I went up to Tripler today for my quarterly exam by the ENT guys, and once again they admired their surgical work and post-operative care. Nearly two years have gone by now and there’s no sign of a recurrence of the mouth cancer. That’s good.
I then went over to the optical shop to pick up a new pair of glasses. I finally got a new prescription from the eye docs, who’d gotten sidetracked by the visual field test for glaucoma. I didn’t do well on it the first time I took it. My eyes kept wandering away from the center light.
Here’s what they look like:
I like the style because there’s no full frame around the lenses. These glasses are almost invisible on my face. But, I’m not sure they’re going to work. For one thing, they are much smaller than my previous pair. That means virtually 5/8 of each lens is made up of the bifocal section. So far that’s difficult to get accustomed to.
For another, I’m used to sitting back in my desk chair nearly three feet away from the monitor. For whatever reason, I can’t do that with these and see the screen clearly. I have to sit up straight and no more than two feet away or even closer, about 18 inches.
The optician transcribed the prescription onto her order form. I’m beginning to wonder if she wrote it down wrongly, or if the company which made the lenses screwed up. I’ll give it a couple of days and if it doesn’t improve I’ll make an appointment to see the eye doctors again.
This is frustrating.
Could you need trifocals/computer glasses? I have a pair of each; they make using a computer much more comfortable.
I’ve used Trifocals and they’re more trouble than they’re worth. The second “line” gives you awful reflections driving at night.
Problems like this result from a difference of opinion between you and the optometrist about how far away your monitor is – and he won’t tell you what he assumes. I finally had to have my husband measure the distance from my face to the monitor on my desktop. I actually have 2 pair of bifocals, one where the top works on my desktop but the bottom is too strong to read with (?!) and one where the bottom works with my laptop (much closer) and the top doesn’t work for much except reading the newspaper at the breakfast table. I suggest you measure the distance to your monitor and talk to the doc with that number in hand.
The workaround at the moment is to keep the old pair in the office desk and switch to them while using the desktop box.
We’ll see how this goes over the next couple of days.