The cruelest irony of all...

[icepixie]

...is when a person who wears glasses needs to repair part of his or her set of spectacles.

(I have somehow lost the screw that holds in one of the nosepads on my current pair. I attempted to substitute a screw from my older pair--using only one, squinted eye, because the astigmatism in my left eye makes it basically useless for close work without my glasses--but apparently it's a different size. Now I am using duct tape until I can make it somewhere that sells such items, hopefully tomorrow after work at the journal.)

WOE.

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[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Bwahahhaaha schadenfreude! I am immune to this particular brand of irony because I have PERFECTLY SUPER-SHARP VISION - within five inches of my eyeballs. By twelve inches it's a big ol' World Of Smudge, but at least I can fix my own glasses. Thank you for making me feel better about my blindness. ;)

Why is it that not all glasses screws are the same size? Would that be so difficult, glasses-makers of the world? A little bit of standardization would be lovely, because then we would not have to buy FIVE JILLION REPAIR KITS trying to find the right sort of screw/nosepad. Alas.

[icepixie]

I have PERFECTLY SUPER-SHARP VISION - within five inches of my eyeballs.

Heh. That's pretty much what it's like for my right eye. My left eye has a sweet spot between where the myopia and astigmatism blur things up in their own unique ways. It is exactly an inch beyond the clear range of my right eye.

Binocular vision FAIL.

Thank you for making me feel better about my blindness. ;)

You are very welcome. ;)

A little bit of standardization would be lovely

Yes. Yes, it would. Or at least screws that didn't fall out. That would be good too.

I'm planning to just go to an eyeglasses chain and hit them up for a properly-fitting screw rather than fool around with kits and whatnot. God only knows how many tries that would take.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Binocular vision FAIL.

Wow. Aren't corrective lenses amazing?

I'm planning to just go to an eyeglasses chain and hit them up for a properly-fitting screw rather than fool around with kits and whatnot.

Ummmm yeah. That excellent idea occurred to me *after* I'd spent ages trying to find various whatnots. (Whatsnot?)

[icepixie]

Wow. Aren't corrective lenses amazing?

Indeed they are.

Ummmm yeah. That excellent idea occurred to me *after* I'd spent ages trying to find various whatnots. (Whatsnot?)

Whatsnotseseses?

I went this morning, and even though I'd never been there before, they gave me the screw and screwed the nosepad back in for free! Yay customer service!

[alto2.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I took my contacts out tonight before making sure I knew where my glasses were. Fortunately, I did find them inside the house, in a relatively logical place, but it was none of the first three places I looked, and I thought I was going to have to go out and look around the car half-blind (and before you ask, no, I couldn't just put the lenses back in, because they're in a hydrogen peroxide solution that needs six hours to neutralize so it doesn't burn your eyes). Oops!!

I hope you've got your specs fixed by now!

[icepixie]

One of the many reasons I do not wear contacts, right there. (The big one is that the one time I tried, they fell out of my eyes. No, really. It was horrible. Oh, and my astigmatism is such that I would never be able to see as well with contacts as I can with glasses, which is sad.)

I hope you've got your specs fixed by now!

I do! And I got them fixed for free, even! I will definitely be patronizing that store if I am ever in need of more intensive optometry work while living in this town.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

the one time I tried, they fell out of my eyes.

What? FELL out? It's not possible for soft lenses to fall out. They could maybe wrinkle up a bit, or otherwise feel uncomfortable and maybe come unstuck if they weren't the right size, but otherwise...this is not possible. Gas perm lenses, on the other hand, can definitely pop out, though even then, you don't usually feel it. you just notice that suddenly something went very blurry and oh shit you better find your lens before it finds the bottom of someone's shoe, or worse...

Also, I've got astigmatism, and I do just fine with contacts. Really.

The hydrogen peroxide solution wouldn't have been insurmountable--I just would have had to rinse the heck out of the lenses before putting them anywhere near my eye. Not ideal, but not impossible, either.

[icepixie]

What? FELL out? It's not possible for soft lenses to fall out.

Au contraire. These were soft lenses, and they very definitely fell out onto the table at the eye doctor's about thirty seconds after I finally got the damn things in. (It had taken me an hour to put them in, so perhaps my eyes were too dry by that point for them to adhere.) The assistant who was helping me basically said, "Um. Come back tomorrow and try again." To which I replied, "I think I'll just stick with the glasses."

Also, I've got astigmatism, and I do just fine with contacts. Really.

Well, the doctor said it wouldn't be terribly unclear, just that it wouldn't be as clear as my glasses. I got the impression it might've worked out to only 20/20, as opposed to the 20/15 I enjoy with my glasses.