I started wearing glasses when I was 8, hard contacts when I was 12. I've been in gas permeables for years, but I sure miss the old glass ones that never gave me any problems.
For most of my life I could read books & menus better without them, and when I wore them, I could read street signs before anyone else in the car.
A couple of years ago I noticed that I now needed them to read. And somehow contacts had gotten more uncomfortable, so I'm now depending on glasses more and more; now I'll even work out in them which I never thought I could do. But I'd love to be able to ditch them.
When my brother had his laser vision surgery almost 10 years ago, my (former) eye doctor told me not to bother, that people will still need reading glasses anyway at the age of 40, and so I might as well stick to contacts.
I might have still had the surgery, but I hate eye drops & cannot put them in. For some weird reason, I have no problem putting lenses in my eyes, but drops are impossible.
But I always thought that if I had the surgery, I might do just one eye & see how it goes.
My brother is happy about having had the surgery, by the way.
- Jake
|