Eye wear

[Quillback]

Cataracts are starting on me too.  Just a matter of time before I get the replacement eyes.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

4 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Cataracts are starting on me too.  Just a matter of time before I get the replacement eyes.  

Mine had just started and I could have waited years for them to get bad enough for insurance to cover them but I went ahead and paid.  Totally worth it.  I wore sunglasses inside at night after the first eye because the lights were so bright.  It was like I was living in candle light.  My wife just got her first eye done two weeks ago.  Not cheap but like @Dutch said it saves money on glasses over and over again.  I can see to tie on the lure and see the lure flying through the air.  Couldn't do either before the surgery without bifocals.

[Quillback]

I start Medicare later this year (I can't believe I am saying that, I got old fast!), and they'll cover at least some of it, so I'll wait until then at least.   I have noticed tying on lures is a little more difficult, but I can still see them when I cast them.

 

[jdmidwest]

Choked up motor on a river in TN this weekend.  Floated into a sweeper with the 17' jet boat out of control.  Limb loaded up and unloaded on my cheek.  Knocked one lens out of my prescription eyewear.

I learned my eyes were better than I thought without my nearsighted eyewear.  Drove back with no issues.  Almost lost an eye.  Blood spotted the white pretty bad.  Knocked me pretty hard.

Radiation jacked with my vision and I had not been in for a visit for 5 years waiting for things to equalize.  Monday visit showed my vision has improved.  Age has reshaped my cornea to the better, my prescription was less than previous, a surprise.

I have always used glass lens with Photogrey tint.  Glass has the best optical clarity and is more scratch resistant.  I work outside and fish/hunt.  I can wipe mud and sand off the lenses and not really worry about the scratches.

I am married to the Wally World Family, my Discount gave me a new pair and exam for less than $300.  Just have a 12 day wait.  I repaired and updated frames on some old lenses that I had retired as damaged to get by.  Spent another $30 on that and now have a Amber pair of sunglasses again and a semi functional pair of normal photogrey. 

[Al Agnew]

13 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

FIFY😂

Good point...I should have said that so far my eyes still allow me to see very well with whatever corrections I have.  I've been told that cataracts are down the road a bit.  I can still remember getting my first pair of glasses...it was in 1964; I was 12 years old.  What convinced my parents to get me to an eye doctor was that I was complaining that I couldn't watch the World Series (with the Cardinals in it) on the TV that was up on the stage of the auditorium at my school...yes, my junior high teachers could opt to let us out of class during the games to watch them in the auditorium.  I can still remember being amazed that with my new glasses I could see individual leaves on the trees.

[Terrierman]

Somebody stole my amber Costa's on Saturday.   Left them sitting by my tacklebox on the dock while we went out to bait the juglines.  When we got back my box was still there but the glasses were gone.

Can't deal with no amber glasses so got a pair of Maui Jims to replace the gone pair.  Not cheap but very nice.   Actually fit better. 

Hate a thief.  Nobody needs a pair of sunglasses bad enough to steal them off a dock.