On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 12:34:35 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2018-09-30 10:22 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>>
>> I was 8 and did the same.* My cousin just got glasses and mom thought
>> maybe I just wanted to copy him like kids often do.* A trip to the doc
>> verified it though.
>
>I was about 13 when I first got glasses and my eyes deteriorated pretty
>rapidly.
>
>>Bifocals at about 42.
>
>Similarly but I hated them !
>
>Resisted getting transitions
>> for a long time, now it is a "must have" for me.
>>
>Same for me but they're bloody expensive with my prescription.
>
>> I'm 20/20* with glasses, 20/400 without.
>
>Without, my far point is about 20cm/8",
>In my 20s I had hard contacts but when I moved to Calgary, the humidity
>proved to be too low and I had to go back to specs.
>Graham


I wore soft contacts for 35 years then the eye doc told me she could
see the start of cataracts. So my next visit I 'failed' my eye test.
She asked me why because she guessed I was faking and I said it was
because I wanted to get the cataract surgery done. You are supposed
to wait until a certain level of sight drop. Anyway, she referred me
on to the surgeon, who asked me why she had written 'life style
preference' beside need, and when I said so it was easier to focus my
cameras he thought it was funny.

So because I had always had two different prescription contact lenses,
he simply implanted the contacts of the same level after the cataract
surgery. My sight is as excellent as it always was and I don't have
all the bother of taking the lens in and out. Viva health care!

I do notice a very slight drop in sight these days, but only for very
very small print, such as those numbers.