I finally ordered new eyeglasses on Saturday. I say "finally" because the prescription is dated April 12, 2010. I'd hoped to find an optician I liked locally, and wasn't getting anywhere. So I went to the one ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adrian_turtle uses, in Arlington Center. If I'd realized, I could have ordered these back in May and had them by now. As is, I don't know how soon I'll be able to pick them up, because of my travel schedule and the optician's (not yet certain) vacation schedule.
In the end, after looking around for someplace else that had the frames I'd liked when I tried them at his place a while ago (the same shape as the ones Adrian has, but hers are tortoiseshell and I was looking at silver), I wound up getting a pair of titanium frames instead, mostly silver with bits of purple on the earpieces. About the same size lenses, and the frames are half the weight.
I also had a good conversation with the optician. I think he thought I was joking when he adjusted my current glasses and said something about them being off-balance, and my response was that yes, I tend to be. I didn't go into details on all this knee/balance/proprioception work, but it doesn't surprise me that the glasses wander from the horizontal. In the course of ordering a glare-resistant coating that is also more water-resistant than the current one, I mentioned that the skin around my eyes tends to be dry, and that I use vaseline to soothe it. No, that will stick even to this, though much dirt won't. He also said vaseline is fine, but almost anything else would be problematic in case it got into the eye). I also told him that I'd been considering asking my eye doctor about laser surgery, since the best they can do for me with glasses is 20/30 vision. Apparently if that's true, it's also the best they could do with surgery. OK, that's answered, keep the lasers away from my eyes.
Part of why we had time for such a long conversation is that I'd stuck the wrong piece of paper in my pocket when we set out, and Adrian kindly offered to go back to her apartment, grab my notebook and the eyeglass prescription, and return. (I also had time to read everything that interested me in the Saturday Boston Globe.) But part of the conversation was after Adrian got back with the prescription; I asked her opinion of both frames, and she said that the silver looked better, but both were fine, and I decided to go with comfort over looks. (Is anyone surprised by this?)
I left the optician my cell phone number (he wasn't going to ask for a number, he said) and Adrian's address because it's local to him. His response: "My stepmother lives next door." So he has a couple of ways of reaching me, if need be.
adrian_turtle uses, in Arlington Center. If I'd realized, I could have ordered these back in May and had them by now. As is, I don't know how soon I'll be able to pick them up, because of my travel schedule and the optician's (not yet certain) vacation schedule.In the end, after looking around for someplace else that had the frames I'd liked when I tried them at his place a while ago (the same shape as the ones Adrian has, but hers are tortoiseshell and I was looking at silver), I wound up getting a pair of titanium frames instead, mostly silver with bits of purple on the earpieces. About the same size lenses, and the frames are half the weight.
I also had a good conversation with the optician. I think he thought I was joking when he adjusted my current glasses and said something about them being off-balance, and my response was that yes, I tend to be. I didn't go into details on all this knee/balance/proprioception work, but it doesn't surprise me that the glasses wander from the horizontal. In the course of ordering a glare-resistant coating that is also more water-resistant than the current one, I mentioned that the skin around my eyes tends to be dry, and that I use vaseline to soothe it. No, that will stick even to this, though much dirt won't. He also said vaseline is fine, but almost anything else would be problematic in case it got into the eye). I also told him that I'd been considering asking my eye doctor about laser surgery, since the best they can do for me with glasses is 20/30 vision. Apparently if that's true, it's also the best they could do with surgery. OK, that's answered, keep the lasers away from my eyes.
Part of why we had time for such a long conversation is that I'd stuck the wrong piece of paper in my pocket when we set out, and Adrian kindly offered to go back to her apartment, grab my notebook and the eyeglass prescription, and return. (I also had time to read everything that interested me in the Saturday Boston Globe.) But part of the conversation was after Adrian got back with the prescription; I asked her opinion of both frames, and she said that the silver looked better, but both were fine, and I decided to go with comfort over looks. (Is anyone surprised by this?)
I left the optician my cell phone number (he wasn't going to ask for a number, he said) and Adrian's address because it's local to him. His response: "My stepmother lives next door." So he has a couple of ways of reaching me, if need be.
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