@ossobuco,
Ok. Gotta pay for the new glasses post surgery this time.
Meantime, I see damned well with my last glasses, but apparently not the best I possibly could, given that the prescription differs (less strong for distance). I bought an eye chart online about a year ago, and righty zones in w/glasses at the 20.20 letters but not the next line; lefty varies re vision and glare with the hot compresses; today it's between 20/30 and 20/25, lefty being poorish at 20/200, with glasses, not that long ago - November. (In my case, complicated, but dry eye syndrome having something to do with variation.)
So I can live without new glasses, but this pair is worn out, the frames being from 2004 and on the flimsy side, never mind ugly. I go today to a place the clinic gave me a card from, senior discount, wholesale frames, and so on.
But damn, I haven't driven in Friday afternoon traffic in a long time. I am mildly scaredy cat but getting better. I've always been careful, given the lifetime somewhat compromised peripheral vision (no tickets for 40 years), but scaredy has been recent. Even just before the recent surgery, the right eye with glasses had only diminished to 20:40, but it mattered to my sense of place. So now I'm residual scaredy, and don't know the neighborhood of the central city glasses place.
Right now my vision with glasses is to me spectacular, but I still have some low level tuned in fear. Me, who a few years ago whipped through the LA interchange at the same high speed as everyone else and got all the off ramps niftily. I remember that my anxiety on that was picking the right lane, a totally reasonable anxiety.
I couldn't find the eyeglass place street, one of those that goes through the city but stops for whole neighborhoods at a time. I had memo'd where I thought it was and must have missed the turn - in what was essentially an infinite shopping strip.. I punted, not today, and decided to go back to my area west of the Rio Grande.
Easy enough. I didn't want to push it.
Went to the eyeglasses place there.
Oy. I smelled a doctor emporium. I bet they even say "doctor will see you now". I walked the room slowly, looked at all displays. Possibly three pair of a few hundred could handle a trifocal.
So, I decide to look online. But I need the measurement between my pupil centers. I could probably hold a mm ruler up and may try that. It's not in my recent chart, natch: it's an eyeglass matter, not a complex vision physiology/surgery matter. And I don't trust any numbers from places I used to go to, given the displacement stuff that might have happened with the left eye. The number is probably the same, but, um.
Gads, I'll have to check the discount place out one more time.
Never on a Friday.
