A New Pair Of Glasses
I just got a new pair of glasses. And it took me awhile to get used to them. You would think that as long as I have been wearing them, transitions from an old pair to a new pair would be easy. But it is just not. Also, you would think that as long as big optical labs have been churning out specs for the near or far of sight that the process would be really smooth. But maybe it is just me.
I think I was in the third grade of school when I first got a pair of glasses. My mother was nearsighted and watched for signs that I might be too. On drives through the country to my grandma’s house she would quiz me about distant road signs. There came a day when I had trouble reading them. I didn’t know I was having trouble reading those signs – the change had been so gradual. But a trip to the eye doctor resulted and I became a four-eyes.
I was kind of excited. Beyond my ability to see distance again, I thought them made me look older and more sophisticated. It did not occur to me that it was hard for a third-grader to look sophisticated, but the mind can provide what the outer appearance does not.
Every two or three years I would go for an eye check, and each time my lens prescription got stronger. Was this because I was such a voracious reader? Was it genetic? Too much sitting close to a television? We will never know.
At some point early in my adult life it became a sort of party trick to demonstrate my nearly-supernatural displays of up-close vision. An example I remember was my ability to make out the microprinting on currency and checks that had been incorporated as anti-counterfeit measures. Yes, all I had to do was take off the glasses and I was practically a human microscope.
Friends and family members were heavy into contact lenses by the early 1990’s, but I had resisted the trend. I could only think of two situations where glasses were a problem. OK, three. First, I liked to work on my car, and heavy glasses sliding down the nose when it was covered in perspiration and my hands were greasy. The second was going out in the rain and getting raindrops all over my personal windshields. Finally was when I would go swimming – I could see everyone around me but unless I knew their size, shape and swimsuit color, I had trouble telling who those people might be.
I decided to give contacts a try. My doctor at the time offered a free trial period – which turned out to be a good thing. It was great to walk in the rain, and also to be able to wear drugstore sunglasses. But I quickly discovered the problem: I had never noticed how frequently I looked over my glasses at things up close. I tried to read a thermostat in a dim hallway – I was dismayed that such a thing was just not going to happen. A pair of drugstore readers fixed that problem, but hadn’t I tried contacts to get away from glasses? I went back to the old method where any need for close magnification was supplied by simply getting close and looking over the lenses.
A long-ago eye doctor told me I would someday reach the point where my prescription would start backing off instead of always getting stronger. I am definitely there. It is, however, still a strong prescription so maybe this is why I have so much trouble.
I remember one single time in my life when I tried on a new pair and they were – – – perfect. I mean perfect in the sense that I heard Angels sing when I slipped them on. This was why I vowed to go back to the same eye doctor and optometrist when it was time to replace them. I learned that perfection may just be a happy accident. That next pair never seemed quite right.
There are all kinds of variables – where do the optical centers of the lenses line up with your eyes. Is the prescription right or off just a touch. Are the glasses made precisely to the prescription or are they off a bit. Part of my problem with this new pair was that I waited something like eight years before replacing them. I had the nastiest headache for a few days before I went back. I had to go back because the reading portion of the bifocals was only useful about seven inches from my face. I can see without glasses at six inches from my face, so glasses that increased my reading distance by an inch hardly seemed worthwhile.
“Oh, then you want mid-range rather than reading range on your bifocals” said the optometrist with a little more attitude than I would have liked. I resisted the urge to respond that when I sit in a chair with a book on my lap I call it “reading” and not “mid-ranging”. The optometrist changed that part of the prescription, and tweaked the main part a bit as well. The re-made pair was much better. Until a couple of days ago when the screw that keeps the lens attached to the frame fell out on one side.
After about twenty minutes of trying to get it back in I gave up and went back to the large warehouse club chain which shall remain nameless here. Although it is the one with the reputation for fabulous customer service. I was more than a little churlish after a drive there where I alternated between no glasses at all and wearing them but with one eye closed. I suggested that the lens must not have been cut correctly if it could not be easily attached and tightened into the frame. This might also be why one of the screw heads was stripped out when I got them. After about thirty minutes (and two people at the optometry counter) the manager agreed with me.
The worst part is that Marianne went elsewhere to get her glasses earlier this year. “Good grief, woman” I exclaimed when I saw the price tag for the two pair she got. “I’m getting mine at [Insert name of warehouse club that maintains its own optical lab here]. Marianne has been getting quite a few chuckles at my expense. I did, however, get two pair of glasses at half of what she paid. At least I think I have, because I don’t have them both back yet.
