Snowmelt and bifocals

[mariness]

Two bits of news:

1. As part of their celebration of National Poetry Month, Tor.com has reprinted Snowmelt. I still love this poem.

2. I've picked up the bifocals. I fear these are not going to work out. What neither the eye doctor nor I considered is that since moving my head can induce dizziness or vertigo, I've been instinctively doing less of that over the past four years, moving my eyes instead -- which with the bifocals induces dizziness and vertigo. You can see the problem. I will keep trying for a few more days, but I fear I'm about to head back and just get the regular prescription and carry reading glasses around.

The sunglasses, though, are excellent.

In related news I am developing an extremely bad headache, so, later.

Comments

[brigid]

My mom, who has no dizzy-related illnesses, was never able to adjust to her bifocals (I don't know what the big problem was but I think she had a lot of headaches??) and wound up getting eye surgery to correct her near sightedness and astigmatism, then using reading glasses (she has a pair in every room of the house, in her purse, and in both my parents' cars).

Hope your headache improves very quickly.