I've worn glasses since I was 5, contact lenses from 15, and have run the gamut of hard lenses, soft, monthly, weekly and daily disposables, bifocals, distance and reading glasses, and of course the various non-prescription and prescription sunglasses. I currently have daily disposable monovision lenses - one eye supposedly for long distance, one for near - but I'm struggling now, and my optician has suggested I'll be better with contact lenses to my near vision prescription and reading glasses as well if needed. I wish I had a penny for every pound all my lenses and glasses have cost over the years!
My latest trip to the optician was prompted by my not recognising my own grandson at school pick up - he was wearing a new coat. I hadn't realised till then how much I relied on clues such as colours to get me through - I'm face blind anyway, so need to be able to see more clearly.
I also struggle with colours - navy, black, dark brown all becoming increasingly alike. I have the start of cataracts in both eyes, which won't be helping.
I'm eternally grateful for the medical expertise and technology we have these days. As someone who couldn't read the big A on the sight chart without knowing what it was, my life would have been very different without it.