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So, I got new glasses from America's Best, which I've never used before. They were cheap, and well, glasses are glasses, right? I picked up my new glasses today. One pair of bifocals, one pair of computer glasses.
The bifocals have the line rather higher than on the old glasses, and my eyes had a hard time adjusting both to the new clarity and to the location of the bifocal portion of the focal. In the eight years since I last had new glasses, my right eye as developed an astigmatism. So the change in clarity is quite striking, but my eyes are working hard at getting used to the new glasses. So, I have a very small headache.
Just at the moment, though, I'm wearing my computer glasses, and there's something very, very odd. The screen on my laptop is trapezoidal, rather than square, distinctly smaller at the bottom than at the top, with the sides slanting outwards. It doesn't look like this when I put on my old glasses, it looks roughly square (which of course it actually is). Moreover, when I put on my new bifocals, the trapezoidal shape is still there, although somewhat less pronounced. I am seriously weirded out by this. Is there something wrong with these glasses? Or is this what happens when you correct for astigmatism in two eyes at the same time?
It's Minicon, so I really don't have time to deal with this and go to the store and ask searching questions, and possibly insist that they make my glasses again ... which would be kind of a pain, anyway, since it took them nineteen days the last time.
Sigh. Possibly I should have stuck with Lenscrafters.
The bifocals have the line rather higher than on the old glasses, and my eyes had a hard time adjusting both to the new clarity and to the location of the bifocal portion of the focal. In the eight years since I last had new glasses, my right eye as developed an astigmatism. So the change in clarity is quite striking, but my eyes are working hard at getting used to the new glasses. So, I have a very small headache.
Just at the moment, though, I'm wearing my computer glasses, and there's something very, very odd. The screen on my laptop is trapezoidal, rather than square, distinctly smaller at the bottom than at the top, with the sides slanting outwards. It doesn't look like this when I put on my old glasses, it looks roughly square (which of course it actually is). Moreover, when I put on my new bifocals, the trapezoidal shape is still there, although somewhat less pronounced. I am seriously weirded out by this. Is there something wrong with these glasses? Or is this what happens when you correct for astigmatism in two eyes at the same time?
It's Minicon, so I really don't have time to deal with this and go to the store and ask searching questions, and possibly insist that they make my glasses again ... which would be kind of a pain, anyway, since it took them nineteen days the last time.
Sigh. Possibly I should have stuck with Lenscrafters.
