Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Gotta start somewhere....

I am dumbfounded by the fact that I am suddenly 47, ( almost 48) years old. It's pathetic really that I actually thought that I was special, or different somehow and that I'd never really age and that normal human frailties would not apply to me. It's the height of narcissism really to complain and be shocked by the fact that I am now officially an old woman.
   So last month I have to break down and get a pair of reading glasses. But I stress to everyone who is within earshot that "they are the weeeea-kest strength". I actually let out a little harrumph everytime I put them on. Yesterday I downloaded 2 apps for exercising and the print on the instructions was so tiny I had to get my glasses to read how to do a sit-up properly. Really? Good god, my great-grandmother was out in the back yard chasing down and wringing the neck of chickens for dinner when she was 47/48 and here I sit on my living room floor with my iphone exercise app and reading glasses. Maybe I should buy some chickens for the back yard............

5 comments:

  1. Welcome to the blogosphere, Debbie! Love the look of the site!

    Yeah, I need to get bifocals. I have to keep taking my glasses off to read up close. Or, for that REALLY attractive look, I've got my nose up and trying to look out below my glasses. Sigh. So it goes, yes?

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  2. A few years ago, the eye Dr. suggested that it was time for bi-focals, reading glasses. I know he has seen the look I gave him a hundred times before. "Do you think I look that old".

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  3. Made a to-do list a week ago. Had "optometrist appointment" on it because I, too, will soon be joining the ranks of the bi-focaled...

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  4. In my mid-forties, I started experiencing those eye problems that we all know about now. I had a friend at church who was an opthamologist, & I told him that I probably would have to schedule an appointment with him & described my difficulties. He asked how old I was, & I told him, to which he replied, "Well, there's your diagnosis."

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  5. No sympathies from me, Debbie. We are the same age and I've had reading glasses for years. I'm already on the 2.0 strength. The last time I went to the eye doctor he said that it would continue to get worse until I turned 50 and that my "good" eye would catch up with my "bad" eye - fantastic!

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