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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42315 on: January 23, 2012, 12:12:22 am »

I only got glasses for the first time when I was 18. I'm to use them for everything EXCEPT using the computer or reading.
I'm especially supposed to use them when driving.

I can see clearly to about 5 metres.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42316 on: January 23, 2012, 12:13:35 am »

I can't see my screen clearly without my glasses, but with them on, I can find my golf ball at about 125 yards, provided it's not buried in weeds or something, as it usually is.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42317 on: January 23, 2012, 12:15:18 am »

A lot of near sighted people on bay12...
What is more common, near or far?

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42318 on: January 23, 2012, 12:16:03 am »

A lot of near sighted people on bay12...
What is more common, near or far?
near, farsight only when you are usually old

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42319 on: January 23, 2012, 12:17:09 am »

God dammit, I have the eyesight of an old man...

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42320 on: January 23, 2012, 12:23:21 am »

A lot of near sighted people on bay12...
What is more common, near or far?
near, farsight only when you are usually old

Not particularly. Both near and far sightedness is dependent on the shape of your eyeballs.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42321 on: January 23, 2012, 12:23:56 am »

Still... I have never really felt comfortable being dependant on something to get by.
I pretty much developed a full on phobia of medical drugs for fear of developing a dependency, and now being told that I will need glasses seems sort of scary. I'm very much a 'carry your house on your back' kind of guy, and that becomes more and more difficult the more things become indisposable.
Well, you don't need them in a technical sense. You can go functionally blind just fine, it'll just mean becoming pretty much non-functional in a lot of ways. 40's a good age to shoot for you're looking to go without all those delightful dependency-related advances the human race has made in the last few hundred years, really.

I've got that near-phobia of drugs, too, but glasses don't elicit nearly the same response from me. I can take glasses off really easily, after all. Be basically useless, yes, but there's not a direct physiological dependency of any sort. They're just a tool, like a magnifying glass.

Started wearing them I think around 17-18 years ago, though, which probably has something to do with it. Also helps that not wearing them and attempting to function (read: Read or identify any details beyond that foot or so) is accompanied by crippling headaches. Having to choose between a painkiller dependency or glasses is a really easy choice :P

God dammit, I have the eyesight of an old man...
Better than the spine or the nervous system of one ;)

And not really. Plenty of old men can see just fine, same as plenty of young ones have trouble seeing. I've had functional vision problems since I was in the single digit year range and I know people in their 80s that don't have a single issue. It's just a thing, yanno'?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42322 on: January 23, 2012, 12:25:04 am »

Better than the spine or the nervous system of one ;)
It's not so..oh, wait, yes it is. Bluh.
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« Reply #42323 on: January 23, 2012, 12:26:49 am »

Haha, yeah. Doc looked at my lower back when I was 18, "ohey, you've got the spine of 40 year old." That was not a fun day, though the sensation of something stabbing my lower back for the week or so beforehand was considerably less fun :P
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« Reply #42324 on: January 23, 2012, 12:29:24 am »

Yea, looking at a trip to the chiropractor next, we shall see how that works out...

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42325 on: January 23, 2012, 12:29:37 am »

Spina Bifida Occulta + Pars Defect + series of micro-fractures - pain meds of any kind = MaximumZero.
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« Reply #42326 on: January 23, 2012, 12:31:47 am »

Somebody should have warned me that bringing up medical problems in the sad thread leads to the more depressing of conversations...

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42327 on: January 23, 2012, 12:32:55 am »

Hey, anyone know where I can find the source of all pain and punch it in the mouth? I could really go for that right now.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42328 on: January 23, 2012, 12:33:29 am »

Somebody should have warned me that bringing up medical problems in the sad thread leads to the more depressing of conversations...
Oh do tell, i got family history in a can waiting to be open anytime.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #42329 on: January 23, 2012, 12:33:41 am »

I have  a cold and a very important exam next week
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