Glasses half full?

Being ill is really beginning to tick me off.

Not that I've ever enjoyed it, quite the opposite, I dislike intensely the curtailment of my freedom, my inability to do what I want to do, etc., but now I have to put up with things that used to work fine, not working at all, or deteriorating before my eyes.

My sight is a prime example. For decades now, I've had perfect vision, I could see anything and everything without straining, I could happily switch between short and long distances at will, and I never needed to fret about seeing things in dim light. Suddenly, that's not the case. I now wear spectacles pretty much all the time.

This in itself wouldn't be a major problem, if I was really able to see properly with them, but I'm still struggling. I have a pair of 'varifocals' (I think), that are allegedly meant to cover all eventualities, but I can't drive in them as the weird foggy bits turn my head to mush. So, I also have a pair I drive in - they work fine, except for reversing into parking spaces, where I find that I'm better off not wearing any glasses at all.

Craft work is a nightmare - if the light isn't perfect (which it almost never is), I can't see the bitty things I want to use, and I wouldn't like to confess the number of times I've dropped beads recently, so my multifunction glasses are meant to sort that problem out. Once again though, they fail, the blurry edges make my head ache, even though I've been running them in for eight months.

Then there's the 'reading' glasses that I ought to wear, but I lost....  In reality, I put them down somewhere, and I can't see where I left them!