Whee! I have glasses! (Again. I've had them since 3rd grade, but it's been about 18 years since the last pair.) Things in the distance look crisp and clear again. Things up close look twisted and distorted but that's a combination of 1) my brain learning how to 'see' with both eyes again and 2) the vagaries of age and nearsightedness.

Because of the way my eyes (one very nearsighted and one only needing slight correction) I've had "built-in" bifocals for years. My brain used one eye for distance sight, and one eye for reading. This has worked beautifully up until recently, when the 'reading' eye has started to slip into near-sightedness itself, and the 'long-distance' eye is getting fuzzy as well.

A couple of years ago I tried getting prescription reading glasses, and that didn't wind up working well. (See previous note about eyes not knowing how to work well together.) Ultimately, I resorted to the over-the-counter drugstore glasses for reading and that has done just fine. Until recently.

I found that with my 'good' eye starting to fade, I wanted glasses again to correct my distance vision, and after a journey that has taken two months(!) to complete, I have them. It's lovely.

The interesting twist to the story is that my generic reading glasses work beautifully with the new distance glasses.... except that they're both in 'glasses' form. I'm wearing two frames even as I type this. This is a classic 'engineering' look, but probably will not play well in the classroom. Looks like contacts are in my not-too-distant future.