Cataract Problems

Following cataract surgery, I still have vision issues. Just different ones. I can see pretty well with no glasses. Enough to get around. As long as I’m not reading anything. But I have a MUCH decreased eyeglasses prescription to crisp things up a bit. I do prefer to use them for driving. Those are my “real glasses”. And then I have a ridiculous amount of readers from 1.25 to 5. (And oddly you can’t order 5 on Amazon. It always says “can’t be shipped to your area. 🙄 However the crafting store WILL send them to me. So take that, Amazon.)

When I cross stitch, I use a 4. Which is still an improvement because I use to use a 4 PLUS very strong contacts. Laying in bed at night to read, I need a different strength. And to use the computer…well that’s a whole other issue, which I’ve yet to figure out. First of all, I rarely use my computer. I do most everything on my phone, including this blog. But I’m working on a project that has to be done on the computer and figure it was as good of a time as any, while hanging out at the hospital, to do it. Problem is, the strength set on my trifocals doesn’t really work for me (the top is one strength for distance….the bottom is a different strength for close up vision. And the middle is the computer and it’s just an average of the two.) To see out of my glasses I have to hold my head up high and look down through the glasses and that’s just dumb. AND depending on how tired I am, I think my eye needs change.

All that to say, in packing for my night at the hospital tonight I grabbed several glasses of different strengths. And then probably grabbed a few more. And now, not counting my real glasses, I have EIGHT pairs of readers up here. 😂😂😂

And really, now I’m just too wiped out to even work on the project.

I have no idea why people think that I tend to overpack. 😂