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I am amazed at the way optometrist's appointments can be streamlined now. My doctor has some fancy retina-scanning machine, and if you're willing to pay the small upcharge for the service, it takes away the need for most of the annoying eye doctor procedures, like having your pupils dilated, staring at their ear while they shine a flashlight into your eyes, and it seemed to shave a lot of time off the "read this next line" test. I've been in glasses since I was eight, and I tend to dread eye exams because they were always tedious and took forever.
I mentioned the issue I'd been having with close-up reading and she says it's likely not a test problem - I'd said I thought I had maybe answered some of the reading test questions wrong because it seemed like as soon as I got my new lenses, I couldn't see anything close to my face. She says it's a very common, almost universal phenomenon where a part of your eye that focuses close up loses its elasticity, and it can be corrected with ... multi-focal lenses!
It's a fancy way of saying "bifocals," and "Bird is absolutely ancient." Someone pass me a cane so I can wave it threateningly at teenagers.
On the other hand my changes in diet and routine are helping my body recomp go along nicely. I've managed to get my metabolism running well enough that I'm hot much of the time - not hot flashes, just continuous, lower-level warmth. It's much better than constantly freezing. It makes sleep worse, because it's difficult to actually "turn off" but the overheating thing wakes me up during the night. I bought myself a bamboo fiber blanket, which ought to allow me to sleep cooler while still having the weight and pressure of a blanket. But I'm eating enough calories to continue to lose fat while still nailing my workouts and not feel like death.
The Crows found that beheaded rat and made off with it, LOL.
I honestly kind of want to go back to my old contacts just so I can get a pair of reading glasses that would sit on the end of my nose, and I could peer judgmentally at people over the tops.
I mentioned the issue I'd been having with close-up reading and she says it's likely not a test problem - I'd said I thought I had maybe answered some of the reading test questions wrong because it seemed like as soon as I got my new lenses, I couldn't see anything close to my face. She says it's a very common, almost universal phenomenon where a part of your eye that focuses close up loses its elasticity, and it can be corrected with ... multi-focal lenses!
It's a fancy way of saying "bifocals," and "Bird is absolutely ancient." Someone pass me a cane so I can wave it threateningly at teenagers.
On the other hand my changes in diet and routine are helping my body recomp go along nicely. I've managed to get my metabolism running well enough that I'm hot much of the time - not hot flashes, just continuous, lower-level warmth. It's much better than constantly freezing. It makes sleep worse, because it's difficult to actually "turn off" but the overheating thing wakes me up during the night. I bought myself a bamboo fiber blanket, which ought to allow me to sleep cooler while still having the weight and pressure of a blanket. But I'm eating enough calories to continue to lose fat while still nailing my workouts and not feel like death.
The Crows found that beheaded rat and made off with it, LOL.
I honestly kind of want to go back to my old contacts just so I can get a pair of reading glasses that would sit on the end of my nose, and I could peer judgmentally at people over the tops.
