At Least I Have My Health

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Yesterday, the entirety of my life right now was epitomized at about 7:17 a.m., when I knocked rather timidly on Liz’s door, with my pulse racing a mile a minute.

 

“Gzuh?” went Liz.

 

“Sorry to wake you,” I said, the initial rise of panic I had felt upon my discovery still lingering inside me. “I can’t find my glasses!”

 

In all my years of wearing glasses—let’s see, that would be 13—I have only lost them twice. And there is nothing quite so alarming as putting your hand out and not finding them there.

 

You can’t look for them. You can’t see anything. Your vision is reduced to blobs of ill-defined color and light, and you’ve gone and picked those damn Swissflex glasses that are unobtrusive to wear and invisible to you when you take them off. You feel around the spot you always put them, peering at it from two inches away. You could be looking directly at your glasses and you’d never know, because you can’t see anything.

 

And it brings home to you, more than anything has in a long time, that if you were stuck on a desert island and your glasses were washed away, you would die.*

 

So Liz came out, looked around for about two seconds, and pulled out my glasses where I had knocked them into my underwear drawer. I thanked her profusely, and she went back to bed.

 

Thank the gods I live when I do. Glasses and indoor plumbing are fantastically good.

 

 

*Or, if you had your glasses, the other castaways would smash you with a rock and steal them and have a clan war.

Comments

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that's me. -7 vision. Argh.

[teacupdiaries.livejournal.com]

Ack, I hate that!

My vision isn't too bad at around -6.10 in one eye, -5.75 in t'other, but I still get that panicked feeling in my chest if I misplace my glasses.

[(Anonymous)]

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It made me laugh.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, he IS. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I sort-of remember doing that. It was a bit hazy. But don't worry, I wasn't to bothered by being woken up.
~Liz, -3.25 in both eyes.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

That happened to me once (well, more than that, but) while I was living alone in WI.

I had to call in to work.

I was crying.

I don't enjoy remembering it.

I'm glad you have a roommate.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

My senior year I accidentally sat on my glasses and had to wear my emergency back-up pair--prescription sunglasses--until they got fixed. To get them fixed I had to send them home to IL from NY. At the time, the lenses on the backup pair were coke-bottle thick. If I went without my glasses for longer than about fifteen minutes I would get a nasty headache.

Now, my vision is significantly better because I had a very expensive doctor carve out bits of my cornea with a laser. Consider getting your eyes fixed when your prescription stabilizes.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Glasses should totally come with a mini-beeper attached, like one of those car-door thingies. You just smack a big red button, and your glasses beep until you find them.