My glasses broke in half last night!

[meow2u3]

I was watching TV in bed last night when my glasses broke right down the middle. I had to order a new pair, thanks to a current eyeglass prescription I have that I couldn't afford to fill before. It'll be a week before I'll be able to see clearly. Notice that I do not look very happy!

[HopeHoops]

1. I'm sorry, but even if you used a huge wad of masking tape you couldn't pass as a nerd.

My father, on the other hand, didn't NEED masking tape to pass as a nerd. I've seen the pictures from high school. He was a AAA class nerd if there ever was one. He got better.

I feel lost without my glasses. I have three different pairs. The first is my pair of bifocals. The second is just the close-up prescription and I use that for computer work. The third is just the distance prescription and I use that for driving. If I get up from the computer and forget to switch glasses, it takes me a while to figure out why the world is a bit fuzzy, especially if I haven't been drinking.

[meow2u3]

2. I can't even SEE without my glasses

The location of the break requires a soldering job. Tape or glue just won't cut it.

[HopeHoops]

8. My dad's kind of like that. When I was a kid, he had lenses that were about an inch thick.

At least they SEEMED that thick.

[applegrove]

12. My brother spent a few years in his 30s walking around with tape holding his glasses together. He's

quite the intellectual/nerd/character so he could carry it off.

[blue neen]

3. I understand the feeling.

One time I was taking a nap on the bed and had taken my glasses off. Upon awakening, I tried to pick up the glasses but ended up knocking them on the floor. I stood up to look for them, only to tramp right on the eyeglasses and smash them! Oh, the wonders of myopia! :)

I had corrective laser surgery 3 years ago. It was the best thing ever!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Yes, myopia!!

I'm a high minus and was told that laser surgery is out of the question. I'd rather have a lens implant.

In the meantime, the glasses are either a)on the face; b) within arm's reach on the night stand; c) on the crapcatcher table in the bathroom when showering.

Some people just don't understand how important glasses are to some of us. I think people who freak out when they have to start wearing bifocals at 40 when they had perfect eyes before are just vain.

My focal distance in my GOOD eye is six inches. Mom couldn't understand why I always read with my nose stuck in a book. Second grade she took me to the eye doc and found out why -- I couldn't see!

The damn school nurse had her little light box 20 feet away at the front of the classroom telling me to point at which direction the Es went.

I sat there and said "I can't see that" about fifty times and nobody heard me.

Damn stupid bitch.

[Duer 157099]

5. Well there's good news in your future!

Just wait a bit longer and you'll have cataracts and then suddenly (if you have insurance) you'll be able to see for the first time in your life without glasses. That happened to me recently after having to wear glasses/contacts since grade school and was not a candidate for laser surgery.

It's been over a year and I still can't believe that I can wake up in the morning and not have to reach for glasses.

[blue neen]

9. I was a minus 7.5 with astigmatism!

The doctors said that "this case is at the very limit of what we can do!" It worked out though, and I'm very thankful!

[meow2u3]

10. I'm a minus 5.25 in my right eye and minus 4.75 in my left

With astigmatism and in need of bifocals to boot! I'll be 50 in 2 1/2 months! Can't see a damn thing without my second set of eyes. :hurts:

I just got the news that it'll be 2 weeks before I get my new glasses--not one as I thought.

[blue neen]

11. It's such a stress on your whole system when you can't see properly.

I hope they can put a "rush" on your new glasses! Good luck!

[Duer 157099]

6. That happened to me when I used to wear glasses

And my only recourse was to try to solder the damn things myself, even though I didn't know how to solder and was practically blind. It must have been funny to watch. I had to be really close to see what I was doing, but the heat kept me from being close enough to see what I was doing.

But now I can see because I had cataract surgery last year and it's unreal to be able to see unaided.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. How about a crimp splice?

[JCMach1]

13. duct tape?

:shrug:

[mwooldri]

14. *hugs* - a week for glasses? You must have ordered online...

My wife gets her glasses from Zenni Optical. They're cheap enough there to order a few spare pairs and definitely cheaper than Wallyworld even though the glasses probably all come from the same place anyway.

If you can, I'd recommend at least getting a cheap $10 pair from these guys so there's a spare somewhere for occasions like this.

Here's to better vision in your near future.

Mark.

[Patiod]

15. EyeBuyDirect.com - makes glasses affordable

We didn't know about these sites until recently. SO and I are both unemployed, and he needed new glasses. Unfortunately he has a very thick prescription, so we have to order extra-thin lenses, which the conventional stores price sky-high.

We ordered very nice frames, progressive bifocals, "extra-thin/extra-light" lenses (which were substantially thinner than ForEyes thinnest lens) and received the glasses in less than a week, all for exactly $103. Which was about $250 less than we paid at ForEyes.

Had we gone for cheaper frames, we could have had the same Rx for about $83.

[meow2u3]

17. I ordered from BestPriceGlasses.com

The total was under $90. Cheaper than Zenni and EyeBuyDirect.

http://www.bestpriceglasses.com/

[Patiod]

18. sweet!

I'll have to give them a look.

I went with EyeBuyDirect because one of my very, very snobby British friends swears by them. There is no WAY this guy would put up with cheap-looking glasses, so I knew they would be okay.

[hippywife]

16. Do you have your previous set of glasses

still around the house? That's what I'm using since mine broke about a year ago.