Quote from: Maid Marion on June 18, 2025, 07:43:32 PMI saw a lady eye doctor today.  I showed her how neatly I did my nails as it takes good eyesight to paint your nail (plus hand-eye coordination) as evidence of how well I've recovered from a stroke. She decided that I ought be dilated for to check for retinal tears.  She found some old ones but they were small lower tears that healed on their own. She agreed that single prescription glasses are better for avoiding falls. 

I told the sales associate why I like to present as female to help her pick glasses for me.
She had plenty of time as we were waiting for my eyes to be dilated.  I liked one she picked and she said they had it an another color, purple.  I bought large purple frames for my next pair for golfing and driving.

Sounds nice!

Marion, I'd be interested in seeing your nails if you care to post a photo. If not, that's OK, too.

I love that color, MM!

Wow! You did do a great job! And I love the color, too!

As a female I can easily "fit in" and wear appropriate clothes for an upscale mall like West Farms Mall.
I could never do that as a guy.
I wore an orange Eddie Bauer top, black golf pants, and black booties with 2inch heels with my expensive designer prescription glasses and a pink watch. 

I saw a lot of women wearing open toe sandals so I may do that as well during the hot summer days.
Fortunately the weather was heavily overcast, so I could drive home while my eyes were partially dilated.

I talk a lot more now that I'm out.  I think this has helped me get better health care.
I told them my O.D. moved from this location and then retired.  This allowed them to figure out that they needed me to sign a release so they could get records from the other doctor.  In the past I didn't quite say what I needed for them to fully understand the situation.  Then there is the added impact of what you say if you dress appropriately.

I had lunch at PF Chang.  The pork egg roll, spicy chicken, and lo mein(noodles). 1480 calories.  I cleaned my plate using chopsticks.
Then I spent an hour walking around the mall in my heels before heading home.

I ordered new computer glasses from Zenni using my Health Insurance Awards program money!  Zenni gave me a $20 birthday discount on top of that!
I got four years of use out of the old ones but the light sensitive coating is starting to craze around the edges as expected when the coating is applied to plastic lenses.  By using different glasses for computer/gardening and driving my prescription stopped changing so much between checkups.  My new prescription now has the PD measurement missing from the old ones.  That is quite useful when buying glasses online.

I decided to go with exactly the same frames. They fit nicely and if I trash the frame I can swap frames with another pair.  I've done that once already with a pair of sunglasses that turned out to be too dark.

I had a pair of frames that I really loved because they fit right and were very lightweight. So, as my prescription changed, I would have them put the new lenses in the old frames. Sadly, the VA doesn't do that, so I had to get my frames elsewhere.

I have to get some new glasses, lenses are scratched on these and my  right eye needs stronger lens. Had to wait till I had some money first.

I picked up my new glasses today.  I still use my male name which confused the sales associate since my walk, talk, and clothes were totally feminine.  I wore sandals and nail polish on my toe nails.  Then she looked at the glasses and saw they were large cat eye frames with metallic purple accents.
My top was a pink sleeveless polo and I wore a white skirt with red printed design.

I found another beginner golf course to play on.  This one is pretty easy, 300 yard par 4s and one Par 3. No sand traps and the greens are bigger than the other courses I play.