ObsessiveJew.com » Eyesight http://obsessivejew.com/blog The place to Kvetch! Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:04:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Arms Too Short to Read the Box http://obsessivejew.com/blog/2009/01/13/arms-too-short-to-read-the-box/ http://obsessivejew.com/blog/2009/01/13/arms-too-short-to-read-the-box/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:48:24 +0000 Alan http://obsessivejew.com/blog/?p=526 This is bad. I’m getting to the point where I have to ask my partner to read me the directions on the antacid and allergy medications I routinely take because I can no longer read, or even see the small print on the boxes and bottles.

Menus are becoming difficult as well. And, that can be life threatening. Should I order the wrong meal, then experience digestive tract issues (when don’t I experience digestive tract issues?) and then I can’t read the bottle of Pepto Bismol I’m likely to take not enough of the pink-tasting miracle (not a huge problem). Worse — god forbid — is if, due to my increasingly poor vision, I take too much. Who knows what can happen. I really don’t want to overdose on Pepto. It could be an intestinal disaster! And extremely embarrassing to boot!

They call what I have farsightedness (I don’t really understand that since it means that things close to your eyes become blurry) and there is no cure. There are no pills to take to reverse the affect. All these years taking antibiotics, allergy pills and stomach medicine and there’s no pill for this? How can there be no pills?

Apparently, not even the modern miracle of LASIK can help. LASIK is only effective for nearsightedness (only being able to see close to the eyes) and it doesn’t reverse diminishing eyesight due to age. So, I’m screwed.

Time for a new set of reading glasses.

Now, Fox Television’s “Family Guy” Peter Griffin take on getting LASIK, from a Jew no less (Click the image to Play):

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