I wonder if I will live long enough for my my distance vision to improve to normal. Yes, I will no longer be able to read things up close, but drugstore reading glasses are mighty cheap and available. It is a tradeoff I think I could make.
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Another timely entry, I just got done with cataract surgery on both eyes! I’d been wearing glasses since 4th grade, with one eye only focusing to about 4 inches, so think Coke bottle bottom on one side, and thinner lens on the other. My eyes got progressively worse, then in my 60s, got better, then foggy. What I didn’t know, is that now, when you get surgery, they make a tiny slit in your eye and put a lens in there, and basically correct your eyesight, as well as blast out the fog! I can now read the writing on the side of a Chinese spy balloon, but can’t read the label on the back of a package at the store! Your eyes work entirely different than they did for the last 50 years. I don’t need glasses for driving, etc., but have to walk around with readers around my neck. My one bad eye does need mild astigmatic correction, so I could use new glasses, and for the most part, those glasses will be “progressives” that are clear on the top, and then fade down to a +2.50 on the bottom. I’m doing this mostly because it’s easier to just keep glasses on, than walk around with readers I’m putting on and off all day. You can get cheapy progressives readers, but I might as well get the mild aberrations corrected in the one eye, as long as I have one pair a year on my Medicare provider.
Ditto, hated contacts, and as a photographer, didn’t want to jam stuff in my eye. Everyone I know with contacts is always having problems, so why bother. Ditto with you and the pricing! I’ve found out in the past, that you don’t want to go to the cheapest place, but my sister always goes to those places than sell you a pair of fashion frame glasses for 400 bucks, that 18 months later, look like your wearing a Nehru jacket, so….no.
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I remember my mother telling me about cataract surgery and how it completely changed her vision. That would take some getting used to – I would probably become one of those guys who has the reading glasses hanging low on the nose and looking over them most of the time. And I agree – it has been decades since I have bought a “high style” anything, for exactly the reason you lay out.
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As one who is needing new glasses, this is so spot-on.
For years I wore contacts with zero issues (outside of once getting a bad prescription). Then, suddenly one day in 2020, my eyes dug in their figurative heels and said “no more!”. The comfort factor evaporated. After 30+ years of wearing contacts, I transitioned to glasses. It has not been fun.
What you say about glasses is profoundly true although I must add to it. First, after going without glasses for so long, wearing glasses is like looking at life on a movie screen. Second, any useful peripheral vision is gone. Yes, it’s there, but not corrected as with contacts so movement can be somewhat detected and that’s about it. Third, glasses are like a black car – when they are clean they are great but it takes absolutely nothing to dirty them up. Thus, life is now like looking at a polka-dotted movie screen.
Like you my near vision is excellent. Being on the cusp of needing bifocals (as my optometrist has stated it for five years) I simply take my glasses off when working on things up close in lieu of having bifocals. In turn, I tend to forget where I have placed my glasses. A few years ago an acquaintance was about to scrap a ’64 and ’65 Galaxie he had on his place and encouraged me to come get some parts. It was a sorry sight when two grown men are spending way too much time looking for their misplaced glasses. Worse, when in stores, I have discovered I am now that guy who takes off his glasses and clamps the earpiece between his teeth when holding an item and reading the label.
Glasses are a basic core need for many but they are also insidious devices that are successful in adding a lot of angst to daily life. However, perhaps there should be happiness I still have teeth to clamp onto my glasses.
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I had never thought of lenses in glasses being like a black car in trying to keep them clean, but you are absolutely right!! I clean mine every morning, so I guess a black car would look good if I washed it every day. There is NOTHING worse than accidentally getting a greasy fingerprint on them at some point in the day. Keep your fingers far away from your classes when you are eating fried chicken, for example.
I went to bifocals a number of years ago, but have kept the old-school style with the hard on/off line. When working on cars or things where I am in tight quarters, I have aged to the point where I have to keep fiddling with my glasses so that I can focus on something, with the choices being regular, bifocal reading, over the lenses, or one of the first two after I slide the lenses farther from my eyes, which weakens the correction a bit. And always with greasy fingers, it seems.
