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[conuly]

(and we've dug ourselves out of this hole) I'm putting as much as I can every paycheck towards eye surgery. I don't even want eye surgery, it sounds scarier than dental work, but at 43 I think I have to accept reality: I am never going to learn to reliably put my glasses somewhere they won't break and I won't lose them.

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Comments

[gatheringrivers]

I am never going to learn to reliably put my glasses somewhere they won't break and I won't lose them.

I don't know if this would help, but I'm always getting a glasses case, and doing my best to keep them in the same place each time. A nightstand, a spot on the laptop, etc.

Would that help? The "same spot" doesn't have to be right next to the bed, as long as it's someplace stable.

[conuly]

It helps for about five days, then it abruptly ceases to help at all.

[adafrog]

It's scary, but it's worth it.

[malada]

Eye surgery was a little scary the first time but totally worth it.

Cataracts and corneras here. Wow.

[minoanmiss]

*eye surgery handhold*

[conuly]

It's gonna be ages and ages. Maybe I'll figure out glasses storage before then!

[minoanmiss]

I will hope with you. :)

Mine won't be so easy to avoid, alas.

[magid]

If you don't wear glasses full-time, lots easier to lose track of them :-(. Is it feasible to get a couple of pairs and put them in the places you look first? Or is there some way of putting a digital tag on them so you can find them online?

(Please ignore if you aren't looking for suggestions.)

[conuly]

Look, the problem is that I do wear them all the time except when I'm reading in bed, in which case I usually put them next to me on the bed and then if I'm sleepy I don't always have the executive function to put them someplace safe so then they fall out of the bed, tangled in my blankets, and I step on them.

There's no number of replacement pairs that can make up for this.

[magid]

Ah. My default is to never put the glasses on the bed, just next to it, whether on the floor near my head, or on whatever solid furniture is next to the bed. (But then, my prescription is enough that reading in bed mostly means keeping them on, unless I'm willing to get a lot closer to the page and basically read one-eyed. Which I do sometimes because my usual reading in bed distance from the page doesn't work well with the progressives, so I have to hold them up to make the type be readable.

I wish i could get the surgery but I've 3 strikes against it

[disgruntledgirl]

1: My eyes keep changing and apparently I have to wait for my eyes to not change for a certain period of time.
2: My grandfather was one of the first people to get cataract surgery - it was still experimental and they learned don't leave the laser on that long. Pity they did it in both eyes.
3: My brother has a detached retina that needs repeated treatment so I worry that might cause problems with my getting the surgery.

But I DO want it. Despite how all prior surgeries have left me worse every time. One eye is near sighted and the other is astigmatism.