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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2017-09-13 08:02 am
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Aging; declining vision

This morning I received You want hot sex? e-mail spam and my first thought was, My goodness, that sounds tiring. Perhaps I am no longer a youth. In particular, in trying to read tiny print off a failing solid-state drive I found that, wearing their glasses, [personal profile] mst3kmoxie and our daughter could read it more easily than I. Indeed, I had opted to put the drive in a flatbed scanner and read from the scanned image. My distance vision certainly remains very good.

While I now forget the details of past visits to optometrists and similar, I do recall that many years ago my vision was measured at 20/12 and later seemed to have degraded to 20/15 or so. I am due for another eye check which I bother with more for eye health than visual acuity but I now wonder how much further my vision has degraded and how many years away eye correction yet is.
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[personal profile] doug 2017-09-13 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
From the sound of this, I'd strongly suggest an appointment with an optician. I don't like having to use reading glasses, but it's better than needing them and not using them. And if you don't need glasses for general use, you should be able to get away with cheapo readymade reading glasses.