one eye looking forwards...

(one eye looking back). Or as my optician called it, monocular vision. My eyes are doing what eyes do, which is get worse in both directions, so, contrarily, my optician has decided to alter the prescription to be better in one and worse in the other.

My shortsightedness is now rocking something in excess of -7, while my reading range is somewhere out at half a metre. This is not good. For one thing, my arms just aren't used to holding books up half a metre away from my face for extended periods. Buried in a book was my look. I was comfy with it. Now I'm contemplating some sort of book kite arrangement. Also, at that height, I tend to drop things on my nose. I mean, less now than I did, because I've been slowly getting trained by my deteriorating sight, but even so.

Perhaps I should go digital: all books weigh the same then. And yes, it's true. Getting hit by a phone would seem to be the better choice: lighter, smaller. Easier to find with the lights out. But in fact it always hits edge on, and wow. Those physics lessons about mass x area for pressure at point of impact probably are relevant, but the sums can be left to someone who cares more than I do the underlying reasons for the difference between ugh for a book landing on your face, and an ow ffs for a phone. I've just learned to read my phone while lying on my side instead.

So I now have one eye that is eagle eyed, piercing the distance. And one that is optimised for books and computers. It's been about three hours and I'm quite pleased with the results. I don't keep wanting to take the contacts out to read things. I am not squinting helplessly at street signs and station boards.

It's good.

(Less good was the glasses replacement session, which requires frames walking that narrow ground between too hipster and too Dame Edna. I tried one pair with frames that looked like go faster stripes across my cheekbnones, but I just am not that avant garde. I have grey ones. Not too big, not too small, just enough frame to hold the lenses in, while not enough frame to make a statement. I also declined the bling option.)