Not that it was ever very secret.
Back at the beginning of the year, my work switched health care providers. Group Health was fine, as far as I could tell, but they switched to Cigna. One of my friends is an optometrist, and while he wouldn't take GH (too much paperwork with them, he said), Cigna was fine. So in February, I went up to Snohomish and got some glasses.
Yep. I'm four-eyed, now.
The first set had to be sent back; the prescription on the left eye, it turns out, was slightly off, and it gave me instant eye strain when I put them on. It felt like my eyes were crossing. The second set, which I got at the start of March, works fine.
I found it interesting that my eyes apparently hadn't changed much from when I was a kid. My last optometrist appointment was when I was a teenager, if not earlier, and my new set have a not very different prescription. As for how severe that is... well, look at it this way: I did pretty darn well without them for all my life. So, not very severe. They definitely help — text is just a little larger, just a little clearer, than without them. But i can do without them just fine.
Which is actually a little bit of a problem. It's been over a month now since my second, corrected set came in, and I'm still having trouble remembering to wear the damn things. And even when I do, it sometimes feels really really weird, having this thin perched on my nose. I take them off to rub my eyes, and forget to put them on again for a couple of hours.
In time, I'm sure I'll get used to them. This transitional period, though, is proving irritating.
Back at the beginning of the year, my work switched health care providers. Group Health was fine, as far as I could tell, but they switched to Cigna. One of my friends is an optometrist, and while he wouldn't take GH (too much paperwork with them, he said), Cigna was fine. So in February, I went up to Snohomish and got some glasses.
Yep. I'm four-eyed, now.
The first set had to be sent back; the prescription on the left eye, it turns out, was slightly off, and it gave me instant eye strain when I put them on. It felt like my eyes were crossing. The second set, which I got at the start of March, works fine.
I found it interesting that my eyes apparently hadn't changed much from when I was a kid. My last optometrist appointment was when I was a teenager, if not earlier, and my new set have a not very different prescription. As for how severe that is... well, look at it this way: I did pretty darn well without them for all my life. So, not very severe. They definitely help — text is just a little larger, just a little clearer, than without them. But i can do without them just fine.
Which is actually a little bit of a problem. It's been over a month now since my second, corrected set came in, and I'm still having trouble remembering to wear the damn things. And even when I do, it sometimes feels really really weird, having this thin perched on my nose. I take them off to rub my eyes, and forget to put them on again for a couple of hours.
In time, I'm sure I'll get used to them. This transitional period, though, is proving irritating.