Category: How I’m Adapting

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But stronger glasses will help though won’t they?

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Photograph of a pair of large rimmed tortoiseshell coloured glasses
But stronger glasses will help won’t they?
I love my reading glasses.
Panic if I can’t find them.
Not because they are especially fantastic or designer or anything like that. But they enhance and help my little eyes work things out and see better. At some point they won\’t. Until that point, I will make use of them best I can. So at the moment, it\’s all good ☺
They won’t repair and fill in the tiny blind spot that I have. Or will make any floaters that turn up temporarily, disappear.
But they do help so far.
It’s not just blurriness either, there is a double vision sometimes. Usually at the end of these day or through stress and tiredness.
People with the condition like me will have to study the words. I find it easier reading online as you can adjust the size of the font and zoom in.
Seeing pictures of a similar colour is hard. Every picture you show me has to be zoomed in so I can study it. Really detailed pictures take a bit of time to understand what’s happening. I may even ask you what it is so I can ‘see’ it.
This is all with my reading glasses on.
I bought them a year ago. They aren’t as good as they were but better than nothing, a lot better.
The floaters I have are grey to dark and don’t appear that often, more about these later in another post as they can make your vision puzzling and amusing sometimes.
I have started to clean with my glasses on as I’m paranoid I’m missing something. So they give me a bit more detail and can’t imagine not having them.
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Visually impaired and labels

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Woman holds up a hanger with a question mark on the labels
If I have my reading glasses I can cope with font that is a reasonable size.

If I haven’t got them on because I usually have my sunglasses on or distance glasses that aren’t good for the distance anymore really, I’m a bit lost.

In certain clothes shops they have a colour for sizes and I remember the colour on the hanger as I wander around.

Makeup has the smallest font that only someone with superhuman powers can see. I don’t think you have to have eye problems to have difficulty, so just mainly stare and hold it up close, move it around different angles and now I’ve started to ask people what the blumming colour is. I haven’t done this until recently as I was still in hiding.

I have a magnifying keyring on my keys but will not use that yet. At times I’ve not got what I wanted just because I cannot make out ingredients. Mainly as my son is vegan I look for food that may interest him to cook, but doesn’t have dairy in the ingredients.

It’s a good job I’m not allergic to any foods. That must be hard for someone who is. So I’m lucky that way.

One day I wanted a fish finger sandwich. Been shopping the day before and couldn’t read the jar properly. So off I went with my little jar of tartare thinking what a treat for my tea.

Sat down with my fish finger and horseradish sauce sandwich 😕 just because back then I wouldn’t ask.

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Large font keyboard for mobiles

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The keyboard I use for my phone and tablet is called SwiftKey.

You can make the pad larger so you can see the letters and numbers.

Also, you know those tiny blumming emojis and pictures? Well just type in a word of the emoji or picture you want to use ie… clapping 👏, laughing 😂, even monkey 🙊, and it will pop up on the right hand side of your keyboard if you have selected emoji predict.

Alot easier because you don’t want to be accidentally giving a smiley ☺ face or a thumb👍 up to a message or post that requires a sad 😔 face do you?