Do you have good eyes and small tools?

[xela]

So, I have a problem, and I think I have a solution (or at least a significant improvement).

This is, roughly, what I look like as I'm typing this:



An astute observer (or even a fairly oblivious one) may note that the large plastic cup taped over my left eye is causing me to have to wear my glasses nearly on the end of my nose. Said observer may also notice the indentation between my eyebrow and the bridge of my nose where my glasses normally sit. These are two very different places — different enough that I can't spend much time reading. To say nothing of the fact that every time I glance downward, I'm at risk of my glasses falling off. Which, since I'm not supposed to bend over for the duration, would be especially poor.

You may also note that my left lens is useless. And will be, permanently, since the brand new lens in my eye is nearsighted, and the left lens of my glasses is intended for a farsighted eye.

These glasses consist of two temples and a bridge, held together by the lenses. I know from experience, by breaking a temple, that I can wear them somewhat functionally without one temple — and what made that hard was the weight of the lens that was only supported by the bridge.

I have never examined them closely (chicken and egg problem there), but I can only imagine the lenses are attached to the frames by screws, And that if I were to detach the left lens from the bridge, I would in effect have a monocle, supported by the bridge of my nose and one ear. Which I believe I would be able to wear in something far closer to my normal position.

So if someone with good eyes and small tools would be interested in coming over and trying to take my glasses apart, I would be most grateful.....

Comments

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

You've gone all Steampunk! Possibly not of much help, but if you wanted to push the look, Instructables has info on how to make a mono-device, but I think you're wanting a duo-device!

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I have to say, of all the culture/fashion trends that have come along since I started noticing such things (which seems to have been deeply entangled with starting to notice girls --- Disco, punk, hippy-retro and a whold bunch of others I can't remember right off, steampunk is the first one to really sing to me. I flirted a bit in my 20s with hippy-retro (but mostly by way of wearing my SCA garb as medieval drag —when I had hair, I looked good in a cloak). And of course I was a black-jeans-and-t-shirt wearing geek before anyone decided it was a fashion statement. But steampunk... steampunk really gets my attention.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Is there gauze all the way from the shield to the surface of your eye? Or would it make sense to put the eyeglasses on underneath the shield?

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Well, the point of the shield is to keep foreign matter away from my eye, and my house is pretty dusty, so wering it over my glasses would be kind of counterproductive. But I got to implement my plan today, and it's working pretty well.

[alierak.livejournal.com]

Yay, glad you're doing well. I wish I'd been there to help.