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My eyes, my eyes!

20 July, 2013
Posted in: Work

As I sit beside my loving husband on the sofa flicking through tv channels, I require him to read aloud to me the names of the programmes as they appear briefly on the screen below. Alas, I cannot read this unfeasibly small (ahem) print.

I know that I need glasses. However, since beginning parental leave at the start of July I have found that I am more and more able to read the small print. Might this be to do with the fact that I have not been spending all day in front of a glowing screen? I think it could. What do you reckon?

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  1. Conor Galvin says

    21 July, 2013 at 21:58

    Age can also be a factor in this. Though, obviously, in your case it’s the screen-thing….

  2. Dot says

    22 July, 2013 at 14:41

    Definitely the screen. Ken’s sight improved noticeably after he finished work at UCD and started being a practical man-about-the-house. Not sure if he’s got worse again during his year as a student. (Anecdotal evidence: the only basis for sure knowledge…)

  3. MT says

    23 July, 2013 at 02:03

    Your experience of reading better while on extended break from work endorses a theory propounded in a book called Better Eyesight Without Glasses, published in the 1930s. My grandmother was helped by its author, Dr Bates. I found a copy for sale in India about 15 years ago. It contains very simple exercises for keeping your eyes working well. Amazing that it isn’t better known.

  4. disgruntled says

    23 July, 2013 at 20:50

    I used to sit for an artist who absolutely swore by the Bates method for eyesight. He certainly didn’t need glasses to see very accurately – but I’ve no idea how bad it was before.

  5. belgianwaffle says

    31 July, 2013 at 11:48

    CG, age indeed, daft suggestion.

    I know Dot, as a colleague of mine is fond of saying “sample size: 1”

    Gosh, Dr. Bates was unknown to me but obviously the select group who comments here is well informed on him. Eyesight continues to improve though.

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