My vision is OK, or should I say not deteriorating any more rapidly than that of most people our age. Not long ago, though, I did run into something I could not read. It was the serial number on an iPod Nano I had bought Allie for her birthday. Typical Apple form over function -- the S.N. was in about 0.005 point type, and faint as well. I tried from several angles, with and without glasses, and simply couldn't read it. I asked Allie to take a look and she rattled it right off. She doesn't even wear glasses, the little turd. I keep telling them this stuff will happen to them some day but of course they don't believe me.


>I have 1x reading glasses that I bought at Walmart (per the eye doctor's recommendation) and use for reading fine print on medicine bottles, ingredients on food products and shampoo, et al. I finally had to admit that the print wasn't getting smaller and it was my eyes :o) I actually have a prescription that has 1x on the bottom and nothing on the top. I've never used them though because I only need them when reading small print and I'd rather have larger glasses for that then try to look through the very bottom of glasses.
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>>My step-brother, who is four months older than me, got bifocals a couple of years ago. He called them "old man glasses". I've been resisting getting them ever since that comment.
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>>>About a year ago I noticed that I had to start holding books further away when reading. Now that is a true sign of aging! :o) I went for the full eye exam right after and he told me it was normal and I was lucky that it hadn't started earlier. Yikes.