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I FINALLY DID IT!!
Mom’s been telling me for years…
“Go get your eyes checked! We have Glaucoma in the family, you know? Plus those reading glasses aren’t good for your eyes!”
So on Sunday – yes on Sunday, I was surprised I could get an appointment on Sunday too – I showed up for my eye appointment with Dr. Tamas at Eye on 17th.
I learned that my left eye is better than my right eye. That I’m still OK for distance seeing – my super-seeing left eye compensates for my just-legal-for-driving right eye.
I would just need reading glasses.
Sure I could get progressives but they take a while to get used to and like I said, I’m still OK for distance.
Also, I learned that I do not have any eye diseases, including Glaucoma and that the back of my eye is fairly healthy, whatever that means…
Anyway, all day at work today, I was thinking about how I would be picking up my new glasses after work. I was thinking how great it will be to read a few pages, and actually see the words clearly, of a good book tonight before I go to sleep.
So after work, I picked up my glasses. The nice man at Eye on 17th adjusted my new glasses to my head and had me read a piece of paper. But I wanted to get my glasses home and try them out there!
I was super excited and my thoughts drifted to that book on the night table beside my bed.
Oh boy, oh boy!
First things, first though. I still had to have dinner, do the dishes, watch some TV. And hey I should check out what I look like in these new glasses. So I looked in the mirror.
Some things just aren’t worth seeing better, I guess…
utesmile said:
You look fab with those new glasses, even ten years younger… 🙂 Isn’t it great to see again and to see things which stayed hidden before. Enjoy your glasses and visibly life! 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
You are too kind and I love you for it Ute! ❤
Diana xo
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utesmile said:
and truthful… I find glasses make character….
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Minuscule Moments said:
Diana I think you look gorgeous. When I got mine I read so much more at night time again because I had been finding that a challenge. Welcome to the four eyes club.
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dianasschwenk said:
me too I can read at night Kath, it’s amazing! ❤
Diana xo
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elizabeth2560 said:
Ha ha. I LOVED this post. When I got new glasses, I could see the dirt on the floor. How embarrassing!
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dianasschwenk said:
Oh well. Stuff happens, right Elizabeth? We’re all human. Gotta love the long chin hairs I can now see haha ❤
Diana xo
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kerbey said:
You look good in them. I have never had a prescription but like you, I have one good eye (but not great) and one that can’t read at all. I am super nervous to go get a Rx and have to start wearing them. As it is, I buy readers and smash out the right lens. What an awful thing not to be able to read pill bottles or anything that used to be so easy!
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dianasschwenk said:
Oh Kerbey I put it off too long, although I never thought of punching on lens out, or buy two of the exact pair, one for each eye, and replace the punched out one! Seriously though, get Rx pair, I’m reading things that I thought were blurry lines. A whole new world has opened up to me again! ❤
Diana xo
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f-stop mama said:
I love your new glasses. They look great on you! I have been wearing glasses & contacts since 7th grade. It feels like they have always been there.
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dianasschwenk said:
Thanks so much – bet you look great in your glasses too – love the shades in your avatar! ❤
Diana xo
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Val Boyko said:
I love this fun post Diana! Its important to keep a sense of humor as we get older…. and to remember that we can take the glasses off and turn down the light at any time 😉
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dianasschwenk said:
Yes Val! Especially that last point! 🙂
Diana xo
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Jean said:
Enjoy them and don’t forget them. It’s a horrible habit of mine…. 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
Me too Jean. At least when I had my pharmacy reading glasses I could buy multiple pairs to have one in my purse, one at work, one by my computer at home, one in the living room. I can’t afford that many prescription ones! ❤
Diana xo
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Sheryl said:
LOL–What a fun post! Seriously, I really like your glasses. 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
Thanks so much Sheryl! ❤
Diana xo
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Patty B said:
Looking good!
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dianasschwenk said:
Thank you Patty! ❤
Diana xo
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Wyrd Smythe said:
You know what they say: “Guys will make passes at lasses with glasses!” XD
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dianasschwenk said:
I let you know if that happens Smitty! ❤
Diana xo
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Alan A. Malizia: Contagious Optimism! Co-Author said:
Diana,
JEEPERS, CREEPERS, WHERE’D YOU GET THOSE PEEPERS!
