Heston wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:22pmFuck the glasses, what a bookcase!Marky Dread wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:14pmLooking good mate. They suit you.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 1:44pmPhoto on 4-05-21 at 1.37 PM.jpg
Got my first proper pair of glasses today. The cataract surgery cleared that up, but it means one eye is permanently set at near distance and the other at far. Which makes the 3–7 foot range a bit of a challenge. So, proper prescription glasses. Plus lecturing on Zoom made me really self-conscious of my eyebrows, so I'm happy to hide them.
(Pre-emptive fuck you to anyone who wants to point out that I'm not smiling.)
I've been wearing these for about a year or so now. Mainly for tv and reading and working on Clash stuff.
so... what's your favorite picture of yourself?
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Re: so... what's your favorite picture of yourself?
You'd think it was just a sudden awareness, but our bodies are time bombs, so who knows.Heston wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:25pmNo, just totally sudden, unless I hadn't noticed the deteriation.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:24pmThat's fucking weird that it'd be so instantaneous. You didn't have any kind of accident beforehand?Heston wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:21pmMy vision was absolutely perfect until about 7 years ago, then I woke up one morning and thought there was something wrong with my phone as I couldn't focus on the text. I realised I had literally gone long-sighted overnight. I thought it was something that crept up on you but it was totally sudden with me. And this last year or so I'm having trouble stuff focusing on further away, like things on the television that you're obviously meant to see. Not a massive problem yet but I think I will need proper glasses soon, I'm getting by with reading glasses at the moment.
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Re: so... what's your favorite picture of yourself?
Hello,Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:35pmYou'd think it was just a sudden awareness, but our bodies are time bombs, so who knows.Heston wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:25pmNo, just totally sudden, unless I hadn't noticed the deteriation.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:24pmThat's fucking weird that it'd be so instantaneous. You didn't have any kind of accident beforehand?Heston wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:21pmMy vision was absolutely perfect until about 7 years ago, then I woke up one morning and thought there was something wrong with my phone as I couldn't focus on the text. I realised I had literally gone long-sighted overnight. I thought it was something that crept up on you but it was totally sudden with me. And this last year or so I'm having trouble stuff focusing on further away, like things on the television that you're obviously meant to see. Not a massive problem yet but I think I will need proper glasses soon, I'm getting by with reading glasses at the moment.
I had cataract surgery a few years ago - very easy, in and out, wear an eye shield at night for a few days. When they do the cataract surgery, they also do Lasik surgery free. I had worn contacts forever and suddenly didn't need them. I wear cheaters to read but otherwise, it's been great!
When I had my one eye done, I went back in to check on the eye. The nurse asked "How's your other eye?"
"Fine"
"Are you sure it doesn't get cloudy at night when you drive?"
"No"
"Are you sure it doesn't get cloudy?"
"Um, now that you mention it, it does get cloudy"
Bingo! Cataract and Lasik surgery on the other - $135 each eye for 20/20 vision.
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Admittedly, I don't know the ins and outs of vision problems, but I assumed that cataract surgery would take care of other vision issues because it's replacing your messed up lenses with plastic ones. The downside is that you lose the ability to focus at different depths. Lasik fixing your lenses would mean you could focus in and out as normal. So unless your cataract surgery didn't replace your lenses, I'm curious what Lasik would do. (That said, I'm supposed to get some laser touch up on my eyes in the next few months. The nature of my cataracts was such that he couldn't fully clean things out, so a laser will blast out the last little bit.)gkbill wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 4:04pmI had cataract surgery a few years ago - very easy, in and out, wear an eye shield at night for a few days. When they do the cataract surgery, they also do Lasik surgery free. I had worn contacts forever and suddenly didn't need them. I wear cheaters to read but otherwise, it's been great!
When I had my one eye done, I went back in to check on the eye. The nurse asked "How's your other eye?"
"Fine"
"Are you sure it doesn't get cloudy at night when you drive?"
"No"
"Are you sure it doesn't get cloudy?"
"Um, now that you mention it, it does get cloudy"
Bingo! Cataract and Lasik surgery on the other - $135 each eye for 20/20 vision.
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Re: so... what's your favorite picture of yourself?
The doctor who did the Lasik for both my wife & I said it's good for around 10 years and the results start to diminish gradually. Ours offered a pre-paid "tune up" when this happens, but in his opinion it should only one time after the initial, apparently the layers of your cornea are thin and can only be cut or burned on by the laser a couple of times.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:11pmHa! I'm the softest of touches (well, I'm a firm grader, but I'm the easiest guy to get an extension from).
It can wear off? My wife had it done, well, yeah, about eight years ago. Her vision is still good, tho (knock wood, I guess). My understanding is that my plastic lenses are good for life.I can relate to the vision thing, I had Lasik about 10 years ago, one eye for reading, other for distance. It was good for about 8+ years, but now it's wearing off and I'm back to wearing either bifocals (hate 'em) or readers in order to print.
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Yikes. I'll have to find out whether my wife knows this.Sparky wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 4:20pmThe doctor who did the Lasik for both my wife & I said it's good for around 10 years and the results start to diminish gradually. Ours offered a pre-paid "tune up" when this happens, but in his opinion it should only one time after the initial, apparently the layers of your cornea are thin and can only be cut or burned on by the laser a couple of times.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:11pmHa! I'm the softest of touches (well, I'm a firm grader, but I'm the easiest guy to get an extension from).
It can wear off? My wife had it done, well, yeah, about eight years ago. Her vision is still good, tho (knock wood, I guess). My understanding is that my plastic lenses are good for life.I can relate to the vision thing, I had Lasik about 10 years ago, one eye for reading, other for distance. It was good for about 8+ years, but now it's wearing off and I'm back to wearing either bifocals (hate 'em) or readers in order to print.
edit: She informs me that she had a different, supposedly better type of laser surgery, whose effects are much more long-lasting. I dunno. It's all black magic to me.
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Neil, Mark, you're looking well, guys.
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Cheers mate.
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No fuchsias for you.
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Re: so... what's your favorite picture of yourself?
Got a Rake? Sure!
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
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We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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Re: so... what's your favorite picture of yourself?
Hello,Heston wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:22pmFuck the glasses, what a bookcase!Marky Dread wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 3:14pmLooking good mate. They suit you.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 May 2021, 1:44pmPhoto on 4-05-21 at 1.37 PM.jpg
Got my first proper pair of glasses today. The cataract surgery cleared that up, but it means one eye is permanently set at near distance and the other at far. Which makes the 3–7 foot range a bit of a challenge. So, proper prescription glasses. Plus lecturing on Zoom made me really self-conscious of my eyebrows, so I'm happy to hide them.
(Pre-emptive fuck you to anyone who wants to point out that I'm not smiling.)
I've been wearing these for about a year or so now. Mainly for tv and reading and working on Clash stuff.
Seconded!
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Offered up because both Kory and I have brought up this band before. Finally pulled the trigger after finding a design I liked.
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I appreciate the That Thing You Do shirt.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑27 May 2021, 1:45pmPhoto on 27-05-21 at 1.42 PM.jpg
Offered up because both Kory and I have brought up this band before. Finally pulled the trigger after finding a design I liked.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.