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Also, several years ago I started wearing clip-on readers over my regular glasses at work because I couldn’t read my computer screen at my desk through either my distance lenses or the bifocal part. They look stupid but work really well – they are sort of like adding overdrive to your glasses, and turn a 2 speed into a 4 speed. 🙂
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I didn’t get glasses until 40 because I’m far sighted, I just had my eyes checked and my vision is still better than 20/20 at distance.
I wear progressive lenses, and it takes my brain a long time to get used to a new pair. When I originally got them I was startled because buildings in the street were curving to fall over on me! It took a few months of occasional use to really get comfortable with them, same with my current pair.
And having a good optometrist is essential, I once got a new pair that were terrible, the reading part of the lens was so far down I had to hold them up with my fingers to read anything.
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When the progressive bifocals came out, I stuck with the old-style one with the line. Because I do so much reading, I have preferred the on/off binary, which I think gives a wider viewing field. But after going so long without a change in prescription, I did indeed have some nasty headaches.
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I just got my new pair yesterday. I have bifocals and mainly need to bottom part to read the fine print. My wife takes her glasses off when she needs to see fine print, lol.
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It is a tremendous blessing to be able to read fine print just by looking over the lenses. My last few years with the old glasses had a terrible vision hole at the distance between my desk chair and my computer monitor at the office. I started out by wearing a pair of drugstore readers over my regular glasses, which looked completely stupid but it worked. (6 eyes?) Then I found some clip-on readers that worked like the old plastic clip-on sunglasses (that flip up when you don’t need them) and that is how I have worked for the last several years.
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I realized this spring that it had been many years since I got my eyes checked. I decided to go ‘whole hog’ and have the new prescription lens put in all my old frames – sunglasses, reading, computer, progressives and a single vision distance lens for night sky watching. After the first few pairs arrived I realized that my vision seemed worse than before. I went back to the optometrist and my eyes were retested by a different optometrist at that clinic. This optometrist used the ‘state of the art’ testing and then some ‘old school’ testing. When he was done, he said the new prescription had been wrong. They paid to fix the mistake.
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This was not the first time I had to have someone re-check a prescription. And I am amazed that you can find a place that will cut new lenses for existing frames. Everyone tells me they can’t do it, but maybe I don’t press hard enough. I am sure they make a long more selling new frames for each pair of lenses.
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I thought getting new glasses in old frames was just a normal service? Back in the hipster 80s. I knew some terminally fashionable types that bought industrial looking safety glasses at the resale store for a buck and had the local discount optical place just put their prescription in them. Those old safety glass frames were a lot better made than modern frames too….
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At age 18, I conquered my fear of inserting something on my eye by leveraging my vanity and the advantages in sports (hard to put swim and ski goggles over my glasses) to get hard contacts. Twenty years later my eyes were too dry for those hard contacts, so I went back to glasses. In my mid 40’s an optometrist in Wichita bullied me into at least trying soft contact lenses and what a difference that made! I have been wearing them for 30 years but now need readers for close reading.
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Geoff, as a long time swimmer, I used to have corrective swim goggles! Cheaper than you think…
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Yeah, I expect real swimmers and skiers have corrective goggles. I knew one swimmer who did. My problem is that I lose and break glasses (and goggles) all the time so I buy my readers and sunglasses by the dozen at the dollar store!
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Readers and sunglasses at the dollar store may be the biggest argument in favor of contacts. Unless you have a complete lack of personal pride and buy cheap sunglasses to wear over your regular glasses like I do. When people look at me funny, I shrug and say “crude, but effective”.
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On the other hand, bought 16 dollar readers at Target, and have been complimented on my “new glasses” more than a few times, so go figger…
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I really wanted to like those soft contacts, but the sticking-something-in-my-eye thing was a problem. Isn’t one of the first lessons we learn in life to not stick things in your eyes? I evidently learned that lesson really well.
