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So*, last night I handed my husband my glasses to put on the dresser at the end of the bed where they always go, right by the remote controls and the phone, as I always do. This morning, I get up, they're not there! Nor are they anywhere where they are likely to have fallen from there-- at least that I can see (or rather, feel.) This is all made worse by the fact that I am looking for them witihout my glasses on; I'm pretty much unable to see clearly anything further than four inches from my face.
On top of this, I haven't had a call from my husband (he usually calls about ten minutes ago, on his lunch break), and I can't see to find my cell (which apparently got moved from where I put it last) so I can call KPC at work to ask if he knows where they are (for some reason our phone says his work is long distance, even though we're in the same area code. Grrr. So I have to call on my cell because we don't have long distance on our home phone.)
AAAAAAAGH!
(Please excuse any typos in this post. I'm touch-typing blind and haveing difficulty seeing to spell-check.)
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The exact same thing happened to me yesterday! I woke up and couldn't find my glasses anywhere! They ended up somehow under a piece of furniture, but I never would have found them except that I put a contact lens in and started looking around with one eye (I'm having eye allergy problems and can't really wear my lenses).
*hugs* I'm sure they'll turn up.
Can you call your cell phone from the house phone?
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I hate losing my glasses. I can't see the floor, and when I'm looking there's always this nagging voice that says "Put on your glasses! You can't see a thing!" Not fun.
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I feel your pain! I don't think I'm quite that blind, but finding my glasses is always a chore when they're not where they should be.
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Do you still have your cats, KQ? My cat is always knocking items off during the night, then batting them across the room while playing nocturnally...
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He wouldn't do that. He knows how blind I am wihtout them. And he swears he put them in the normal place.
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Last week my cat snuck my glasses off the dresser. I had to dig out my old, old, old pair that I keep around for emergencies to find them after realizing I couldn't find them without help. But it did work. Silly cat.
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Yesterday I was out hiking and when I went to swat a mosquito away from my ear, I knocked my glasses clear into the underbrush. I looked really leader-like, standing there asking for my friends to dig around and find me my glasses.
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At least your glass lense didn't fall off in the pouring rain causing you to be screaming and crying so much trying to look for the thing the cops came. They could have at least given me a ride home. I hope you find them. I cannot see at all without specs.
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Just remembered, one time I actually knocked my glasses off my face with a finger WHILE DRIVING down the highway. Dont ask me how I managed that. The sunlight shone on it as it spun in the air and I grabbed at the light and put them back on. Must have had a very good guardian angel that day.
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quote:Originally posted by Theca: Last week my cat snuck my glasses off the dresser. I had to dig out my old, old, old pair that I keep around for emergencies to find them after realizing I couldn't find them without help. But it did work. Silly cat.
Yeah, I don't know what happened to my emergency backup pair.
I had to wait. KPC came home and found them, after much searching. Apparently either he missed or they slid down last night, and then when I got up and felt around for them I must have knocked things on top of them when I knocked the box fan over. I have them now, and my head feels somewhat better, my eyes feel MUCH better, and I'm sooo glad I live in an age where we have glasses!
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Yeah, my mom is pushing me to buy a new pair of frames and new lenses, since my vision has changed a bit, and then use THESE as backup. But I'm not ready to spend the money or pick out a new pair yet. I can still well enough. It's also hard to pick out new frames when you can't see your face with your glasses off!
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I was mugged once in Chicago and my glasses fell off my face when the guy knocked me down and hit me (or kicked me) in the face. I was totally freaked - not just the theft and assault - but because I couldn't see. I just stood there screaming "somebody help me" at the top of my lungs. People came and found my glasses and flagged down a cop car.
I totally know how it feels to be so dependent on glasses and how vulnerable you can feel without them (and blind, of course).
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Yes--I don't wear contacts so me trying on frames is always kinda funny. When I get close enough to the mirror to really see myself, it's not exactly a good view of what the glasses look like on me! But I take comfort in the fact that there are a lot of other nearsighted people in the same boat, so I probably don't look much more ridiculous than the next person.
Kq, you know that if you get dizzy or headaches you need to go have your frames adjusted, right? Seems like that happens to me when I drop stuff on mine . . . I've never had dire consequences but I've heard of people getting sick. I can usually manage to adjust my own, but when I'm not lazy I'll go have an optometrist do it.
Anyway -- glad you have them back!
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I just got new glasses and I have to put a vote in for the frameless glasses. They really do disappear on your face and are so comfortable to wear. Love them!
Glad you found yours kq! Nothing worse than not being able to see when you know you *could.
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I get headaches when I go from wearing contacts a lot to wearing glasses, which is unfortunate because I mostly only do that when my eyes are being allergic to something. So I'll have itchy, hurty, watery eyes and a headache. But I have really bad vision as well; I can't see anything beyond six inches in front of my face clearly without lenses.
But contacts means I could pick out a new frame without too-too much trouble. I would've loved frameless glasses, but my prescription is so strong that...well, it would not have been attractive. Even with the high tech enchanted magical ultrathin ultralight mega deluxe lenses, they still stick out a lot behond my metal frames.
I'm really liking the new contacts, though. I hope they're not what I'm allergic to. It's probably the new solution the doctor had me switch to. Although I can wear them all day after I've left them out a day, and they'll be fine. I'm just going to try taking them out at night for a few days and see if that helps.
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I'm constantly amazed by how productive people were in the times before glasses. You have to consider that a whole lot of them couldn't really see much.
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I suppose that was offset by not hanging out on the internet all day, don't you think, Chanie? *grin*
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