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My Mom's knees were so bad that she could stand with her feet a foot apart and her knees would touch each other. She got both replaced at once and talks all the time about how she would be a cripple without them. The only issue she's mentioned is that it hurts to kneel on a hard floor.
 
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BrutulTM said:
My Mom's knees were so bad that she could stand with her feet a foot apart and her knees would touch each other. She got both replaced at once and talks all the time about how she would be a cripple without them. The only issue she's mentioned is that it hurts to kneel on a hard floor.
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Yer mom does a lot of kneeling on hard floors... eh?
 
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She never mentioned any. But also we live in Texas, so cold is something we only really see in nature around a month out of every year it seems like. heh
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Few years ago one of my supers went to Nebraska for Xmas vacation. We come back and he calls ,says they decided the weather would be too back in Nebraska so they went to Texas instead, and now he was stuck in severe winter storm where electricity was being rationed and he didn't know when he was going to be able to leave. So forgive me if I don't believe ya. heh
 
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Kajiimagi said:
Few years ago one of my supers went to Nebraska for Xmas vacation. We come back and he calls ,says they decided the weather would be too back in Nebraska so they went to Texas instead, and now he was stuck in severe winter storm where electricity was being rationed and he didn't know when he was going to be able to leave. So forgive me if I don't believe ya. heh
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Oh yeah, we'll have a doozy of a winter storm in Dallas... About once every three or four years, and it will last for a few days before it all melts off. The number of Thanksgivings and Christmas Days I've spent wearing shorts and a short sleeved shirt greatly outnumbers the number of days "Ice outside" was a consideration ;)
 
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Oh yeah, we'll have a doozy of a winter storm in Dallas... About once every three or four years, and it will last for a few days before it all melts off. The number of Thanksgivings and Christmas Days I've spent wearing shorts and a short sleeved shirt greatly outnumbers the number of days "Ice outside" was a consideration ;)
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Well for the record, my 1st year here we had snow on Xmas one time, for about 2 hours before it melted. Vegas had 4" one time that lasted a day.
I don't 'do' snow.
Reason I asked was I worked with a guy who had titanium rods in his leg/back? Hell I don't remember it was around Desert Storm time and when it was cold in Charlotte NC he would be crying while working due to the cold causing him pain. Don't think he was faking.
 
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Well for the record, my 1st year here we had snow on Xmas one time, for about 2 hours before it melted. Vegas had 4" one time that lasted a day.
I don't 'do' snow.
Reason I asked was I worked with a guy who had titanium rods in his leg/back? Hell I don't remember it was around Desert Storm time and when it was cold in Charlotte NC he would be crying while working due to the cold causing him pain. Don't think he was faking.
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Owch. Then again I do suppose metal around heavy back nerves could also cause complication in that issue.
 
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for many people bone/joint issues get worse when the weather changes. for years after broke my knee it would feel like someone put a clamp on it when it was going to rain, but that faded over time. sure those big rods/pipes in femurs cause all sorts of issues when things change.
 
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for many people bone/joint issues get worse when the weather changes. for years after broke my knee it would feel like someone put a clamp on it when it was going to rain, but that faded over time. sure those big rods/pipes in femurs cause all sorts of issues when things change.
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Yeah, from what I've read it's barometric pressure shifts. Combine that with shifting body inflammation and you have issues. Mrs. Haus Mrs. Haus these days sports a pretty accurate "Rains a'comin" right hip due to some injuries she's had. Add into this that pressure and inflammation cause body tissues (including bone) to swell(heat) and also contract(cold), versus metal implants which do NOT swell, contract, or give and it seems to be a pretty easy recipe for something not feeling great. But in my observation it's not some absolute consistent across people.
 
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My eye doctor says I now require glasses while driving

whats better bifocals or progressives?
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All I can tell ya is I tried bifocals and fucking hate them. I'd rather have 2 pairs of glasses.
 
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loudgas said:
My eye doctor says I now require glasses while driving

whats better bifocals or progressives?
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If you can get the "new" digital, or wide valley etc. progressives then those will be fine and it will be just natural progression on how you look at things between Far-Mid-Close.

