I’ve got it. The nasty thing that happens to your eyes when you get older. I struggle to read phone numbers on my iPhone when I dial from my contact list, and I have trouble reading pretty much anything with a smaller font than what is used for toddler books. I hate it.
What makes it worse is I dig sunglasses. My collection is huge and there probably isn’t a pair of Maui Jim’s ever made I don’t own. (I also like shoes but that’s a whole other post.) So my last optometrist put me in mono-vision contacts (using one eye to see up close and the other for distance), and I did ok until I lost the right contact and was too far past my last exam to pick up another. I pulled out the glasses, but seriously — have you ever tried to lay back on the couch and watch TV with bifocals? It’s totally impossible!
Today I’m wearing new contacts, and they are bifocals — a trial. Crazy, but everything is like in 3D. Words appear to rise above backgrounds when reading, and I can’t see shit far away. I was told I would get used to it, but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to get used to not being able to see things far away, or my eyes will simply adjust at some point and miraculously I’ll be better than new. I’m hoping it’s the latter. In the meantime, this is pretty miserable.