The middle aged thread

I had Covid in one arm, Flu in the other yesterday, on the way back from doing a weights class at the gym, with a white wine hangover. EVERYTHING HURTS including my head

I did the double whammy last year and it wasn’t brilliant tbh

Ouch. I did the double last year and seem to recall an overnight mild fever and achey arms. There's absolutely no reaction where the injection was for me, just everywhere else. I seem to be pretty much over it but it has taken 2 days, surprisingly. I'll book COVID booster soon...
Hope you are recovered soon too!

Like Varifocals, but you put the lens in your eye rather than in a frame in front of your eye.

Not to be a nit, but not really always true. Often there is a power gradient with near vision in the middle. When you try to look up close, your pupil get smaller and you isolate the near power.

Others have alternating concentric rings of near and distance power, which is less clever, but also effective and get more near out of it usually. The drawback is halos around lights especially at night.

Generally they are all non-ideal and a compromise.

When you are old everything seems to be a compromise- I had contact lenses previously that corrected my myopia and astigmatism, but in the last few years I had to start wearing reading glasses at the same time.

I have some varifocal glasses but they’re actually very similar to the multifocal contacts in terms of performance- better on the right eye, the astigmatism in which means there is no multifocal option, but I just woke up and could instantly see things this morning, so- you have to balance things.

My distance vision (established via “those leaves look at bit indistinct” on my run yesterday is definitely less sharp, but I could read the screen of my running watch again- so this (for running) is a good compromise and what I wanted.

I’ll go mountain biking tomorrow and sailing on Wednesday and will see- sailing might be the problem as I need to be able to spot buoys a long way away for navigation.

Mountain biking is middle distance work so I think that will be better with these test lenses as I will be able to see the suspension controls clearly again.

I wear just one of my contact lenses - this is a great hack. You can read, and you can see far away things too. Your brain apparently sorts it all out. (Also half price compared with wearing two). I honestly suggest giving it a go. It works.

So I'm amongst a bunch of senior citizens or the imuno compromised with so many people getting the COVID jabs. Or is it advisable for all now?

Are you supposed to wait a bit between jabs, (so the 5g tracking chips don't interfere with each other of course) or do both and let you immune system sort itself out. Does having the two jabs together counter act the DNA modification so I have to expose myself to radiation to become Spiderman or the hulk.

6G is still a way off and with the bulk of patents being filed in China I’d stick with the Covid jab for now. Better the devil you know 👍

I wear just one of my contact lenses

Don't you lose all depth perception doing this?

I occasionally vape some weed for a similar effect 😝

Don't you lose all depth perception doing this?

No, if you've had stereoscopic vision in the past then your brain can always do depth perception, even if you lose one eye completely*. The vision in my right eye is dreadful due to keratoconus but I don't have any problem with depth perception.

Depth perception is only a problem for people who've never had stereoscopic vision.

* An old colleague of mine lost an eye at 12 or so. He's able to drive without a problem.

Did he try to sneeze with his eyes open? Is that how he lost his eye? I heard in the playground if you sneeze with your eyes open your eyeballs will pop out.

Interesting, I wonder how long the adjustment takes. I know when I only have one contact lens in I definitely have a trouble with depth perception, even after a couple of hours.

That's only if you've had your stomach pumped.

He unscrewed his belly button and his bottom fell off.

In reality he was walking behind someone down a country path, they bent a branch out of the way to get past and when they let go it whipped back. Oof.

Anyone else really fancy a shish kebab?

Always.

But the chicken doner at my local place is the best.

Do we still call them kitbags ?

Proper Turkish, cooked over charcoal?

Always

Always

This

Memories of Dalston… nice!

Interesting, I wonder how long the adjustment takes. I know when I only have one contact lens in I definitely have a trouble with depth perception, even after a couple of hours.

Depends on your refraction.

If you're a spherical -2.00 then yes, a lens in one eye gives you tolerable "mono vision".

If you're a spherical -4.00 then a lens in one eye will be a disaster. these folks will need a -4.00 lens in one eye and a -2.00 lens in the other. (Or something to that extent)

Also depends on how much astigmatism you have which could need correction.

Bottom line is that having a reasonable amount of residual myopia in one eye can be a solution to the problem of presbyopia.

It's good idea, if you wear contact lenses, to start dosing this once you are relying on reading glasses, because then you're set up to permanently - and confidently - carry this out when the time comes for cataract surgery.

Yes there are presbyopia reducing cataract lenses, but they are non-ideal and getting to know what works for you early on is really smart.

Generally you put the near vision in the non-dominant eye.

Did he try to sneeze with his eyes open? Is that how he lost his eye? I heard in the playground if you sneeze with your eyes open your eyeballs will pop out.

Good excuse to post this, which I love.

I'm -6 so that probably explains that.