@matigo Wow. It's £12.99 a month here.
// @sumudu
@ayumi Guys can be very weird. Keep your eye on him - though Poppy says a well-placed paw can result in treats…
@variablepulserate You could be right - our brains compensate for a lot of eye shortcomings anyway and there is an argument that wearing corrective glasses stops the eyes from working as hard and the brain from interpreting the “wrong” information and making it correct. Let’s face it, the eyes see upside down anyway, which the brain corrects for. I’m sure there’s a point beyond which things aren’t possible, though. My brother was so shortsighted he simply couldn’t see a ball until it was right in front of his eyes. No brain can really correct for something it simply can’t see at all. I don’t think you can compensate for presbyopia, either. Strong light helps a bit, as I found. Even with reading lenses I still need stronger light to read small print nowadays. That's why I use a Kindle so much - variable front illumination and adjustable text size. Some paperbacks I need a torch for, in addition to my specs - but that tends to happen to everyone in time.
@variablepulserate Well that’s good. Hope it works out. Eyesight is a very precious thing.
I’ve worn glasses since I was seven. Yeah, pink nhs frames on a kid with bright auburn hair. I don’t think I’ve recovered from the trauma. I was so relieved when they brought out tortoiseshell ones. I started off long-sighted, then short, then I got given a prescription for astigmatism when I was about 15. They warned me my brain would take a while to adapt - they weren’t wrong. For several days it looked like the ground was at 45°. Horrid feeling. It’s a damn nuisance when it changes, because it makes previous specs unwearable unless I want to feel queasy. I still don’t know why it should change, but it does. I’m hoping that if my lenses harden as I get older, it will stop that, but who knows.
Luckily I don’t have the extra holes in my eyes. I just know what to do if I ever have an acute attack, (basically get to an eye emergency dept), plus I have to wear photochromic lenses to lessen the impact of going from light to dark places - something to do with the iris having pigment cells rubbed more if the pupil changes quickly. Not that my pupils contract properly anyway. I dunno, never really fully understood the issue. It’s never caused a major problem; it isn’t glaucoma, but too much pigment liberation could cause a blockage and an acute glaucoma attack. Yay.
@variablepulserate Well that's good to know. 😀 I guess you could always close one eye.
They can fix all sorts of things with lasers, but I can’t say I fancy the thought of having laser surgery on my eyes. The medics threatened to laser an additional drainage hole into my eyes because of the pigment dispersion. I wasn’t keen, but agreed. Luckily the day I went for it, I saw the consultant who was happy to agree that it wasn’t really needed, as the condition had never caused any damage to my retina. Phew!
If I ever get cataracts then assuming they insert a correctly shaped lens the astigmatism should go away. Then I could buy cheap reading glasses maybe.
My eyesight isn’t really that bad: +1 and +0.75, with a reading addition of +2.5 & +2.75. I think the worst I ever was, was -1.25. The astigmatism angle just means that horizontal/vertical is the least in focus, so I get eye strain easily. And of course since the age of 40 I’ve needed a reading addition. But I’m typing this on my 6” iPhone without my glasses on, no problem at all.
My brother, however, has always been very short-sighted, though maybe less so now he’s in his 50s. 🤷♀
@matigo Agreed. It was instilled into a lot of my generation through Scouts, Brownies & Guides. Not sure how popular they are nowadays.
It’s a scarily isolating world at times, though I’m lucky to live in a fairly small community - but conversely I don’t have the usual network of Mums whose children have gone through school together, or local work colleagues.
We now have a cohort of youngsters who missed out on valuable socialising thanks to Covid. Some kids fared worse than others, but most people I know say their children/grandchildren were affected to some degree. My younger nephew found it quite hard at times, I think. I do wonder quite what we have done to the next generation - nothing much that’s good!
@variablepulserate Trust you to be weird! I'm slightly unusual in that my astigmatism is because of mis-shapen lenses in both eyes: most often it's the shape of the eyeball, or the layer of fluid in front of the eye.
@matigo I'm firmly in the analogue camp, with my Seiko 5. I had a Fitbit for a few years, but I find having to get new batteries for quartz watches irritating, so the Fitbit annoyed me; imagine what an Apple watch would do for me. Although, with my post-Covid balance issues, and living alone, I rather like the fall detection on them. Still, I can't see me deserting my old-style watch any time soon.
// @jussipekonen
@matigo No they won’t - not if you keep a count of the rows you have done. It’s easy! They even have little twisty things to put on needles to make it easy to do, though I tend to tick mine off using pencil & paper.
// @variablepulserate
@variablepulserate Perhaps your handsy hobby should be knitting or crochet, so you can make yourself some nice warm jumpers. Says the knitter/crocheter who has a couple of projects on the go, but who bought a fleecy top (budget Oodie) from Amazon. Just preparing for the winter and avoiding crippling energy bills…