Well, I thought it was about time! It was at least 4 years since I had my eyes tested and although I kept talking about it, somehow it never happened. On mentioning it to a friend she “encouraged” me to get on with it, but then I had unintentionally given her the impression that my eyesight was worse than it is.
So down to the optician and made an appointment, which I kept! On turning up, after the initial taking details and horrible tests (like the ones where they photograph the retina and blow a puff of air into ones eyes) the eye-test proper was done by a lady from our church. I didn’t even know that was her job! She seemed to do the test competently and wrote out the prescription and passed me on to someone else to help me choose frames and then get the relevant measurements done. An appointment was made to pick up the new ones in 2 weeks. I had to pay, of course and chose to pay it all rather than just a deposit , saves time.
I picked up the new glasses 2 weeks later and had them adjusted. I then went back in each of the next 2 days to have minor adjustments so that they were comfortable.
The interesting point was that no-one noticed I had new glasses until I pointed them out! OK, so they are quite similar, but one would have expected some people to notice. I have decided it is (might be?) because of the “change blindness” I am learning about in my most recent MOOC. This is when people don’t notice a change e.g. people who are similar but not the same, for witnesses to a crime (the subject of the MOOC). The example they gave was one similar to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSxSQsspiQ
Would you have noticed the change?
So are the new glasses a good thing? I certainly hope so, for the amount they cost! I can see, so that must be OK.