How fucking blind are you?
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Tell me about it. I started using readers when I was about 45. By the time I turned 50 or thereabouts, my eye doc said I needed correction for my distance vision, too. So he wrote me a scrip and I got bifocals with Progressive and Transition lenses, and they do the trick pretty well. It took a couple weeks to get used to the bifocals and the transitions aren't as good as sunglasses, but I see pretty well now. Except in low light - which pisses me off when I'm fishing. I have to have my shit all dialed in the night before and hope I don't break off before the sun comes up all the way - or it's going to be a huge pain in the ass to tie knots I can't see.YellowSnow said:
I have readers in my fishing vest. Can't tie knots w/o 'em anymore @chuck @dfleaDoog_de_Jour said:
I mean, few of us in this thread are spring chickens anymore, and at some point we all need to get some kind of glasses.YellowSnow said:
This is my concern- i.e., might not be a long term fix for me (wasn't for my brother) and I'm gonna need readers soon anyhow.alumni94 said:
I got LASIK in early 2000s. It lasted for 15-18 years. I wear glass again, mostly for driving. What LASIK doesn’t help and the area that has gone to crap is reading. I wear reading glass more than anything now.YellowSnow said:
I think I'm a LASIK candidate but many folks I know that have done LASIK end up having to go back to corrective lenses down the road.Doog_de_Jour said:Until recently I had pretty decent vision and had a weak prescription, but for whatever reason in the past two years my eyesight has gone downhill, especially at night. Debating about getting the LASIK surgery.
I'm so used to wearing contacts for 30 + years, I don't think about the hassle anymore.
I bet you could pull off readers, Yella.
Another thing about glasses is I have to wear a hat if it's raining at all, which also pisses me off. Most things about getting old piss me off. I bet Race is practically fuming. lol -
That's a good idea. I see pretty well still in good light. Plus I don't fly fish for trout so the lightest line I ever use is 6lb for high lakes. I mostly using high vis braid main line and fluorocarbon leaders no lighter than 10lb. I can see that fine as long as the light is good. I'm not sure if I should carry readers for gloomy days or a headlamp.YellowSnow said:
I have readers in my fishing vest. Can't tie knots w/o 'em anymore @chuck @dfleaDoog_de_Jour said:
I mean, few of us in this thread are spring chickens anymore, and at some point we all need to get some kind of glasses.YellowSnow said:
This is my concern- i.e., might not be a long term fix for me (wasn't for my brother) and I'm gonna need readers soon anyhow.alumni94 said:
I got LASIK in early 2000s. It lasted for 15-18 years. I wear glass again, mostly for driving. What LASIK doesn’t help and the area that has gone to crap is reading. I wear reading glass more than anything now.YellowSnow said:
I think I'm a LASIK candidate but many folks I know that have done LASIK end up having to go back to corrective lenses down the road.Doog_de_Jour said:Until recently I had pretty decent vision and had a weak prescription, but for whatever reason in the past two years my eyesight has gone downhill, especially at night. Debating about getting the LASIK surgery.
I'm so used to wearing contacts for 30 + years, I don't think about the hassle anymore.
I bet you could pull off readers, Yella. -
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Mild Myopia (-.25 to -2.0)
I hear ya. I was once where you are, solidly, until I began having to ask to borrow my wife’s feminine (or faggy) stylishly adorned readers to read the menu…hope your arms are longer than mine…BleachedAnusDawg said:Wife says I will eventually need readers. I would rather be 60 years old and holding a menu three feet from my face to read it than have to tote glasses around with me.
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I'm a freak with hyperopia@PolPotDawg
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Mild Myopia (-.25 to -2.0)
I’m disappointed Pac12 Ref Blind wasn’t an option.YellowSnow said:
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Mild Myopia (-.25 to -2.0)One other thing - I have had my eyes scratched twice - once by metal flakes where I wore an eye patch for a week or so, then as I walked up to no. 2 (wife not a dump) she is talking like an Italian, hands moving everywhere, and as I come up from behind, she flings her hand over her shoulder and got both eyes with her fingernails. I think she did it on purpose. The next morning I could not open either eye, trip to the emergency room, ended up wearing another patch for a week. With all that said, I can't even put eye drops in my eye, I am like a spastic, takes an entire bottle to get two drops in. btw - I can't wear contacts.
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Mild Myopia (-.25 to -2.0)LebamDawg said:
One other thing - I have had my eyes scratched twice - once by metal flakes where I wore an eye patch for a week or so, then as I walked up to no. 2 (wife not a dump) she is talking like an Italian, hands moving everywhere, and I as I come up from behind, she flings her hand over her shoulder and got both eyes with her fingernails. I think she did it on purpose. The next morning I could not open either eye, trip to the emergency room, ended up wearing another patch for a week. With all that said, I can't even put eye drops in my eye, I am like a spastic, takes an entire bottle to get two drops in. btw - I can't wear contacts.
Love it when they bare their claws. Tell the Mrs. to call me. 🤙 ☎️😘 -
I've got Swaye 20/20 Fighter Pilot EyesCan't hear shit, perfect vision. The wife and I are polar opposites.
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Pretty Blind Myopia (-2.25 to - 5.0Which sense are not not willing to lose; sight, hearing, taste, smell?
I love music, so it’s a no go on losing hearing. Taste a close second.
