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OS: -1.00
What's written on my prescription slip is OD: "-075" and OS: "-100".
Bloody Optometrist Guy. Would it kill you to put in the stinking decimal points so that I don't Google it and be all wigged out that you've declared me Totally Rock Blind?
I haven't had my eyes checked in 5 years and they haven't changed in the last 13 years. Even with the amount of monitor staring that I do for most of the day, on a daily basis, in the last 13 years.
My childhood Optometrist, Dr. Cox, said I was born slightly far-sighted. This slowly deteriorated through the homework grind and I had glasses close to the end of highschool. They make everything a little sharper, but there's not much of a difference. I can drive without them. I can see the license plate of the car in front of me while keeping my distance.
I wore them in lecture halls where even the second or third row was too far back to see clearly. But since I've left the school scene, I haven't technically needed glasses again.
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would like new glasses soon and I was feeling like getting another pair now that I have classes. We're entitled to something like a free eye exam and $200 (each) of gear every two years.
O.D.
O.S.
Cylinder
Axis
Lens Type
Single Vision
17(100.0%)
Bifocal
0(0.0%)
Progressives
0(0.0%)
Trifocal
0(0.0%)
Whacky eye tricks. I can:
raise my left eyebrow.
3(12.5%)
raise my right eyebrow.
0(0.0%)
raise one eyebrow then the other rapidly, in succession.
0(0.0%)
cross my eyes (and I am not naturally cross-eyed).
5(20.8%)
go wall-eyed (and I am not naturally wall-eyed).
0(0.0%)
make one eye look up and the other look down.
0(0.0%)
force my eyeballs out of their sockets like those scary people on the Guinness Book of World Records show.
0(0.0%)
do [an]other crazy eye trick[s] O_o. (Please comment).
0(0.0%)
Comments
Wow that's really good. Is that BC's coverage? Or your company's insurance coverage?
Ontario stopped their coverage (formerly every 2 years) on Nov 1, 2004. We have to pay for eye exams. And forget any freebies on eye-gear. We never had that. (Unless you have coverage on your insurance).
I can't remember when BC ever had default vision coverage, but we've always had something through my parents' Work and only had to pay what wasn't covered.
What kind of frames are you thinking of getting? :) Or 8)
Wanna shop for frames online for me? =) What would you get if you were getting frames?
What kind of frames do you want? Metal? Frameless? Plastic? My face shape tend to look good with square, thick frames, so that's what I usually go for. I also have Silhouettes frameless glasses similar to these but I look pretty horrible in them. They might work for others?
I tried one that was a thin frame. It looked generic/timeless, which is okay but they were a "back up plan", y'know? Somehow the thicker plastic frames looked better, so that's what I ended up getting =)
But... the crazy eye trick I can do is make them shake/vibrate. *laughs* I don't do it often, but it's different.
Wow. =O =D Don't you wish there were a place on resumes for fun tricks like that? "Vibrate eyeballs", "do splits with toes". =)
Got all the #s - just started a new pair of disposable contacts today. Let's just say that my vision isn't as good as yours, though it's been steady for a *very* long time.
...you can do splits with your toes?!!
Not all the way anymore. When I was little, I used to split my big toe and the rest of my toes. It used to freak out all the grown-ups who would think that I broke my foot =D =D
I freak people out now by scrunching all my toes under and standing on them. And I do it totally unconsciously when I'm barefoot too! The Husband absolutely HATES looking down and seeing two little stubs =D
I do that too - it's my favorite place to carry tension. Favorite of many, my new chiropractor would say! ;-)
See, my Empathy Knees don't go off as long as I know it doesn't hurt you either =D
My parents and I learned that I needed glasses in third grade, when I couldn't do a "copy from the blackboard" assignment. And I didn't speak up, or ask to go to the front of the classroom to get a better look. Oops. We probably went to the eye doctor that same week.
And, empirically, trees had leaves again =) Well, until in Discrete Mathematics when you had to prove it by induction. =D
Same thing happened to me. I insisted that I could just always sit close to the board, thus, relieving me of needing glasses. My parents made me to the doc, and I got a pair, and on the way home, I looked at a street sign and said "Wow! I didn't know those things had words on them!!!" My mom felt really bad for not noticing sooner. XD
But I think I'm -0.5 on the left and +0.75(ish) on the right, and my right eye has some cylinder, too, but I don't remember how much.
Something like that.
I used to wear glasses only in class, but now I wear them pretty much all the time.
Ah, that makes sense. OD is "right eye" and OS is "left eye". "Sinistro" must be "left" because of the way they used to think of left-handedness.
*nods* though the transfer of meaning was the other way around, of course (i.e. it meant "left" first and "sinister" later).
And I could well be wrong about the exact endings; I never learned Latin.