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Slots of fun

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3 cartoon pictures of 6 friends at the seaside

With the quarantine coming into effect in March 2020. That\’s scuppered me and my friends plans to go away in April.

It was all booked and we were so looking forward getting together. Just the 6 of us.
I’ve known these ladies for years and years. They are the sort of people that you already know you have had the best time away, even before you have gone ☺
Putting the world to rights, laughing… Lots of that. Helping each other vent about something that’s bothering us or upsetting us, cheering someone up, sometimes wiping the tears away and having a cuddle, taking the mickey, getting drunk and then watching your friend help another because she has fallen out of the taxi, while the rest of us are laughing at the situation. We are in our 40s. That was a true event.
I can rely on them to take any difficulties away that I would face on my own. Because I treat my reading glasses like the holy grail and frightened of breaking or losing them, I don\’t take them out. I will have to get a spare pair of glasses.
But for now… they become my spare set of eyes.
They would read the whole menu for me if I asked them, but I wouldn’t have them doing that and because I’m at the seaside I will most likely say… ‘have they got one of those seaside fish and chips special things with the little pot of tea and the bread and butter?’
They will read it out to me. Tell me how much it is and then bless them, they will usually order for me as it’s just less stressful for me.
They will read anything I can’t see if they see me squinting or I ask them.
Enlarging a photo on their phone is standard nowadays. Then, even if I still can’t see it, they tell me what it is, I stare abit more and then I can usually make it out if I know what I’m looking for.
Sometimes I just say ‘still haven\’t got a bloody clue’
I also have to trust them if they take a picture as my eye has developed abit of a slight squint that I only became aware of when I looked at some photos recently.
I think it’s because my eyes are so near a phone they are rapidly trying to focus. Panicking thinking.. ‘What they hell is that? … Hurry up… She wants to see it’
They point out where I should look at them camera. We will all delete one, when it’s not best for all of us.
If it\’s bumpy ground or there is kerb hell where I am, I will link arms so that if I go down… they will either stop me or I’m taking them down with me.
The thing is… I can relax.
I usually don’t like looking at my phone very closely in public. But I will when I’m with these lot as I don’t care as much, because woe betide any randomer that would make a comment about it to me.
Before I could even react or say anything at all, the poor person would immediately regret it ☺
They would most probably be more angry and upset than me.
So, we have provisionally moved our little holiday for October.
Something to look forward to ☺
If that can’t happen then we will just move the date again.
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Booked an eye test

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hand holding a mobile phone with Boots Optician web page on screen

Booked my eye test today.

Important to keep my sight going and eek out any help or improvement I can.
How I see it is… I’ve aways had this condition, even when I was growing inside my Mother, so I’m not mad at my eyes. They haven’t let me down. If anything they have let me do things and experience life independently for alot longer than most.
Alot of people with this condition don’t have that luxury. It shows itself to them when they are kids, so having later onset macular dystrophy is remarkable.
It isn’t anything I’ve done. Won’t have done anything different from those people who have difficulties from a very early age. Just luck of the draw I guess.
Will be interesting to see if the deterioration I know is there, means a different prescription. Whilst the ophthalmologist can detect the changes from me reading the Snellen chart, what can’t be considered by them is the tiny blind spot that makes C into O, E into an F etc.
All depends on where the spot has shifted. Whether I’m stressed, tired, been reading or too much light in my eyes.
I’m sure if I went to have an eye test everyday. There would be a different result from one day to the other.
There will be a time when the grey/black blob and the blindspots will overtake my current situation. But as for now, my good old eyes are hanging on in there… sort of ☺
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Press yellow to clear

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Women holding blurred coins in hand

Debit cards and using cash are frustrating now.
For a while I’ve had to feel the shape if I’m not sure. Or just pay in pound coins or 50ps as they are easier to fathom.
If I’m feeling rushed… As in there is a big cue waiting, I would always hand over a note.
So, that means there is always lots of change weighing me down.
I’m getting rid of this by using coins at the shop, when it isn’t busy and there is only me or another person in there. I have time to concentrate and just tell myself to think ☺
This was mostly before our current situation. The Virus.
The little shop near me now prefers card payments to keep the rate of infection down. They have a screen up and there’s only 2 people allowed in the shop at one time with the shopkeeper.
The card machine is hard to see and usually I’m stood there and my pin number is wrong or I’ve pressed the wrong button. Press yellow to clear they tell me.