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Not to mention, as a photographer, early days hard contacts were a huge no-no! You could not only scratch your eye fumbling around, but trap photo chem fumes between your eye and the contact. So never even considered them…
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I took after my father who had poor eyesight and got glasses on my 7th birthday. My mom never needed glasses until her 40s and then it was just for reading. I’m sure she’d have traded all her medical issues from the car accident at age 11 for wearing glasses. I wore contact lenses from 1974 to 2009 when I got laid off, then began working from home. I put vanity aside (and I was very vain) to return to glasses. I never had problems with contact lenses. I wore hard lenses, then gas permeable lens without issue and when I needed bifocals, I was fitted with “monovision” contacts – one contact lens for close-up and one for distance. It worked better than simply using readers when my arms were not long enough to see the face of my watch. 🙂
I can identify with this post … first, in August 2020 during the early part of the pandemic I went for my annual eye exam and got new glasses. I have two pair of glasses … heavier frames with polarizing lenses which I only wear outside and lightweight glasses, with a blue tint for computer use. I only get one pair of glasses each year and alternate which new prescription to fill. I’m outside less hours than inside in front of the computer. In 2020, the optical lab did some slipshod work – the right lens kept falling out of the frame. I’d put it back in, tighten the frame and it’d pop out again. I had to take it in and wait six or seven weeks for the repair. They conceded the optical department messed up because they were shorthanded due to Covid. It was almost time for the next eye exam.
Then, last year I got new outside glasses. I picked them up in late August, but put them aside as I had lots of things going on, the incessant generator breakdowns and the car in the shop. Finally, a few months later I put them on – I felt dizzy. I thought it was my imagination, so I waited ’til the weekend when I was not in front of a computer as long, put them on, blurry, gave me a headache. I’m convinced they gave me the wrong prescription. I’ll need to return them and will make a stink about it, though the fact that I waited so long, will not likely bode well for my defense.
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I probably ought to get a pair with that blue filter for computer work. And yes, they may give you trouble after waiting so long, but I hope you can get them replaced.
I have heard people talk about the contacts thing with distance in one eye and reading in the other, and have always wondered you you wouldn’t have a splitting headache all the time, but they say it works.
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I hope they don’t have an issue either. They don’t have an on-site optical department anymore since a new doc bought the practice after the former docs retired. I thought it was me at first but I never get headaches and felt dizzy. I am in front of a computer screen quite a few hours a day. I get to work at 11:30 a.m. and am online until 9:30- 10:00 p.m.
The monovision lenses worked well. I needed bifocals and the problem with bifocal contact lenses is they move around in your eye, so the lens could be sideways or upside down when you needed the bifocal. I had no trouble adjusting to monovision lenses. My contact lens practitioner first suggested the readers in various strengths and everything was too blurry to read/see.
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I got glasses at 14. Something about my prescription made me need glass lenses, so my glasses were heavy and left painful dents in my nose. I asked for contacts but my parents kept saying no. At 19 I had a good summer job, so I saved up, made an appointment with the optometrist, and bought contacts myself. I didn’t tell my parents, I just did it. That same prescription thing made me need gas perms, not soft lenses. For two weeks it felt like I had cinders in my eyes. I still wear gas perms, albeit only in my right eye as my left eye was hard to fit and didn’t need much correction anyway. I started to need readers five or six years ago. But only when I wear my conctact — when I wear my regular glasses, I just take them off to see up close. In the last few years it started to be hard to see the computer screen, so now I “trade” a little far vision for midrange near vision with my prescription. I got new glasses this year. My previous pair were from Costco, and they were fine, but the black finish was chipping off. This with ultra light wear since I’m in contacts 90% of the time. So this time I went to the most prominent local optometry shop and spent real money on glasses. They are terrific. I also used my prescription to buy a $35 pair from zenni.com, and they’re very good too.
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In doing some research after Marianne got hers, I learned that there is essentially one great big optical conglomerate that does lenses for virtually everyone – except Costco, which maintains its own lab. I guess sticking with Costco is my little way of stickin’ it to the Man. 🙂
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Oh yes, the Luxottica cabal. It’s one reason I was using Costco. I was sorely disappointed in the longevity of the last pair of glasses I got there, though.
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I visit an Opthamologist yearly for my eye check, as I was once on some meds that can cause macular nerve damage. I believe also that cataract surgery is in my future in a few years.
At one time he could also prescribe my glasses prescription, but Ontario does not allow that now, so I must go to an Optometrist. I have a good guy, right up the street from me, and I have gotten three Rxs from him, each one getting stronger than the last. I now for the first time must wear glasses to be legal to drive, although my license does not say so yet. I have progressive bifocals in both pairs that I have, one a bit stronger than the other. I went for the “learned gentleman” look, full black rims and all with my latest glasses. The look of wisdom, maybe, or really just look my age.
