My first reading glasses I purchased at a drug store in Hagerstown for $2.50. They have worked well. I still carry them in the truck for when I am using maps, which are devilishly difficult to read. I purchased them when my first cataract was removed. After the surgery was done in both eyes, my vision was 20/20 and I could adjust for reading too so for the first time since I was 7 years old, I needed no glasses, except for reading the maps. Such a wonderful world to not need glasses.
In the middle of the night after my first bout of infusion chemotherapy, the large blue painting adjacent to our bed looked blurred. I knew that something was happening to my eyes. Several months later I was seeing 20/60 so needed glasses and have used them ever since. And I must wear reading glasses. I placed drug store glasses beside every chair but I still can not read properly. This week I saw the eye doctor. He has no idea why my eyes are changing but this time I needed to get stronger distance glasses and I was forced to get prescription reading glasses because the eyes are different. The cheap glasses will not work. I am pleased. I will once again be able to read signs and to read books and magazines comfortably.
When I was growing up, the eye doctors all told me that when I stopped growing my eyes would stop getting worse. They were wrong. When I got older, my vision started to get better, until now. Now I am taking no chemotherapy so perhaps my eyes will become stable. We are going to see. At the moment, I am happy as I can see and I can read with the help of my new glasses.
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