pebblerocker | (no subject)

Today I passed a woman going down the road using crutches, and she was wearing a badge saying "I have low vision". Interesting -- not something I've seen before -- is it useful to her to carry a label telling people something about her they might not notice? -- what sort of changes does the badge make to the way she gets around in the world? I wonder.

I was also sent off along a different thought train because of the irony that it was my partner who saw the badge and told me what it said; my vision isn't good enough to have read it myself, without my glasses on. Boyfriend's vision is similarly poor (we can borrow each other's glasses for brief sign-reading etc) but he wears his glasses most of the time and thinks I should do the same. I find my glasses uncomfortable and fatiguing and they make it hard for me to see things close up (arm too short to read my watch with them on!) so I put them on when they're useful to me (when I'll be looking at exclusively far-off things which I need to see in detail) and the rest of the time I have strategies for working with the eyes I've got. To me boyfriend's attitude to glasses tastes of doctor-knows-best medical compliancism, but he says wearing glasses doesn't hurt his eyes like it does mine.

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Everyone's eyes are different- for me, glasses are strictly time-limited as they give me headaches due to the stress of brain reconciling *very* different prescription on each eye. I used to wear contacts all the time, but my last visit I wound up with lenses that wouldn't let me see the computer monitor or handwork, so I gave up on vision correction and just lean and squint.

Reading this reminds me that I am extremely lucky. After all, my eyes are still quite able and relatively healthy. I didn´t know you had such problems.
And you are a very brave girl!!!*Hugs*