Hopefully you are not bad off like me - I have /strong/ astigmatism and my + rating is like 1.25 or something, so I can only use the "old" standard progressives that have a narrow channel - and my glasses have to be made /very/ specifically or they are super bad and worthless, its quite annoying... and time for a new prescription and glasses, so I get to go through the process again.

I need to see if the doctor I saw two years ago is still around, it was a chick, very nice, named McKracken! She was actually good, took my complaints about past glasses into consideration and came out and did the measuring and pupil alignment on my glasses along with the sales/tech person - those are the glasses I am actually using now- the ones I got as a refresh last year were made bad, I used a different doctor because I just did where my kids go, they are on different insurance.


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If you can get the "new" digital, or wide valley etc. progressives then those will be fine and it will be just natural progression on how you look at things between Far-Mid-Close.

Hopefully you are not bad off like me - I have /strong/ astigmatism and my + rating is like 1.25 or something, so I can only use the "old" standard progressives that have a narrow channel - and my glasses have to be made /very/ specifically or they are super bad and worthless, its quite annoying... and time for a new prescription and glasses, so I get to go through the process again.

I need to see if the doctor I saw two years ago is still around, it was a chick, very nice, named McKracken! She was actually good, took my complaints about past glasses into consideration and came out and did the measuring and pupil alignment on my glasses along with the sales/tech person - those are the glasses I am actually using now- the ones I got as a refresh last year were made bad, I used a different doctor because I just did where my kids go, they are on different insurance.


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Those graphics confuse the fuck out of me. What are the white zones on the left and right? Softer vision? What the fuck does that mean? I always thought they were like parallel lines.
 
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for progressives, outside the channel is blurry - your viewing range is within the middle channel and in those areas are the different focus areas.

The newer ones, the viewing channel is much much wider and its basically a non-issue, but some and depending on insurance coverage - the "old style" is all there is or may be covered.

I mostly am saying this to prep you if you have never had glasses let alone progressives, you do not get "the whole lenses" for viewing and at your prescription level... that is also why some people just buy "normal" glasses and then readers. I have been in progressives since 3rd/4th grade so it is actually hard for me to use single vision, I got single vision sunglasses - as a test, because as I mentioned getting my alignment and valley in the lens perfect is getting more important as I get older - but single vision is hard to adjust because my eyes are used to not "doing" the focus adjustments, and relying on moving my head to put my LoS into the proper viewing channel of the progressive lens.
 
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That sounds absolutely retarded. Thanks for the warning. I can use the entire lens with my glasses.
 
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Its just a fact of just how you are making a single lens piece of glass (plastic) with a variable X-Y - that, that trickery is done resulting in this "pattern"

All glasses lenses are big circles, then cut down to fit your frames, in that is where the center pupil focus is set and rotational axis etc... or maybe that is when the medicine is put into them.

It takes a bit to get used to them, when you first get them, and they fit you sitting down most likely- in a chair, normal procedure, when you first stand up with the new progressives, you most likely will get dizzy as you adjust, because your eyes wont have full free roaming to "see" your surroundings to balance and your lower "reading" area will distort that etc. and it kinda feels funny for a few moments.

You will learn to adjust your vision by shifting your actual head to put your pupil field of view into the proper channel of the lens via moving your glasses/head rather than just moving your eyeball wherever you want - but also depending on how low your script may be, the side channels "blurriness" may not affect you much as there may not be much difference for compensation.

edit: its VR FoV focus rendering IRL!!!
 
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Thanks, it may come down to whatever Costco offers, but I am thinking I will get the progressives (probably standard) for driving/gps, and a seperate pair (probably over the counter readers) for computer/gaming.
 
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loudgas said:
Thanks, it may come down to whatever Costco offers, but I am thinking I will get the progressives (probably standard) for driving/gps, and a seperate pair (probably over the counter readers) for computer/gaming.
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Costco and Sams actually usually have good options, Zeiss or other name brand for their upper end and better style - so there should be some options.
 
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