I'm not allowed to fall asleep with my glasses on.
I'm not allowed to fall asleep with my glasses on.

I have to keep this in mind. I woke up after a nap in the recliner the other day with my specs still on. I took them off right then and didn't notice until later that something was wrong. These glasses, which have graduated lenses -- or whatever they call bifocals now -- had become unusable. The frames must have gotten bent oh-so-slightly, and it was enough to make the lenses not match up with my line of sight through them, so I was getting almost a double image.

So my old glasses, which have only distance-vision lenses, had to serve for now, but it was so annoying, because anything close, like my hands, was all blurry so I had to take them off a lot.

Today I took the warped pair to the very expensive store where I used to get all my glasses, and the man there took what seemed like half an hour reshaping the frame back to true. It's such a subtle thing that I didn't think he'd be able to get it fixed again. He had me try them on again and again, after each slight manipulation. He finally got it. It's great to see again.

I ordered another pair of lenses made but I will have them put into an old pair of glasses. I can't afford new frames, especially not from this place, and these days my lenses cost so much more, what with the combined near and far distance, plus my astigmatism. The wonderful thing is how well they take care of any glasses they sold you. And they do have beautiful frames. I stick now to just one style, I guess you'd call them John Lennon glasses.

So great to see clearly!