If you can believe this, I wore the same glasses for TWELVE YEARS before I finally went to get new ones! Couldn't see a darned thing out of the old ones! And now I think I need to go again. But when I go these, it was such a drastic change that they warned me not to try to wear them to drive home. They said to put them on at home for a few hours at a time till I got used to them.
This all reminds me of taking my son to get badly needed glasses when he was about twelve. He had fought the idea of glasses for so long but he really needed them. I'll never forget him coming out of the doctors office with the new glasses on, he looked down, threw his arms up in the air, and said, "Whoa! The ground is closer up!" I had to take his arm and literally guide him along the sidewalk, down the curb and in to the car! And all the way home he kept staring out the car window - he hadn't been able to see before that the trees had individual leaves on them, not just big green blobs at the ends of the branches! And now, years later, he doesn't need them at all. He has no vision problems and had no trouble passing the eye test for his drivers license.