jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jun 8, 2013 12:06:37 GMT -5
Wow,i tried some 1.00 reading glasses.They really improved my vision from a standing position while walking.I use 1.50 for reading.Higher for close work. Check out these new ones Brad and Scott;you guys love my glasses-pervs:>  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2013 14:03:43 GMT -5
OOOOOOHHHHH I like the rainbow one with the red, blue and yellow. I use the same type of glasses but the best ones for me are the small ones that I can look over the top of when I am driving so I can see the speedometer and far away. They really help my rock hounding too.
Jim
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 8, 2013 14:23:09 GMT -5
They say I'm blind as a bat at home,but when I'm rockhounding and fossil hunting,its eyes like a hawk..I have been told I tune the world out and find rocks..LOL
Black for me...Just as Henry Ford said "You can paint the cars any color you want,as long as its black"! LOL
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Post by jamesp on Jun 8, 2013 18:57:51 GMT -5
When welding,reading glasses drive me crazy Jim.You can buy magnifier sheild covers.But then you got to put glasses back on to grind.
The colored glasses have been a source of harrasment Fossilman.I was minding my business and being perfect angel as usual when Shotgunman and Bhiat jumped me-about my colored glasses.
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Post by helens on Jun 8, 2013 19:30:18 GMT -5
Those aren't yours, those are your wife's!!! LOL!
I was terribly nearsighted for years... and it never got better, so I never had a problem reading or close vision, I just couldn't see anything far away. Well I never remember to wear glasses, even when I couldn't see anything, so I got lasik in ONE eye to correct my vision for long distance.
That means I now have monovision... I cannot triangulate focus, which affects depth of field, and each eye has it's own different range... but between them, I can see everything (with only 1 eye at a time), and I never need to wear glasses for anything ever:).
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Post by jamesp on Jun 8, 2013 20:44:52 GMT -5
I bought those yesterday.I picked em.They are gayly colored HA.
Sorry about your narrow mindedness I mean nearsightedness.My Dad and i had 20-10 vision in prime.His was the
the strongest vision of Navy pilots tested.
Does that monovision give you a headache?
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Post by helens on Jun 8, 2013 20:48:11 GMT -5
Once in a very blue moon if I'm tired. My brain will try to force my near-sighted eye to triangulate with my far-sighted eye... and then I can feel the muscles in my eye trying to do something it cannot do. Like the kind of strain if you tried to pick up a car, but you can't. It's a very strange feeling.
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Post by paulshiroma on Jun 8, 2013 21:28:58 GMT -5
Once in a very blue moon if I'm tired. My brain will try to force my near-sighted eye to triangulate with my far-sighted eye... and then I can feel the muscles in my eye trying to do something it cannot do. Like the kind of strain if you tried to pick up a car, but you can't. It's a very strange feeling. So ... you can pick up a car with your ... eyes ? Helen, I'm impressed. The Force is strong with this one ... James - I picked up some 3x reading glasses for up close work. I realized I was having some difficulties seeing detail work and these seemed to help. |
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Post by helens on Jun 8, 2013 21:51:30 GMT -5
Er no Paul. It's a comparable sensation. Attempting to do something your body can't do, except it's your eye muscle. I used that analogy because most people have never felt one eye trying to focus with another eye that it cannot possibly focus with, so you could not relate.
Most people can relate to the sensation of trying to pick up an object they cannot pick up.
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Post by paulshiroma on Jun 8, 2013 21:59:11 GMT -5
Actually, I can. My contact lenses are setup so that my left eye is corrected for up-close detail vision. The right is corrected for distance. Works great for most of the day until about dinner time. Then nothing's in focus as my eyes are plumb worn out. Hence the 3x reading glasses. My eyes haven't been 20/20 since second grade.
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Post by helens on Jun 8, 2013 22:10:14 GMT -5
Actually, I can. My contact lenses are setup so that my left eye is corrected for up-close detail vision. The right is corrected for distance. Works great for most of the day until about dinner time. Then nothing's in focus as my eyes are plumb worn out. Hence the 3x reading glasses. My eyes haven't been 20/20 since second grade. Then you have EXACTLY what I have:). Do you know that you are the FIRST person I've spoken to that got monovision:)? Why not pick one eye, get Lasik, and throw out the contacts?? You can read without the glasses if you're not tired right? For me, that monovision is permanent... so I'm just used to it. Only on VERY rare occasions does it do that funny thing, and ONLY with 1 eye... the uncorrected one, and that's my near-sighted reading eye. It's super super rare that both try to adjust to each other at once... it's happened tho, like maybe once every 2 years. |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 8, 2013 22:19:45 GMT -5
Vision is a fine thing.Can not imagine doing w/out.I think a lot of people get lasic and end up with monovision.
The 3.00 glasses allow you to move your eyes close to your subject.The 1.00 glasses allow focus at 4-6 feet away.
