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.)
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
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?
-pH
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My daughter's napping, or I would.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
(Of course, if she awoke I could tell her to find Mommy's glasses. Maybe I should.)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
The two-year-old can't find my glasses, either.
I did find my cell, though.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:for some reason our phone says his work is long distance, even though we're in the same area code.
Being in the same are code doesn't mean that it's a local call.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
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.
Good luck finding them.
--j_k
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
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.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
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...
FG
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Our cats don't come in our room at night.
Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :
If I'm not wearing my glasses, everything further than eight inches away is blury.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Maybe KPC is goofing with you. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
He wouldn't do that. He knows how blind I am wihtout them. And he swears he put them in the normal place.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Your touch-typing is impressively accurate, though.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
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.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Wow, your eyes sound about as bad as mine.
You have my sympathy.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
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.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
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.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
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.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
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!
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
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!
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
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).
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
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!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I had a headache because I'd been wearing no glasses all day.
But yeah, I need to go in for a checkup and probably a new pair anyway.
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
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.
edit to put the e in frameless.
[ August 08, 2006, 07:52 AM: Message edited by: sweetbaboo ]
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
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.
-pH
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I think I need to get my eyes tested. I think the lenses are too strong again.
Glad you got your glasses, kq. Posted by Chanie (Member # 9544) on :
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.
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
I suppose that was offset by not hanging out on the internet all day, don't you think, Chanie? *grin*
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