I used to visit said price warehouse, but now rely on the optometrist guy. He gives me a price reasonably comparable to said warehouse, and I can make an appointment instead of duking it out at the counter in the warehouse for who’s next debates.
I didn’t need glasses until age 21 or 22, when reading computer reports all day seemed to have caused my eyes to worsen. For years I only needed glasses for distance, and I do still use the computer with no vision aid. I also have astigmatism as does one if not both of my sons.
I never tried contacts, but both or my boys have worn them for year, but now have reverted back to glasses. One is considering laser surgery.
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Actually kind of a weird thing Lee, I would consider an ophthalmologist far more experienced than an optometrist is figuring out your eyes! Ive only gone to the latter in the past because our two-bit medical system in America won’t cover the former, but when I was a kid, my Dad wouldn’t even think of sending us to a optometrist, vs. an ophthalmologist! It’s a weird world….
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I am always amazed whenever I go to pick new frames. You would think that as many as everyone has on display, that you could have your pick of looks or styles. But no – it seems that there are a bazillion versions of the same thing. If a particular shape is in, you have to look really hard to find something else. I guess it’s their way of using trends to keep people changing.
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Reading all these entries, I’m amazed at all the bad glasses stories. I remember seeing a segment on 60 minutes now 30-35 years ago, where they took glass prescriptions to expensive places as well as cheap places and said the quality level was all the same! I don’t think it any great revelation that the expensive “Euro-Opteeks” place in your local fashion mall is there to sell you expensive frames, and it’s unlikely that they’re using a production facility any different than Joes Glasses and Dent Repair.
It’s when you have multiple problems, like astigmatism, in an eye, where your optician really has to be on point. Not only does your general prescription have to be correct, but the correction for aberrations have to be in the exact place to correspond to the deficiency in your eye! I have a fat head, and can tell you that even a good optical place might only have 4 or 5 frames that actually fit my head. Then when they do all that measuring, it’s because dependent on the frames, they center of my eye never hits the center of the lens, and may be more out towards the edge, so they have to make sure that is correct. Then in my one eye, the astigmatic correction has to be in the exact place to match the eye. It easy for all this to go wrong. I was told by an optician once, that they hated round glasses, since when mounting the lens, it could be just a fraction off and be wrong. There was no reference to the glass frame because the lens could just spin around. The center of your eye in the frame, was not in the center of the lens! That means no round glasses for me!
I had a pal that worked at a local high end optical place that made its own lenses. They started with blanks of the correct power, and then ground and polished in the variations and the correct spacing. He said even a cheap place that sends the glasses out, is supposed to have someone there checking all the prescriptions when they come in, against measurements. You should never show up to put on your glasses and have them be “wrong”, they should have already been checked. Our cheapening and non-service oriented world!
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Maybe my nearsightedness is why I favor contacts. I’ve had them since high school and can’t imagine going without. There’ll come a day when I can no longer wear them because of dry eyes (or so says my eye doctor). But that day hasn’t come yet so I will gladly put them in each morning and take them out each night, using reading glasses a good part of the day (and “computer glasses” when in front of the monitor). To add to your list of frustrations with wearing glasses – working out at the gym – but only because I’ve never tried to do so with glasses on.
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I like to think of the glasses as being a great incentive to stay away from hard workouts at the gym. 🙂
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Add this one to the endless list of excuses!
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I have a wonderful optometrist who is my age and I’m afraid he will soon retire. He brings interns into his practice, and despite booking my appointment with the optometrist I got stuck with the intern – he looked 20 and had a man-bun and seemed very unsure of himself. He put me in the room with the window (read glare despite the blinds being down) and decided after much testing that I needed to go up two levels with my glasses. He had the optometrist sign off on the prescription as he was not allowed to sign as an intern. Then I went home and thought about it – I thought I needed new glasses but to go up two levels and add in bifocals too – it didn’t make sense. So I dug out my old prescription and went back the next day to see the real optometrist and he rewrote the Rx and just took it up one level and scratched the bifocal part. The funny thing is I’m still wearing my old glasses from 3 years ago – so never needed an increase in the first place! What you say about reading vs mid-range is so true. I made that mistake once and now know to specify. I know absolutely no one who reads a book 6 inches from their face – most people have it in their lap. When I was working the dispensary counter was 16 inches away, (and the computer screen 13) so that always had to be mentioned too! I’m already worrying about glaucoma (my mother has it) as my ocular pressure was high last year, but in December it was back down again? Makes me wonder how precise that is measured too when half the time it’s the technician that takes it. As soon as they come near me with that hand held wand thing I flinch. Last time they had a new machine that measured differently but the technician said it wasn’t calibrated properly? The readings were all over the place. It does not exactly inspire confidence. I’m so squeamish about my eyes that if I have to have cataracts done some day I’ll have to be put out. It amazes me that some people have it done without even a sedative to relax/calm them down.
