I can see clearly now

[cyrano]

Ironically, the thing people have said made them most happy about contacts may be the dealbreaker for me.

Print is blurry and doubled, and I can't just peek under the lens to see it clearly. This could be problematic, as I cannot easily just slip off my contact lenses, read whatever it is, and then pop them back on. At least, not at this level--maybe once I put more eeps into my 'eyeball touching' skill.

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[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

A single contact lens like "right eye is 20:16, left eye is 20:200". With the single lens, my eyes have - for 30 years - been corrected to work the same as one another, with nominal focus from a decimeter to a hundred million light years.

But now in my mid-40s, I'm slowly losing close-up vision in both eyes. I can still pop out the left lens and read close with my uncorrected left eye, should I choose to, but reading glasses are much nicer, and lack the side effect -- if I let my eyes stay dimorphic, I can function with only a slight depth-perception problem, because between them they cover everything. But over time my eyes would start doing the lizard thing and wandering independently, as was happening in my mid-teens till I got the lens.

I'm still at the point of needing/preferring reading glasses only occasionally, generally when fatigued, but I expect I'll use them more and more as time goes on. I keep one pair in my laptop bag, another by the bed, and a third by the den computer, and pull them out when my eyes feel tired.

(I've promised myself cyberpunk Borg headgear with attached monocle that can swivel into place, if I ever go completely bald.)