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Back in March 2020 (remember March 2020?) I was thinking, "You know, I really really need to make that optometry appointment and get my lens prescriptions updated because I can feel that weird tension in my scalp that's my muscle desperately trying to focus my eyes that last little bit for clarity." And then...March 2020 happened. And this current May, when I'd gotten my second Moderna and had a clear date for official protection, I made a whole bunch of backlogged medical appointments, but couldn't manage to get an optometry appointment. They were all booked up far enough ahead that they weren't scheduling. (Lots of people who'd put it off.) This past weekend, one of my eyes was feeling irritated and was also more out of focus than usual (hard to know which was cause and which was effect), and although the extra unfocus went away, it spurred me to try to get an appointment again. The non-immediate appointment interface was behaving brokenly in a very annoying way, so I finally said "how about today or tomorrow" and grabbed the first appointment that came up.

So yesterday I had my eye exam (yes, vision has shifted, but similarly at all distances which evidently is good? beginnings of cataracts which is no surprise given family history, but nothing that has to be taken care of for quite some time). Today I spent my lunch hour at Lens Crafters and manged to walk out having spent less than $1000 for three pairs of glasses, which I consider a victory. I don't usually update all of my glasses at the same time, but it's been 5 years since my last exam and they all needed it.

So in a couple of weeks I get to find out out how much of a difference it makes when I'm not constantly straining my vision a bit.