(for typical close up degeneration)
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Post by paulshiroma on Jun 8, 2013 22:23:13 GMT -5
My nephew works for Abbott Labs as a project manager in their laser division. One of the projects that he oversees is their advanced lasers for Lasik. He's really near-sighted as well and I asked him if he'd ever consider having a Lasik procedure done for his eyes. His answer: An immediate NO. The safety wasn't the question. The issue for him was permanency. The eye will consider the "cut" left by the laser as scar tissue and will eventually re-correct around it, forcing you to have the procedure done again or get corrective lenses eventually in the future. In his estimation, it's not a good ROI. For me, my vision is still changing even though I'm approaching the big 5-0, so no Lasik here. The change isn't huge but it is enough that I have to get new contacts ever year or so. Eventually, I'm going to have to have both lenses corrected for distance and just get regular reading glasses. My older sister did that.
I can read without contact lenses now as long as I keep the book within six to eight inches of my face LOL.
When I'm out working on the rocks, I have one of those swing arm circular fluorescent lights with a six inch magnifying glass in the middle. That helps too.
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Post by helens on Jun 8, 2013 22:37:04 GMT -5
Well... I'm trying to remember when I got the lasik... um... I think it was 2006. So I've had it for 7 years now if that's right. My vision didn't change, and my eyes work fine. So ROI is already covered, just on the cost of contact savings, plus saline, plus cleaners, etc. Here out it's free, and there's no change in vision. I seriously doubt I'd have to redo it within 5 years or more... I can't tell any deterioration yet.
At the time I got the surgery, the doctor said that the machine was practically designed for my eye, and it would be flawless. It was, no problems here. I have heard that some people have trouble with it... but I was lucky.
Now if I have to get reading glasses in my 60s... just think how much $$ I saved on glasses or contacts (because I'd lose a pair a day probably:P).
Now here's a deterrent... when he did it... I smelled my eye COOKING. I torch with a 2000 degree flame, so you know I have cooked my hands before... and the smell is VERY familiar and gross. Absolutely nothing smells quite like burning human skin/flesh. But when it's your EYEBALL... ugh. argh.
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Post by gingerkid on Jun 9, 2013 11:54:34 GMT -5
Love your birth control glasses, James.  Just kiddin' with you!! I'm amazed that you haven't had cataract surgery since you weld. Hi, Helen! They use a torch for the lasik surgery? Wish I had lasik surgery instead of cataract surgery. Had the YAG laser surgery in my right eye after cataract surgery and need to have it in my left eye. The laser surgery didn't hurt until about 10 minutes afterwards. |
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Post by helens on Jun 9, 2013 12:35:20 GMT -5
No, it's laser, and they BURN fine fine surgical lines through your eye, and the healing shrinks the cornea into the right configuration. And you can SMELL IT. It's one thing to smell cooked finger, it's another to smell your own cooking eyeball. The smell is only a second's waft... but OMG. Others may not even notice... I'm just particularly sensitive to my parts cooking because of the torching. What I got was called Wavefront Lasik, which is a more custom lasik procedure. I think there's a few different types of lasik surgery. After 7 years, I still have never seen 'halo' effects.
I didn't feel any pain... except during. Before they cut, they drop the machine ON your eyeball and SQUASH it so you can't move your eye and screw up the cut. That pressure feels like they're trying to pop your eye out of the socket, and even tho it's only for about 20 seconds, that's the longest 20 seconds of your life. It's not pain, it's excruciating pressure. And what went through my mind was... what happens if my eyeball actually pops like a squished bug? Then you smell it, and OMFG. But then, it's over, and you are fine, and for me, it was only red for about a day. Right out of surgery, I was able to see individual leaves on trees for the first time since I was maybe 10 years old with only my eyes. Would I do it again? Yes.
Cataract surgery is a bit different... my mom got that done too. They actually remove the cloudy lens. With lasik, they aren't taking it out, just reshaping it. I don't THINK they squash your eyeball to hold it steady for cateracts. And there's probably more likelihood of pain afterwards, because they are taking something out, not just cutting. My understanding based on the doctor's reaction was that I had an unusually easy surgical experience. He was all over patting himself on the back after mine was done. And the only difference I noticed afterwards from before it was done was that I could see, it didn't hurt, and my eye was red for a day or so.
I spent a couple of months researching the procedure and every doctor who did it before I made the decision to do it. Geez, it's your EYEBALL, so not like getting a haircut:). I was paranoid about my mom's cataract surgery too, the doctor and his qualifications are a HUGE HUGE HUGE part of feeling comfortable doing something as squeamish as this.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 9, 2013 15:24:19 GMT -5
Where have you been gingerbrattkid?
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Just kiddin' with you!! I'm amazed that you haven't had cataract surgery since you weld. 
