I'm an official old lady today

[Horse with no Name]

and pretty fucking mad about it.
Went to the eye doctor today...when in reality, I should have gone to a different kind of doctor.
See, my problem is that my ARMS aren't long enough anymore.
Anyone know what causes them to shorten?
Anyway...this Frankenstein said I needed bifocals.
BIFOCALS. That is what my grandma wore.
:sigh:
From perfect vision to bifocals.
How the hell does this happen?
And thank goodness for no-line ones--at LEAST I won't look completely like granny.

[Broken_Hero]

1. sorry...

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

2. Sweetie, I've worn no-line bifocals for about 5 years.

And I'm only 50.

You might want to donate to the Foundation for the Discovery of the Cause of Shortened Arm Syndrome. Lots of us suffer from it.

(And, you are NOT an old lady! :hug: )

[Horse with no Name]

3. So my insistence that he is wrong

is probably just denial?
:hug:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Likely so.

But don't denigrate your age -- embrace it! Believe me, we DO get better with age! Bifocals and all. :hug:

[hfojvt]

13. "only 50" ONLY?

:wtf: is so 'only' about 50?

That's being booked (as in "Book 'em, Dano.") and you say it like "I'm only 25" or "I'm only 30." 50 is too far 'up there' to use the adverb 'only' with.

I am 44.5 however, and had to buy a magnifying glass to read the index of my atlas and mint marks on coins.

[SeattleGirl]

15. Age is a state of mind, far more so than it is a state of being.

As my mother always says, "You're not old until you're a hundred and three and FEEL it."

[Floogeldy]

4. How old are you?

;)

[reyd reid reed]

6. I got mine a few weeks ago.

I've needed them for the past few years, though. And I've gotta admit, I like the no-line part. I'd like to put off looking like someone's grandmother...namely mine...for as long as I can.

[WCGreen]

8. I have resisted the bifocal thing....

Cause I love the way glasses shoved up on top of my head make my hair look...

[reyd reid reed]

9. I resisted it too...

But I can't really push the glasses on top of my head...just doesn't work and then my hair pushes 'em back down anyway. I was doing the 'peering over' thing...and realized that that made me look even older than the bifocals would. Either that or taking 'em off...and putting 'em back...and taking 'em off...and putting 'em back...and taking 'em off...and putting 'em back.

[WCGreen]

11. I can read without glasses but need them to drive and see things

about 30 feet away clearly...

[reyd reid reed]

12. It got to the point where I COULDN'T read with them.

I had to take them off if I wanted to read or write anything...even to sign my name on a permission slip or whatever. But I couldn't see anything that was more than five feet in front of me. I'd have to take the glass off to edit something or to read my changes...yet the computer screen was too far away to see well without them.

I was eating Advil like m&ms.

[Suich]

7. I wear reading glasses...

would those work for you?

:hi:

[mykpart]

10. I have bifocals,

false teeth and estrogen patches, and I'm not an old lady. And even if I were, it would be better than the alternative!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

14. It's not the end of the world.

I was the only one of my two brothers and my sister that didn't need glasses because of short arms.

I lost my distance vision. I can still to this day read the newspaper, phone book, or post on the Internet etc, but if I'm driving or 3 feet away from the TV, I need my glasses.

In fact when I got "the bad news" eleven years ago, the three of them had a major laugh at my expense. I'm the youngest of the bunch.

Life goes on....

[graywarrior]

16. Hey, I'm pre-glaucomic

That's old.

[seemunkee]

17. I just started having to wear reading glasses

and I'm having a tough time getting used to them. I seem to have problems focusing after taking them off.

[av8rdave]

18. I know how you feel....

My FAA medical license finally dictated reading glasses this year. I thought I'd done a good job putting it off, but was still disappointed.

I don't put them on unless I absolutely HAVE to!