OT - NO POLITICS Hazy Days of Winter.

[Gee Wally]

had a very not cool discovery today. I just turned 40 in January. You’ll see why it matters.

Last night I noticed my eyes couldn’t focus anything within a couple feet space from my melon. I chalked it up to a long day, fighting off some sea sickness, fatigue, i just wasn’t feeling the best yesterday.

I woke up this morning and it’s still the same. I’m hoping it’s just a symptom of the scopolamine patches or something. But i don’t like it. I’ve been doing the weird “head down but peaking over the top of my glasses while extending my phone and bringing it closer until i can read it” move

If this is what they say is “forty eyes” then i don’t want it. A very harsh and sobering realization out in the middle of the Caribbean.

Hate to break it to you Chuck but Old Man Time always wins.
Today is the best you will be .

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

Hate to break it to you Chuck but Old Man Time always wins.
Today is the best you will be .

So I'll be 35 next month, i should be cherishing the final good eyes days i guess.

 

[caz16]

So I'll be 35 next month, i should be cherishing the final good eyes days i guess.

If you wear glasses for distance, you may be spared several years for close up. I have a slight prescription (-1.00) and didn't have a lot of trouble reading close up until I was in my mid-50s.

 

[Gee Wally]

So I'll be 35 next month, i should be cherishing the final good eyes days i guess.

Everyone’s mileage will vary. I was always nearsighted. Wore glasses. Had Lasik about 20 years ago. Now wear glasses again to drive.
Just got CVS el cheapo reading glasses a couple of months ago. Could no longer see small print.
Ill be 67 in a couple of weeks so not too bad.

I do have cataracts but my eye doc wants to hold out surgery until 70 if I can. Only wants to have them done once.

That also drives home my thoughts on my own mortality.
It is what it is.

 

[Ladyfan]

If you wear glasses for distance, you may be spared several years for close up. I have a slight prescription (-1.00) and didn't have a lot of trouble reading close up until I was in my mid-50s.

I wear contacts (sometime glasses) for distance. When I was in my 50s I had to wear cheaters over my contact lenses to see up close. At night when I take out my contacts I can read with no glasses.

Sometimes I feel like I need 4 different prescriptions to see different distances...it is always something

 

[RoccoF14]

So I'll be 35 next month, i should be cherishing the final good eyes days i guess.

Absolutely. I also learned that 35 was right about the age I started pulling muscles during sports activities. Prior to that age, I’d just show up and play…..once I hit 35, my body started hating me and I had to learn to work in a pre-game stretch and a post game cool down.

 

[Johnny Upton]

had a very not cool discovery today. I just turned 40 in January. You’ll see why it matters.

Last night I noticed my eyes couldn’t focus anything within a couple feet space from my melon. I chalked it up to a long day, fighting off some sea sickness, fatigue, i just wasn’t feeling the best yesterday.

I woke up this morning and it’s still the same. I’m hoping it’s just a symptom of the scopolamine patches or something. But i don’t like it. I’ve been doing the weird “head down but peaking over the top of my glasses while extending my phone and bringing it closer until i can read it” move

If this is what they say is “forty eyes” then i don’t want it. A very harsh and sobering realization out in the middle of the Caribbean.

Yeah….this happened to me too.

I changed careers and moved into IT 11 years ago. My eyes would be tired by the end of the day, so my doctor recommended I get reading glasses. As time went on, I found myself wearing them more and more and now, I pretty much can’t see without them. It sucks but I have accepted my fate.

 

[Bruinaura]

I was driving home tonight and saw a late 90s Camaro like I used to have, in mint condition. My only thought was "I wish I felt like I did when I could get in and out of that car without multiple body parts screaming at me" lol