I’ve never had a beautiful handwriting style that might be confused with calligraphy, but lately I’ve noticed how much worse it seems to be getting. Oh, sure, for a while I blamed it on being in a hurry while madly documenting the day’s events before rushing off to my next job, but now I realize that my handwriting is deteriorating because of changes in my vision.
It’s a sad but true fact of aging that over time, most of us will need reading glasses not only to see to read a menu or label, but also to see to write clearly. But what do you do with your glasses when you’re treating patients? If I leave them in my coat pocket, they fall out or get crushed against the treatment table. If I leave them at the desk, they get knocked to the floor or pushed behind a stack of charts where I can’t find them when I need them. If I wear them around my neck, I feel like an idiot.
What do you do with your reading glasses when you treat?
Anne Ahlman, MPT
I have also had such a decline in vision that I no longer wear cheater glasses on a strap aroud my neck .
I took a new job and failed the eye exam. Over the course of 10 years I have had to wear trifocals. It took some time getting used to them, but now they are on the face and out of the way all day long.
Lyneah Huff PT
Posted by: Lyneah Huff PT | September 09, 2009 at 06:12 PM