20th Feb 2008

you’ve got to be kidding me

I’ve started to need reading glasses. Actually like the kind that balance on the tip of your nose. I kid you not — I’m only 34, this isn’t fair. So I have reading glasses from the pharmacy to wear with my contacts and will have to get bifocals for my regular glasses (which are in the shop because Willa got a hold of them the other day. In one week she scratched up my glasses and got sick all over my car, which I now have to get detailed. Expensive dog.)

So I wore my reading glasses yesterday for the first time and they helped but I haven’t yet figured out how to look above them. I walked into the wall of my office not once but twice while trying to get out the door — everything was so magnified and I forgot to put my glasses on my head.

Reading glasses, foundation garments, constant sunscreen. Does anything else say middle aged in quite the same way? Dammit.

3 Responses to “you’ve got to be kidding me”

  1. Gloria Says:

    mammograms and colonoscopies

  2. Patrick Says:

    Dana,
    Years ago I developed presbyopia. My problem was that I always was forgetting my reading glasses. At work and at home, I have several pairs of reading glasses everywhere, but when I go out, I forget or don’t want to carry them. Because of this, I invented i4ulenses, credit card size reading glasses you keep in your wallet like a credit card. These are pinch nose lenses you perch on your nose and not plastic magnifiers you hold in your hands. Check our web site http://www.i4ulenses.com for more details.
    Pat Herman

  3. Laurence Says:

    Dana,
    Don’t even get me started.
    33 went down hill, my hips started going. Drs found arthritis in my back.
    I feel like an old lady and I’m only pushing 40!!
    Worse news of the week: my kids tell me I’m not cool.
    I used to be…I don’t know what happened.

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