Twenty-five years ago, I had the Lasik procedure (it was very new back then). My results were 20/20 vision for 15 years. Shortly after the 15-year mark, my right eye regressed but my left eye vision remained perfect. For the next several years, I needed a mild distance prescription only for my right eye.
Entering mid-life, most people experience equally-fading close-up vision in both eyes (reading is blurry). Resulting from the Lasik surgery and one eye regressing, one of my eyes could still see close-up, but the other couldn’t (I have never been able to purchase readers at a general store).
The one good-close-up-vision eye compensated for the normally-aging eye. I could read a book into my early 50’s without readers. Eventually, my right eye hurt from doing all the work and prescription reader glasses became mandatory.
Since I need prescription readers, I don’t have a pair in every room and in the car like most people. I have one current pair and I keep the old ones around just in case.
The one pair is used on and off all day, every day. When I put them down, the search is on for where I left them.
You are middle age when…while searching for your reading glasses, you look like a third-base MLB coach giving play signals. I tap my shirt, pants, pockets, my head, and even sometimes my face – searching for the readers!
Sometimes, the glasses are on the counter or desk. Most of the time, I tuck the glasses into my pockets, hang them to the collar of my shirt, and stick them at the top of my head. It’s a sight when I’m patting myself down, using all sorts of unknown baseball signals!
I hear you wondering why I’m not using a glasses chain…I’m not ready for the lanyard, glasses strap, rope, etc. Vanity? Maybe a little, but it’s more the feeling of it against my cheeks and hanging around my already-sore neck.
I have tried to wear progressives twice. Sincerely, I want them to work. But alas, I’m still using a distance and a close-up pair. I’m buying at least one extra pair of readers this year.
The regression remains the same: I have near-perfect distance vision in the left, and near-perfect close up vision in the right. The lasers make for interesting aging eyesight, but I’m thankful to God for eyesight at all!
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Tales from a Mid-Lifer 
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