First day wearing glasses
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Topic: First day wearing glasses
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Subject: First day wearing glasses
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 11:43am
| My first day wearing glasses. My wife made me go to the I doctor and that led to the glasses. I had a piece of steel in my left eye ( my only good eye) a few years back. It took 7 tries to get it out so the I doc says I have scaring. It bothers me to drive in traffic at night. The glasses don’t help at distance but sure help up close. Bifocals. I hope to get used to them. They a pita so far. She first hung that ring on my finger and now this. I’m nervous about what tase she’ll have me toting around? |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 1:22pm
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Yeah bifocals are a PITA BUT you will get used to them...except when working under dashes or upside down or...well...you'll compromise... I let the 'eyeballs on my fingers' do a lot these days, close my eyes and work, seems to help... Last pair I got at Walmart and they are the FIRST pair where my eyes did NOT have to adjust to the glasses ! All the others, spanning 50 years, I was told by the eye doc, 'you'll get used to them'.... balderdash.... I have to take them off to read computer screen, on for microcomputer work, on to drive(though red means stop, yellow...go faster...) Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 1:40pm
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Thad, being married like being a kid again... Your "MOM" is constantly telling you what to do, how to act, and how to dress.......... get use to it !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 2:38pm
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yeah and the longer you're wed the more she wan't to control everything !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 3:49pm
| 2 words to remember now, YES DEAR!!!! lol |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 3:57pm
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its called caring about you....be grateful! I need trifocals, I found progressives a lot quicker to get used to. But, like Jay says, none of them work well if you are working under something, under dash, under sink, etc ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 4:02pm
| I am waiting for my wife to get through chemo so I can have my cataracts removed then I will only wear glasses for the bifocals, been wearing them over 50 years so there is no since changing now. Wait till you clean them and think all that dirt would have went in my eyes if the glasses hadn't caught it. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 4:27pm
Lou I like to poke a little fun but honestly I'm quite graetful for Jenn. She is my best friend and has been for over 40 years. These are progressive. They seem ok cept when I'm driving and look up in the trees or up on a hill things get blurry. At work I was setting deck posts and I was on scaffolding looking down trying to take measurements and it was very blurry. I find my self pushing them to the end of my nose just like reading glasses, I think in a few days they will feel normal. |
LouSWPA wrote:Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 5:47pm
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Being a construction electrician I did a lot of work looking up working over my head. So I found that using what was called Double D lens, when I went to bifocals. They really help. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 5:51pm
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Thad, I wear occupational bi focal, which is a bi focal in bottom and one of same strength in top, middle is for distance, really helps when working over head or I normally look thru the top when welding as the hood is down tighter on collar bone cuts down on flash. Never tried progressive lens. |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 10:03pm
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After wearing contacts for 35 years, I had to switch back to glasses. Also found out I have a cataract in one eye. Will need surgery within next 3-5 years. Ended up getting prescription safety glasses. Transition lenses with progressive trifocals. Took a couple weeks to get used to them. Literally had to learn how to walk again! Driving has taken a little getting used to also, not having my peripheral vision like with contacts. Sure is nice to be able to see again though. Makes seeing when welding so much easier. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 10:35pm
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Started wearing glasses about the same time I became a teenager. Some time after 50 the doc thought bifocals were needed. I still read without them and for hard to read parts no. they for sure come off. Maybe makes more difference to me than some others,but now that I am used to bifocals keep the second lense in the same place. Even with all the measuring they got it wrong. What difference it made having them move it. Can be fun to make fun of the better half and all they think we need,but I for sure appreciated mine when I was more dead than alive and doc want to use my body for science experiment. All I needed was the gallbladder removed that was rotting away,but he had other ideas. She set him straight and told him to stop wasting time. My problem came to a head July 4th weekend 2 years ago and she told me I was seeing the doctor on Monday. An I said no dear,that is a holiday. The last time I tried to correct her
 and been right. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 4:17am
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Hey Thad,,,don't let "old Age" get you down and thank Ms Jenn for caring enough bout you to want you to be able to see HER better,,,yea,,that's it,,,!!!. Seriously, I'm bettin you are liking all her attention to you,,,and that is Good,,!! I been wearin glasses since the 3rd grade and never had a pair that I felt helped me. I've had progressive lenses and always have to take glasses off to see really small stuff up close. Same for trying to work under a dash,,,,, |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 7:39am
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I have been wearing progressive bifocals for about 15 years now. Gotta watch it on stairs first week or 2. The frames I have now are very flexible. You can almost wad them up. Can't break them very easily and have endured through the last 3 prescriptions. Have transition lenses these last 2 times and really like them. Not as good as sunglasses but sure helps. I don't even notice they have changed till I walk back into a dark room and have to wait a second so I don't run into something.
