My insurance at the new job kicked in on the first so I made an appointment with the optometrist. I had tried this a few years back. At that time, I weighed the minimal improvement over my reading glasses against the over $100 that my (then crappy) insurance didn't cover, and decided to stick with the $10 reading glasses.
But time and age march on and I had been noticing it harder and harder to focus at distance. At the end of my exam, after we had selected the distance correction that seemed right for me, I could read the tiny letters on the wall. The doctor said, "Lets compare that to what you have been seeing," and removed the lenses. Hell, I couldn't even tell for sure that there were letters on the wall. I now eagerly await my new glasses. They even came with those sunglasses that clip on magnetically and my cost for exam and glasses was under $30. Cool!
Posted by apopheniac at January 18, 2005 08:02 AM