My Father’s Progressive Glasses
My father is an engineer; he is now 48 years old. Originally, he suffers from myopia and his eye sight is very poor. Usually he wears a pair of 7 diopters. And that’s enough for his eyes. Recently, he said that he feel the glasses seems to not suit him anymore, sometimes he feels blurred when he look far away. So he asked me to accompany him to go to the doctor to have the eyes examined.
So the next Sunday, I accompanied him to go to the doctor. After the test, the doctor said that with the growing of the age, the condition of the eyes is becoming more complicated. When one look near, he or she would find it hard to see clearly, while look at things in distance, they still have problems. People become a combination of myopia and hypermetropia. This is called presbyopia. In this situation, the doctor advises my father to buy a pair of bifocal eyeglasses, which is designed for people with presbyopia. Bifocal eyeglass is a kind of glasses with different prescriptions in different parts of the lenses. For example, in the upper side of the glasses, the prescription is 3 diopters, while in the down side of the glasses, it may be 1 diopters. The difference in prescription may satisfy people who need different requests at different distance.
Instantly, we go home and search relevant information about bifocal eyeglasses. There is a large amount of information about it. And through careful observation we finally focused on some shops. And we separately clicked in the relevant hyperlinks and go on our careful study. Through the feedbacks of wearers, we know that there will be an adapting process. The common glasses only have single prescription while bifocal eyeglasses have two. So when one see things form different section of the glasses, the eyes themselves should adjust to the glasses, sometimes the wearers will feel dizzy. In the process of study, we came to know a different kind of glasses called progressive glasses. This kind of glasses is similar to the bifocal eyeglasses. Rather than two prescriptions, progressive glasses have many prescriptions in one pair of glasses. The prescriptions are arranged in a progressive order that is the reason of its name. So a single pair of glasses can satisfy people’s different demands, ranging from shortsighted to farsighted.
Finally, we decided to buy a pair of prescription glasses in an online shop called glassesshop.com. It has its own progressive section so we think it may be formal and reliable. Furthermore, the glasses sold by them are quite cheap since it’s the first time we buy progressive glasses and we should take care. We hold the opinion that if we take this purchase as an experiment so we should not take too much risk. If it fails, it did not take us much money, whereas it successes, we will be too happy to have done it.
The result turns to be satisfactory and we are quite satisfied by its after service. They take close eye on the feedback of my father and give professional suggestion to us. They are very good!
