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Aye for an Eye

It's been a fairly lazy day so far. We unpacked a couple more boxes and I did some straightening up, but we're a bit too weary to look through and put away the nine or so that still need storage up in the loft. We did, however, get our eye exams, and it was pretty much good news for me. My near-sightedness hasn't gotten worse (600 in the left, 650 in the right) so I can retain my current glasses for emergency wear (and won't have any trouble with distance vision when I drive and before the new glasses are ready). The ghost vessels in my cornea seem to be receding a bit, so I might actually think about disposable contacts again someday (the contact lens-induced vascularization was a couple decades back). Alas, as I knew I would, I do indeed need, as they euphemistically put it, "reading glasses." I'm opting for gold frames that are actually in style (i.e., not owlish like my current ones) with progressive lenses, which are like bifocals or omnifocals or whatever only without the line, and they'll also be high-index (i.e., lighter and thinner) and transitional (i.e., shift to sunglasses if it's bright outside) and anti-reflective and have a scratch-resistant coating. Together with the exam, thanks to my health plan which finally covers vision, it'll all cost about as much as I've paid for my orthotics, another thing I can't do without that I wear every day. And Robin's covered too, so he got an exam and put in an order for new glasses as well (his Rx climbed slightly in one eye since his last checkup 6 years ago, which isn't too bad either). It'll be nice to finally read normally again, see my food as I eat it, etc.