I'm fortunate that I still read the bottom line on the eye chart every other year when I get a physical to renew my CDL medical certificate.
But about 15 years ago while rebuilding a carburetor I was trying to read the numbers stamped on the jets. For some odd reason I found my arms weren't long enough anymore, and even if they were, at that distance the small stuff can't really be read anyway. I added an illuminated magnifier to my toolbox.
Over time my close up vision degraded to the point where the magnifier wasn't convenient enough.
So I picked up some of those cheap reading glasses at the five and dime.
Now I have a pair in each of my cars, my pickup, my truck, my toolbox in the shop, next to the computer at my desk, a pair that I carry with me everywhere, and a backup pair somewhere.
I even have safety glasses with the cheaters built into them.
If I suddenly find myself without my readers I am blind closeup. Everything is blurry.
And lately I find that in a darkened room everything is blurry. So I asked the ophthalmologist during a checkup what he could do. Now I have a "prescription" set of glasses for watching TV in the evening, and they have the bifocals built into them.
They also work well when using the camera gear, the combination of the light prescription and bifocal helps me to focus, and move from looking at the close up things to the near distant stuff easily and quickly. I still find the need to either look over the top of them or remove them while outside in the daylight.
And when doing closeup detail work I am now finding the need for the jeweler's magnifiers.
Getting old can suck if you let it get to you.
Or you simply adapt and keep on doing what you love to do.
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