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Hello all!

I'm new to the forum, having finally registered after a couple months of lurking...I'm a nursing student in Texas, having returned to school for my BSN after 20 years as a graphic artist and raising a family among a bunch of other stuff. I love reading your posts and am excited that one day I will know all this stuff!!

Anyway, my query is this...at the ripe "old" age of 46 my eyes are not what they used to be and my arms are not long enought to read the fine print, as they say, (hey, age happens!!!) I wear contact lenses for distance, and have adopted reading glasses when needed. (Actually I went out and bought the prettiest ones I could find with a pretty jeweled chain...If I have to use them they are going to be pretty!!)

My concern is when I get on the floor and start dealing with patients, what do I do with my glasses? I can see them hanging around my neck getting in the way, tangling in the stethescope or falling off of my head at the most inopportune time. Putting them in a pocket and pulling them out again could be a pain...so what do you do? I've considered bifocals, but don't really want to go back to wearing glasses all the time. They also have bifocal contact lenses, but all I've heard and read say they take alot of getting used to. Weird question, huh? But it's been buggin' me so I thought I'd ask the experts...

Thanks for being there and I'm sure that this is the first in a long line of questions that you will hear from me!!!

Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Med-Surg.

My vote is to wear progressive lenses ALL THE TIME. That way you don't have to worry about losing or misplacing them or having them dangle from your stethescope at inopportune times. They have prevented my getting many liquid surprises splashed in my eyes over the years.

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I am with sjoe... I lost two pair of glasses my first year...

I now wear tri-focals.. yes indeed. I also have reading glasses when I need to sit and read for a while.

Also... make sure you clean your glasses regularly... it is amazing what can build up over the day!

There are VERY pretty tri-focals that are completely invisible graduated lenses that took just a a couple of weeks to get used to.

and.. welcome!

B.

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Specializes in ICU/CCU (PCCN); Heme/Onc/BMT.

. . . glasses!:o Everything seems more blurry than they used to be. . . I have to squint to read the small type found in many drug books. . . I basically have to squint to see, period.

If or when I get glasses, I hope they don't fall down into poop filled bedpans that I frequently empty. :eek: (Heaven knows I've lost many-a-pen to the "stinky-brown-trap"! :eek: )

I'm scared. I'm really scared! :o

Happy eye-sight to all! (Whether you wear glasses or not!) :)

Ted

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Now Ted... that is why they have such a funny shape on each end.. to hold onto your ears! teehehehe

You turning 40 something on us dear? Oh my that is another thread... never mind... tehehehhe

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Specializes in ICU/CCU (PCCN); Heme/Onc/BMT.
Originally posted by nightngale1998

Now Ted... that is why they have such a funny shape on each end.. to hold onto your ears! teehehehe

You turning 40 something on us dear? Oh my that is another thread... never mind... tehehehhe

:chuckle :roll :chuckle

Hi nightngale1998!!! :D

I'm just getting in a few goofy posts before I go to bed after a long night's work! :)

Hope all is well!

Ted :)

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I wore bifocals for several years, but when I went to the cath lab and started doing more computer work, I discoved monovision contact lenses. I see distance with one eye and read with the other ......It is the BEST!!!! I love them.

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Specializes in correctional, psych, ICU, CCU, ER.

get the cheep drugstore ones (several pair) one in the locker, one in the car, one at the head of my bed, one near my recliner, and one in a hard case in my pocket.

Some of them actually get on my nose.

:chuckle :roll :roll :chuckle

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I have the monovision contacts also, and I love them! I was told I would need a little time to adjust to them, but I had no trouble at all. I like putting them in in the morning, and not worrying about seeing or fumbling with glasses the rest of the day. Try them, you'll love them!

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Monovision contacts for me. Another tip is to have your back-up glasses set up the same way; one eye distance-one eye close up. That way your brain is always acclimated to the same range of vision.

Remember when you used to take your glasses off and put on your contacts? It always seemed to me that vision was better with my contacts. Now that I am accustomed to this monovision stuff; either of the corrective methods works equally as well as the other.

I am an old (52) student and have not had to draw bloods or start an IV. Maybe I will feel differently about my quality of vision when those tasks confront me. But I am just too scared to try the LASIK stuff. Oooooo, cutting on an eyeball, YUK!

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Ted

Make sure you get the good frames that have hidden springs where the eye pieces meet the lens frame. I've not had my glasses slip down my nose or swing back and forth when I bend over to empty urine bags, etc. Previous types of frames were always a great problem with keeping the eyeglasses where they are suppose to be.

Grace

I agree with you about the graduated lens they're great for everday seeing. I, too, have to take my glasses off to read in bed but because I am so nearsighted the reading glasses don't help. I have to read with the reading material just inches from my nose.

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