shit. I had my ears cleaned a couple times recently and it helped just a little, but not much. Smellers about done. Last night I was in town and appearantly they had a sewage leak and appearantly it stunk like hell. At least thats what everyone around me kept telling me. I couldnt tell ya if they are a bunch of damned liars or not. Im not even going to get into the whole lumbar, neck, ankle, knee problems I have been dealing with forever. And now, since I broke my damned elbow a couple months ago, appearantly thats not all that happened in that fall, other problems are now showing up that the sling is gone, I will know Wednesday when I get back from the Orthopedic Surgeon, but I can add most likely shoulder and more neck troubles to the list. My cholesterol runs right around the high mark, about 200, as long as I take the pill everyday. Otherwise its about 375. My blood pressure has been pretty good, unless Im in pain, then it spikes. Problem is, I cant hardly move without some sort of pain shooting down a leg or arm, so it spikes several times a day. Gettin old aint for pussies. Oh yeah, and Ill be 42 on the 15th of next month. Me and LB are the same age! [ August 24, 2009, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: Andy L ] -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 24, 2009 09:32 AM                       You still can't get anything right! I said I was BORN in '42, you knucklehead! Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32366 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted August 24, 2009 09:40 AM                   ROTFLMFAO Yeah, but that must be a special day for both of us to claim it as our birthday, eh? -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 24, 2009 10:07 AM                       Oh? I don't remember that, but you are correct. I will tell you one thing, birthdays do indeed fly by! I'm constantly moving the goalposts, as far as who's old, and who's a whippersnapper. Hell, my black suit is 42....regular. Good hunting. LB PS I hope you and your shine make the ronde. -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32366 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged TOM64 Knows what it's all about Member # 561 posted August 24, 2009 10:33 AM                   I turn 45 tommorrow. I can't hear crap, I can't see anything up close, my right knee is going and my hands go to sleep but that's a good thing, when they ain't asleep they ache. But my BP is fine and I'm in pretty good shape considering. Getting old sucks but it's better than the alternative. Posts: 2283 | From: okieland | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged

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