Do you know what I worry about....?

[Forstarters]

If there were to be some kind of an apocalypse - a break down in civilisation and we all had to struggle to survive type of thing..... I reckon I’d be a vicious, brave, kick-ass survivor....I can see the cool dirt smears on my face as I forge a new way for humankind.....but....but if my glasses broke I’d be fucked..... I’d be useless....I mean I have two pairs but how long are they going to last in the post apocalyptic world? And how can I lead humankind half blind?

You been drinking op?

See my apocalypse concern is how would I carry two cats, the dog, and keep hold of Ds2 all at the same time. Maybe I need to build an apocalypse cart.

YANBU.

I also worry about this but am riddled with anxiety anyway.

Sometimes I entertain myself by worrying how I would have survived without my glasses/contacts at various points in history

Ha ha @Forstarters - I’m -9 so with you there! Everything more than 50cm away is blurry. I’ve had fleeting thoughts about that scenario too. Not in our lifetime but the huge impact Covid had on the economy and behaviour shows what a delicate balance everything has.

YES!!!! I'm shocked other people think about this!!!, i often worry what would happen if I was kidnapped and couldn't take my daily lenses! Haha!!

I was traumatised as a kid watching the lord of the flies film where piggy's glasses get broken

I'd be a kick ass warrior too. But not in the summer without my fexofenadine. Or the winter with my cold aversion. So maybe in April I'll join you?

I wear lenses too....but the most I ever have is 3 months worth. I could stretch that to 6 months....it’s not long enough.

First sign of impending apocalypse I’m breaking into specsavers.

@Shadedog they called it....

I'd be ok as I had my cataracts done early.!

Read "Last one at the party" by Bethany Clift
for an apocalyptic survival (or not) story.

Ooh, my eyes are ok but I have terrible teeth and only manage to keep abscesses at bay with a regimental dental floss, teepee electric tooth brush routine. I regularly reflect on how during an apocalyptic event my downfall would be poor dental hygiene: I reckon I’d be amazing for the first few weeks then shortly after running out of dental floss (which probably was used to fashion some kind of shelter) I’d be a gibbering mess curled up in pain with chronic toothache. When (obvs not recently) I fly I always take floss and a toothbrush in my hand luggage just in case there’s a disaster and I have to survive on a desert island 😂

@Whineandwine you could always pull them all out though couldn’t you? That would stop the pain.

HRT
In the apocalypse I'd have to fight the drug addicts breaking into the pharmacy in order to get my hands on a lifetime's supply.
I'll grab some extra floss for you while I'm there @Whineandwine

We can team up. I'll only last as long as my hearing aid batteries hold out but I can see reasonably well without glasses.

I'd die of something really boring and pedestrian like an infected tooth or a UTI before the end of the world got me....never been seriously ill (touches wood 50827272 times) but god do I get the worst of all the minor things. So without antibiotics it'd eventually get me!

I need to order more contact lenses ...

I’d have to order contacts and inhalers! If I knew in advance when it would happen I probably could fit in for an emergency laser eye surgery (I’m never this lucky) my lungs would still be fucked so I’d be blind and not able to breathe! I think I’d let the zombies have me to be honest

Contact lenses and HRT for me, mind I’m a wuss so wouldn’t last long anyway. Maybe it would be better to not have my HRT and my hormonal rages would help me survive!

My prescription suddenly stabilised about five years ago, but I like to get cheap alternative frames online in addition to my 'main' pair so I've got about a dozen pairs now in my current prescription. Plus I hang onto old ones with vague notions of getting them reglazed, so I've another dozen or so that, while not fully up to date, I can see reasonably well in. So I think I'd be OK.

It's ok, opticians are key workers so will remain open throughout the apocalypse. You may need to queue outside in protective armour though and I've heard their opening hours are reducing due to sudden loss of staff

It's an interesting topic to think about. We each use thousands of different products and services in our lives, yet most of us only specialise in supplying one of them in our work lives. We hear a lot in the media these days about how the world is overpopulated and how it would benefit the planet to have less people in it, but IMO part of the reason why we have such good technology and abundant choices of products/services is that the more people there are, the more highly skilled specialists there are in every field. Reducing the population from (what is it now, 10 billion?) to say 5 billion might help the ecology in some ways, but we would all be living far more primitive lives economically, as a result.

When I was very, very bored in lockdown I read The Name of the Rose. It's a historical detective novel about monks and some of it is about the invention of glasses. The really did change the world.
If you are shortsighted in a post-apocalyptic world you have to go live somewhere underground and turn being able to find your way around in the dark into an advantage.

@Forstarters you make a good point. I think I’ll ditch the floss in my carry on and just keep some pliers on me at all times....
And thanks @Sporranrummager very kind of you to think of me as you mount your assault on Boots.

@WhistlersandJugglers am I automatically a mole if I can’t see? I’ve never tried it out.

@Arbadacarba where do you live? Just out of interest?