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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Jul 17, 2018 - 01:42pm PT
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About five years after needing readers I finally went in for a real eye exam. The doctor said how’s your far vision? and I said perfect. He said close your left eye and read the chart, and it went fine and then he said close your right and read the chart and I said oh sh#t. Seems my left eye isn’t perfect for long version anymore, but it’s interesting how the brain needs only one eye to still seem to have perfect distance vision.
So if I get Lasic on one eye to make that the near vision eye Ill obviously do it on the left one.
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Jul 17, 2018 - 03:35pm PT
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I've worn glasses my entire life (nearsighted) but I just hit 60 and still take my glasses off to read.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Jul 17, 2018 - 04:07pm PT
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Early 40s. Too many years staring at a monitor, hacking out stuff. Really hit me one time at Suicide Rock when I couldn't see how well a wired nut was placed before committing to a run out. Went for it anyways out of stubbornness and stupidity and immediately got an eye appointment and switched to readers soon thereafter. Still have eagle eyes for distance, but can't see sh#t up close.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Jul 17, 2018 - 06:49pm PT
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At 60 I'm still fine on the up close stuff, but the distance vision went awry sometime in my 40's. It makes for a funny time climbing: wearing my glasses messes up my close in vision, so I need to take them off if I want to see what my hands and feet are doing. Of course, they need to be around my neck so I can put them on for route finding and protection spotting.
I'd set a goal of not getting glasses until I was 50, but sometime around age 47 I think I borrowed my wife's glasses at a concert while seated in the balcony, and I was startled to find the person on stage wasn't really just a fuzzy blob. The cat eyes didn't really suit me, so I went to get my own pair. After the eye test the Ophthalmologist casually asked me, "So, are you driving?" "Sure!" I declared and she suddenly wheeled on me and intently hissed, "Well YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"
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