They're NOT glasses! They're readers!

Got me a pair or two from the 99¢ Only Store back when it was in business. Oh, I have pair of prescription glasses in a glasses' case in a bag that holds my checkbooks.

i hadn't noticed that things were getting to be indiscernible until I hit 45. I had finished nursing school and on the job I had to mentor someone. Came the time for us to administer an injectable so I told the young snooty thing that you have to look at the bottle and look at the medication administration report and you have to verify the five rights:
The right patient,
The right drug,
The right dose,
The right route,
and the right time.

So I'm holding the tiny bottle at different distances from my eyes and slowly turning the bottle around.

"What are you looking for?" she asked.

"Darndest thing," I said, "this bottle doesn't have the dose on it."

She took the bottle and said, "There it is!"

I took it back and stared at it. "Wow, when did they start printing those numbers so tiny!"

"Oh, they haven't changed," she said. "You just probably need glasses."

That was probably one of my first f**k y*u moments.

I had insurance but wasn't going to piss away good money on something as silly as glasses. So instead, I bought myself a magnifying glass. Oh yeah, that was real smart. Fits right in your shirt pocket! Nope. It was more trouble than it was worth.

So I went to the 99¢ Only Store and bought two pairs of magnifying readers with the ugliest frames. One was pink and the other was neon green. The uglier the glasses, the shorter amount of time you want to keep them on.

I've since gone to Kaiser and gotten the real kind of reading and for the computer. I still prefer the cheaper ones.