I just had my second DUH moment of the day.
When I don’t leave the house all day, I rarely bother to wear my contact lenses. Instead I just work with my ratty old glasses which are not fashionable, but are functional. For years and years and years they have provided the best close-up vision quality for beading.
Plus, if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll remember about a 18 months or so ago when I finally figured out that I needed to start using reading glasses in addition to my contacts to be able to bead or see my student’s beadwork up close in class. Bummer, getting old. And I figured if I was going to have to wear glasses anyway, I might as well wear the pair that gets me through the day. Because I’m lazy too.
Well I’ve been in a flurry of beading the last two days and it was all done with the contacts/reading glasses combo. When I just took out my contacts and reverted to my regular glasses I had an ephiphany. I CAN’T SEE! I tried to go back to beading and all of a sudden my focal point was dramatically changed and I’ve had to put the beadwork aside again because it was far too difficult.
So I wonder if this visual deterioration has been an unrecongnized reason for my lack of beading time??!! You would think I learned my lesson about this when I went through it with the reading glasses, but nope. Evidentally I’m not a quick learner.
Guess who’s going to the eye doctor for a new prescription REALLY SOON??
I relay this story to remind you that perhaps you should make an appointment soon too if you’re having trouble with focus. We don’t need to suffer it when there’s correction available.