alexist

I finally had my eye exam this morning. As expected, my eyes are worse: right eye now down to -6.75, -1.50; left is at a stonking -5.50, -1.25--the first time it's ever been over a diopter of astigmatism :(

It's a bloody good thing I did the exam before booking driving lessons--with my current prescription, I shouldn't really be driving. I don't think I'm quite over the illegal mark (20/40 corrected?) but it's not very safe.

New glasses (old frames are knackered) came to £177!! :( The lenses are £115 for the pair AND I only got the regular thin lenses. The optician recommended I get the 1.74 lenses, but they would have been £260. Plus frames and exam. I did get a £46 discount, and I only got the basic £99 frames (no point me getting designer frames when I don't wear them all the time). I did get anti-reflective coating put on.

Worse, I need a separate exam for contacts--when I booked and said that I wore contacts I assumed the exam would be for both. It wasn't. I can't get the contact fitting till next week, and really, I need them more. Could try Specsavers, I guess. Because my lenses are torics, they have to be ordered in and I really want them before we go visit my parents so I can drive.