My husband is aging more gracefully than I. This
is hard to take on many fronts, but he also does not want to admit to some
changes. I encouraged him to get reading glasses when he called me
into our kitchen to tell him what some numbers were on engineering
drawings. He claims the readers made his eyesight worse and now
wears trifocals. This is hilarious. I have worn glasses
my whole life. For those of you that knew me in high school and are
thinking, “she didn’t wear glasses”, I was just vain. I went through
most of high school in a haze. Most of the high school haze was
caused by blurred vision. So back to the
trifocals. Apparently he needs to see distance, close up and the “in
between”. What, is the “in between”? Well the best example of the "in
between" is the dash on the car. He wants to read the
dials. So he spends a lot time moving his glasses, his eyeballs and
his head around to focus on what he wants to see in the correct
lens. He complains about these glasses all the time. I
tell him to just get bifocals, that is what I wear and they are
great. But what about the “in between”? This is where
never having 20/20 vision in my life comes in. Just guess about the
“in between” is my advice. OR “they have this great thing on most
cars where you can get digital display of your speed and the font is very
large; you could use that.” I say. He refuses, just like he refuses
to use the back-up camera – don’t get me started.
