Watching a commercial for glasses, I marvelled again at the fact that I no longer have to wear them. Started needing reading glasses in my twenties and things progressed to full-on glasses 24/7. I purchased contacts, but still had to don reading specs for close-up work.
That was where I was at until about seven years ago, when I was told I had cataracts. One eye was far-gone enough that the doctor told me I qualified for an artificial lens. Presto-chango, 15 minutes in an out-patient operating room and I had a perfect eye. No pain, no blood, nothing. But this "eye" was focussed for medium and long-range vision; still needed reading glasses.
Two years later, the other eye developed cataracts. Lucky me! "I want the other eye to be focussed on close-up and medium," I said to the doctor. "You won't like that," he replied. "Yes I will. A friend of mine has two different focusses and she loves it." So he agreed. My left eye is now focussed close-to-medium, meaning I can read a phone book with no problem. The brain quickly finds a way to figure it all out and compensates perfectly for distance or close-up.
I absolutely love not having to wear glasses -- ever. And of course, eye strain doesn't exist because I have little machines in my eyes, not real eyes. I can swim and do anything without worry, these babies are just about indestructible.
Pray for cataracts.
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I really didn't want reading glasses. So I got contacts...one contact rather...mono vision as they cslled it, where using one contact for reading, it would govern my sight while I was reading, and when I need to see afar, my other (normal) eye took over. In theory, it was genius. In practice...well not so much. I'm back to reading glasses around my neck.
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