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Glasses

 I have now officially become a person who has reading glasses in every room. Having worn glasses for most all my life  -- with a complicated and very expensive prescription to boot -- it was an adjustment getting used to not being able to see to drive but not being able to read.

I do have a prescription for distance correction in my left eye with progressive lenses for reading. With the medicare benefit (one time after cataract surgery) they only cost me $480. But I really like being able to use cheap readers. 

Don is accusing me of trying to be like Gayle King with a pair of glasses to match her every outfit. Since most of my clothes are blue and white, it's hardly the same but he does like to tease.


But then my niece and nephews were teasing me about my mask matching my outfit at their dad's outdoor funeral service.  Maybe I am just easy to tease.



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  1. gigi-hawaiiNovember 25, 2020 at 10:26 AM

    I hope your cataract surgery turned out well. Keep smiling during these difficult times. Happy Thanksgiving, Olga.

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  2. Arkansas PattiNovember 25, 2020 at 2:31 PM

    Easy to tease or subtly fashion conscious.
    I have 4 dollar store glasses around the house also. Those prescription ones are brutally expensive and the dollar ones do the job assigned.

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  3. Granny AnnieNovember 25, 2020 at 5:10 PM

    I too have reading glasses in every room plus I try to have some to match ever outfit.

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  4. Linda ReederNovember 25, 2020 at 7:36 PM

    Well, I guess I am missing out with my one pair of neutral, all purpose glasses. I did notice that I am having more trouble reading fine print, so maybe it will soon be time for a change.

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  5. susie @ persimmon moon cottageNovember 25, 2020 at 7:53 PM

    I have cataract surgery coming up in one eye next week. I want to be able to see distance enough to be able to drive with glasses, but I want to be able to just lift my glasses up onto my head to read like I do with my good eye. I don't know what the final results will be in the eye they are doing the cataract removal. I think things will be brighter because it is a dark brown fairly large cataract. It has to be removed so that macular hole repair surgery can be done as soon as the cataract eye heals up. Why can things never be simple? I am not very worried about the cataract surgery, but the macular hole repair surgery has me pretty nervous.

    It sounds like your cataract surgery went well. You make me feel or calm about it. Thank you.

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  6. TomNovember 26, 2020 at 10:38 AM

    Glasses in every room ... that's an interesting way to solve the where-are-my-glasses problem. But looking for reading glasses -- that's how I get a lot of exercise!

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  7. KayDecember 1, 2020 at 8:51 PM

    Oh gosh, Olga. I have you beat. I have reading glasses on my writing desk, my computer desk and nightstand. And that's all in one room

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