You may not think those frames do much for you. But, you do much for those frames. They really do look good on you. Give them time. They’ll grow on you.
A small tradeoff in opening a whole new clearer world for you. As the song says: “I can see clearly now…”
-Alan
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dianasschwenk said:
Thanks Alan, it’s my own image through those glasses that make me look older, or should I say, as I am and did not previously know. 🙂
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Jennifer's Journal said:
Ha ha, Diana you made me laugh! You are beautiful, with glasses or without. And lucky too that you don’t need progressives like me. Thanks for this great post. ❤
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dianasschwenk said:
Aww you’re a sweetheart Jennifer – thank you! ❤
Diana xo
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vanbytheriver said:
I use reading glasses and usually take them off before getting near a mirror. Except when I run into the bathroom in the a.m. And I readjust my moisturizer regimen. ☺☺ We all get it. But…you look great in those glasses. Carry on !!! ❤️
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dianasschwenk said:
Ahh thanks for helping me to not feel so alone in this Van. ❤
Diana xo
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vanbytheriver said:
I remember laughing out loud when I once spotted an inch long hair under my chin that no one in the family noticed !! It happens. ☺☺
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dianasschwenk said:
Did they really not notice? Or were they just not telling you…? 😉
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vanbytheriver said:
I’ll never be sure. And that’s ok. ❤️
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Don said:
You really look good Diana. It’s amazing how you suddenly begin to see things you haven’t seen for a long long time. 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
Amazing is one word, yes. Thanks for your kind words Don. ❤
Diana xo
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Chatter Master said:
Love the glasses! And the aging process we tend to get WITH our glasses on! Nice thing about that Diana, we can take them back off again! 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
Yes, there’s that Colleen! Still, I have a new sense of what people with good vision see. I can’t smack non-existent glasses off their faces! ❤
Diana xo
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Chatter Master said:
Hahahahahaha! I can imagine you going around smacking glasses off of people’s faces !!!! And yeah, the non existent ones, you may have to smack in back of the head to see if contacts might pop out! 🙂
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dianasschwenk said:
Haha to see if contacts might pop out! I hadn’t thought of that Colleen – good one! 😉
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Chatter Master said:
😀
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Healing Grief said:
They look great Diana and don’t make you look older at all! I can’t believe you have survived without them. The next step is losing them all the time ha. The girls keep saying, put them around your neck Mum!
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dianasschwenk said:
Ha – Looking through them into the mirror makes me look older Karen! Just as I noticed there were more words on the postmark, I noticed there are more lines on my face. ❤
Diana xo
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Healing Grief said:
Yes that is very true, I liked my lines way better before I saw them with glasses! Ughhh
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dianasschwenk said:
yup! 😉
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Ian Munro @ leadingessentially.com said:
Laughed reading this. The joys of aging! BTW reading glasses @ Coatco = $20 for 3. Sprinkle them everywhere!
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dianasschwenk said:
Ian I finally got prescription glasses and I can seriously read the small print now! A little more than $20, so I won’t be sprinkling any around! ❤
Diana xo
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russtowne said:
You have a lovely smile. Congratulations on all the good news about your eyes!
Russ
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dianasschwenk said:
Sweet of you to say Russ and thank you! ❤
Diana xo
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Wendy L. Macdonald said:
Diana, you’re funny and beautiful.
Blessings & hugs as you enjoy your books ~ Wendy
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dianasschwenk said:
(smiling) Thanks Wendy! ❤
Diana xo
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George said:
Funny how that works..:)
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dianasschwenk said:
Funny, haha? Or funny in a ‘it sucks to be you’ kinda way George? ❤
Diana xo
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George said:
Funny as in the way things happen to work out sometimes..:)
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dianasschwenk said:
Yes. 🙂
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cyclingrandma said:
Welcome to the club! I have progressives… work very well. Enjoy. You look great.
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dianasschwenk said:
haha thanks Lisa!
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