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Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 7:53am
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I've had glasses since freshman year in high school. Also the progressive lenses. In all reality I don't mind as they have protected my eyes many times. Just thankful to be able to see. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 8:02am
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I've been wearing corrective eyeglasses since 1st grade. It's normal to want to fight wearing them. My Dad noticed me struggling with them & gave me the best advise. He asked me, "Do glasses help you see better?" "Yes," I answered. To which he replied, "Then you'd better wear them. You only have two eyes & you can't get new ones." |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 1:36pm
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I've worn glasses all my life, 1st or 2nd grade. First pair hurt my ears, my Dad said, "Put them on and leave them on". I did wear contacts and then bifocal contacts for a few years. Them bifocals were nice, I could put reading glasses on if I needed more. If you do go that route, don't get the kind where they put a close one in one eye and a distant one in the other. It made me sick and dizzy. Like Lou said, progressives work great, and get them with the auto dark. Really makes life easy when you don't need to carry sunglasses or another pair around with you! Treat them like a fine tractor and they'll serve you until you need a new pair, approximately a year from now. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: johnkc
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 2:30pm
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Had a new pair of glasses that they put the bifocal half way up the lenses. Try operating a dozer or tractor with that. They told me I would have to bow my head down and I would get used to it. BS. I had them lower the bifocal as low as it could go. Also after 25 years of getting my glasses from the Dr’s office because I felt the quality was superior to Walmart, I went to Walmart and got glasses. The best glasses I have ever had and much less cost than the Dr’s dispensary. Go figure..... ------------- I support the development of hybrid automobiles and alternative fuels as I need DIESEL fuel for my ALLIS CHALMERS! |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 6:14pm
Thad, are you a man or a mouse? Squeak up! ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 6:30pm
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When I was an aircraft technician and a crew chief on Hueys and Blackhawks in the National Guard I was required to wear bifocals when on flight duty. The only time I didn't wear then was when flying with night vision goggles since I could adjust the focus on those. Never cared for them much since my eyesight only need a little correction but the technician program and the Guard both furnished them so I used them, especially the safety glasses. Now I just keep a few pairs of cheaters (reading glasses) around for fine print and use safety glasses when I need them. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 10:04pm
Happily married to my childhood Sweet Heart. Never in my life have I been so happy. She’s a very good woman and I’m quite proud of her. I don’t know if that’s what your getting at??? |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2018 at 10:23pm
| You will find wearing a sweat band will be a BIG help. Last time I got glasses I wound up with trifocals. I got them at one of those national known chains. Never again, I like to read and these things are almost totally useless for that. I will be going back to my local Dr for the next ones. |
Posted By: copyrite1972
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:59am
Wearin' them glasses might even keep ya' from gettin' more steel in yer' eye!  ------------- D15 Series II |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2018 at 12:04pm
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Thad, just poking at you. After nearly 50 years I have learned that it is best to listen to my wife. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2018 at 12:27pm
😂😂😂 and after 7 months I’ve learned I have a lot more to learn. Lol I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I figured you were makin me tell all and get imbarrased in front of all the misfits. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2018 at 2:32pm
Well Thad, I just got rid of my glasses that I've worn for over 50 years. I always needed em for distance, I could read ANYTHING up close, no matter how small. I had them off most of the time and doing so made my eyes stronger I guess.... NOW, comes the BIG QUESTION!!!  Just how much better looking did your bride get now with the cheaters?  And NO, you don't need em in the dark,,,------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2018 at 3:51pm
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Misfits!? who you callin' misfits? LOL ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2018 at 5:18pm
Well it sounds like we might have a skeezix in the bunch.  LOL------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2018 at 11:45pm
| LMAO....yep....i'm with JOhnKC and Tom, wear a sweat band, them gits some of them glasses from wally world or like places. I had to have bi-fokels for my work looking at puter screens all night. and after putting up with headaches from that and the florencent lighting, I gots the cheap reading glasses of the right strength and put a cap on to cut down the glare. problems solved, and it's so much cheaper going and buying them cheapies after you sit on them or step on them than buying them spensive ones for replacements. I can read a license plate across the street, but can't see what i'm reading in front of me. hard to see the casino screens too without them cheapies! I hang them on the front collar of my shirt when not in use, keeps them handy when I need them. oh....and i'm PROUD to admit....i'm a MISFIT! |
Posted By: PatrickC007
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 6:49am
Oh, man. Wives always do things like that. You just should get used to them. Exactly the same thing did my wife. Firstly, she made me propose her then she started using my credit card, then she said to me that I need to go to the oculist and check my vision. Now I have -3,00 on the left and right eyes. I thought about buying some great glasses from RayBan but when I found out that they will cost me more than $100 I thought that I don't need this  ) And I just ordered sunglasses with dioptrics from http://https://www.layoners.com/sunglasses-for-men/" rel="nofollow - https://www.layoners.com . They cost me under $50. |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 11:31am
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Thad, Good luck with the new glasses. Embrace them but if they are not working for you after a couple days go back and have them corrected. When I had to start wearing them for close up computer work, I decided to just leave them on all the time. Seems to have worked out as safety glasses too. Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 11:58am
| Already on my second pair since then. Probably getting more in just over a month. That was 2 years ago.🤣 |