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Post by ellie on Jun 28, 2018 15:58:28 GMT
I have, from birth, had odd eyesight. I’m short sighted in only one eye. I don’t need to wear glasses because I see perfectly with the other eye and my Optician tells me I will never need reading glasses because the shortsighted eye will still see close up when the normal sighted one starts to have trouble due to ageing. Apparently there is some medical term for my kind of eyesight but I forget what it is.
I used to joke about getting a monocle. 😀
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 28, 2018 16:13:37 GMT
Amblyopia? I have that! But I'm short-sighted in both eyes. It's just that one is very affected and the other not so much! It could be corrected if it's detected when you are a small kid. My niece wore patches for a time! But I discovered the problem when I was a teeneger so it was very late for me!
I don't need reading glasses, tho.!
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Post by mllemass on Jun 28, 2018 16:14:39 GMT
Ha!
I think my eye doctor told me that having one stronger eye is common, and the strong eye will help the weaker eye to see.
When I first mentioned to my parents that I'd be getting glasses, they took the news as though I'd announced that I had a deadly disease. My mother was in tears, and my father totally blamed her, saying that it must have come from her side of the family because no one on his side ever wore glasses. My mother was devastated, telling me that she had no idea that she had done this to me.
My parents are crazy people!
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Post by ellie on Jun 28, 2018 17:03:58 GMT
Yes. I didn’t notice until one day when I was about 15 lI happened to rub my good eye in class and noticed I couldn’t read the chalk board. Investigations ensued with the outcome being that I’d always been that way. My father then mentioned that he had the same thing!
He had never thought about it being hereditary.
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Post by roverpup on Jun 28, 2018 17:29:35 GMT
Almost everyone I know wears corrective lenses.
My glasses seem so much a part of me by now that when I don't have them on my face I feel that I am missing part of my body. I tend to touch the bridge of my nose instinctively even if I am not wearing my glasses.
One time, when I was wearing contacts, I fell asleep with them on and when I woke up and looked around in my darkened room it was disorienting and a bit frightening because all my life I have only known blurred outlines of things when I look around in bed. Seeing things clearly isn't in my wheelhouse.
I have severe shortsightedness especially in one eye, plus astigmatism in both, and now the beginning of cataracts as well. Plus there is the beginning signs of macular degeneration - so future prognosis isn't really that good. But hopefully loss of sight will be a ways off yet. 🤓
I'll never forget when I first got my glasses - I had needed glasses long before I finally got them and I was so astonished that the world was so clear! I just thought it was naturally blurry up until then!
:-))
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Post by ellie on Jun 28, 2018 17:56:09 GMT
A friend of my Mum’s had cataracts on both eyes back when they needed to wait till they were fairly far advanced before they could be removed. I remember her saying the first thing that shocked her post op was seeing the amount of dust she’d missed when cleaning her house pre op. 😀
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Post by mllemass on Jun 28, 2018 18:09:11 GMT
The day I first picked up my glasses, I got into my car and drove to Toronto for a conference. I didn't notice much difference in reading road signs because they always get easier to read the closer you get to them, even without glasses. But I had the biggest shock looking at the things that were close to me - suddenly, my steering wheel was gigantic and my hands were huge! I always knew I had big hands, but this was ridiculous! So during that hour-long drive, all I could think about was how everyone with good eyesight would have noticed my freakishly large hands, and were probably whispering about me behind my back.
Of course, I forgot all about my hands when I checked into my hotel room and got my first close-up look at my face in the mirror! Ahhhhhhhhh!
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