Nearsighted since age 6, I have a habit of holding things close to my face. I’ve had progressive everyday glasses for several years now as well as dedicated reading glasses. Before I got progressive lenses I used to take my glasses off to read the news on my small iPhone (my 13 mini may be the last iPhone I buy, because nothing bigger would fit in my left front pocket, even if I got rid of my cloth handkerchief).
My optometrist calls me an amateur, even though I have diagnosed my own vitreous detachment and many patients’ ocular emergencies, like acute angle closure glaucoma and dug out countless corneal foreign bodies with an 18 gauge needle. He said that my presbyopia shouldn’t get worse after 65. It is still getting worse in my early 70s. That means I’m now starting to take my reading glasses off and bringing my iPhone to my uncorrected focal distance, which is 5 finger breadths from my eyeballs.
But just a few moments ago, I checked the time on my Timex Expedition watch and realized that if I hold it 18” away, I see it super well and I can even read the tiny word Timex above Expedition. So technically I can still read emails, The New York Times and all my other news sites with my old reading glasses without getting new ones. I just have this one bad habit of wanting to read up close, closer than other people.
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