Looking Older

There's always a cost for being smug and it looks like I just might have to pay it in the near future.

Just a few weeks ago, I was in for my annual eye check up. We decided I could make the switch over to contacts and avoid bifocals for at least another year.

It was the bifocals that made me smug. I even bragged about it to my Sassy Nephew.

Well, today was the post fitting check up for the trial pair of contacts. I've been having a few issues with them, but I thought nothing to major. We did a little vision check.

Ahem.

That's when I got a little explaination from my Dr. It seems as though he had given me less than my normal distance vision in the contacts in the hopes that I'd be able to see well enough far away and still read at the same time.

That was the hope.

Thing is, I'm not seeing all that great at far distance and not so good for reading either.

Now, I'm a driving and reading sort of Mama, so this is not going to work.

We're going to "adjust" the prescription again, but if that doesn't do it, we'll be looking at the bifocals.

Bifocals.

Well, I guess at least, they won't be in the silver frames that my kids say make my gray hair so much worse. When I was 16, it was great to look a bit older than my years, now at just under 40, it's not nearly as cool.