Getting older is not *just* a state of mind

About 6 years ago I had laser surgery on my eyes to correct my vision. Prior to the surgery I couldn’t see my own hands clearly, and I definitely needed my glasses to find my glasses.

Post surgery I had perfect vision in my right eye, and only a slight astigmatism in my left eye (as opposed to being dreadfully short-sighted in both and having a severely astigmatic left eye).

Whoo Hoo!

<insert time passing music>

Last week I started to get all to familiar headaches when sitting at the computer for any length of time… So I went to the optometrist

She checks my eyes and confirms what I’d started to suspect, my left eye isn’t focussing properly – it’s very slightly long-sighted, and it’s having more trouble with the residual astigmatism. It’s not bad enough to really *need* glasses, provided I can minimise the amount of time I spend staring at computer screens.

I write for a living, I explained, minimising the time I spend in front of a computer isn’t really conducive to earning a living.

So, now, I have reading glasses, just like nearly all old people have to get.

<sigh>

On the bright side – I do only need them for computer work, and having to get them eventually was always on the plan. And if I hadn’t had the surgery I’d have had to get bifocals (which are even worse!)

So I’m still of the opinion that the laser surgery was the amongst(1) the best things I’ve ever done.

And my glasses do have quite funky blue frames.

1) other things include getting married and the red run at Niseko