More Joy Day is Thursday Jan 25

[boxofdelights]

More Joy Day 2018 is this Thursday, Jan 25. I shoveled both my next-door neighbors' sidewalk, right before the mailman got here, which would have been a good More Joy Day deed, but any day can be More Joy Day if you make it so.

I just got progressive lenses. It feels like my glasses are all smudged, all the time. This gets better, right?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, it takes around three weeks for the progressives to become second nature.

Wear ice cleats!

[siderea]

Yes, it takes around three weeks for the progressives to become second nature.

From your mouth to the electorate's ears!

[wild_irises]

This.

[bibliofile]

WIN!

[isis]

I immediately took to progressives and was all, "Oh, this is what was wrong!" but I guess I'm an outlier. :-)

[snippy]

It took me about 3 weeks. Then when I was forbidden to wear them (vertigo) it took me 3 weeks to adjust to contacts for distance vision + put on reading glasses for computer work and reading. I have one pair that is just for hand-work like sewing on a button or threading a needle.

[randomdreams]

Things I learned recently: a good optometrist will overcompensate the lowest section of progressive lenses so that the part you use for reading is just right.
I opted for bifocals, and still feel like the world is newly full of smudgy twitchy things.

[brigantine]

I never did get used to progressive lenses, and I ended up abandoning them for mostly no glasses at all, with simple reading glasses as necessary. However, I know people at work who love their progressive lenses, so maybe I'm the odd one out. Fingers crossed yours will work out!

[bibliofile]

You are not alone. I prefer bifocals with a line, or a pair of prescription reading glasses (my eyes are weird).

I like holding my head in odd positions all the time, and you can't really do that with progressives.

[malnpudl]

Don't give up on progressives if it takes longer than 3 weeks. Some of us are atypical. It took me just over two months, and then one day, I woke up to find that magic had been done overnight and everything was just fine, thank you kindly. It was a long two months, but for me, more than worth it in the end.