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Joni, having just had my cataracts done, and being super squeamish about my eyes, since I totally relied on them for my living, I can say that it’s a walk in the park. BTW, they do give you a slight sedative because they don’t want you jerking around on the table, but it’s not like you even feel sedated? I told the doctor that it seemed so simple, I can imagine a future where they’re just driving around to your house and doing it in a tricked out van! It was a two hour process, mostly waiting around, the actual operation takes about 20 minutes. Of course, your mileage may vary, and I don’t know where you live, but I live in a fairly big city with many options, and I went with a person recommended by my primary physician, and called around to people I know that had it done for recommendations. I will say this, they sort of want you to get them both in short order, but I was unmoved. Again, as a guy who spent years taking pictures and dependent on my eyes, I had my worst eye done first, and waited until the whole process was over, including the month long process of eye drops post op. Altho my eye was pretty perfect immediately after the operation, I still wanted to wait 4-6 weeks after to get the next one. Everything turned out OK for me, but after having my eyes be a certain way since 4th grade, it was weird having them entirely different after 60 years, in just one day!
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Thanks Andy for the reassurance. I have heard it’s not that bad, but for me it would be as I don’t do well with any medical procedure. I would be in the 3% where something goes wrong. We don’t have as much choice here and fairly long waiting lists. Most people I know travel to Windsor or London. Did you get the regular lens or special lens with Lasik surgery after? I remember my mother being handed a booklet with a page of choices, but her eye specialist suggested just the regular ones, of course that was 7 years ago. I have two friends who opted for the Lasik surgery after and both still need reading glasses, so I’m not sure why they paid the extra money, but it was a sales pitch I guess?
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Joni, they offered me a special lens for the one eye that would correct my astigmatism, but it was 1400 USD out of pocket, as Medicare just covers the basic procedure. I said no…i will say, that my “bad” eye, with the standard lens, is still sharp in the center, Just not so much around the edges, I can have that fixed with the progressives I still need to get so that I’m not taking off and putting on glasses all day. My “good” eye is fine all over, with the standard lens inserted, just need the readers. I can tell you my procedure turned out so OK, that if I had the 1400 bucks, I would have done it…
I don’t really know why anyone needed LASIK, once you get your cataracts done and the correct lens inserted, that would be it!
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I have become a roving nomad with ophthalmologists and optometrists. Each time I get in with one, they move or retire or something else. The last actual ophthalmologist was an office where I didn’t feel well taken care of, and had to come back for a Rx recheck, so I didn’t go back there this time. Fortunately, I have never had real eye issues other than vision that needs correction. I wasn’t crazy about the optometrist at the place I went, and felt that she was a little rushed, and then wasn’t that responsive when I had concerns. At least the experience forced me to understand what all of those numbers measure and how they interact so that I could be ready to ask some pointed questions. If you can only ask “why aren’t these clear” you get “you just need to get used to them”.
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I always take my prescription with me so I can compare if they change it. My optometrist was a year behind me in pharmacy school, but after he graduated he worked for a year or two, and must have decided it wasn’t for him and went back to become an optometrist, another 4 years of school. He’s great, a very calming and kind person, never rushes anyone, has a ton of expensive state of the art testing equipment he doesn’t always charge for. I dread the day he retires and a chain takes over as he tells me that’s what usually happens now, and it will all go downhill from there. The interns now are a different story. I don’t need bifocals yet, but they tell me everyone over the age of 60 has small cataracts. I hope they stay small for awhile….I can already tell I have difficulty reading outdoors, and my eyes are dryer than they used to be, plus the whole “glaucoma suspect” thing due to family history of. It pays to be informed and do your own research. My intra-ocular eye pressure tends to runs at the high end of normal as my optic nerve is bigger than normal and my corneas are thicker. I actually had to tell one of the interns that…..these are 4th year students…..makes me wonder what they learn. But then there is a world of difference between book learning and the real world.
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