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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> All I can say is Thank God for High Refractive Index Plastic.
> It is more than just cosmetic. With glass, there was always a safety
> issue, and with either glass or plastic, the weight of the lens
> determined(s) what kind of frame it goes it.

I've worn glasses since I was 3 years old...I'm very nearsighted and legal 
blind in one eye. When my lenses were glass, they used to be real Coke 
bottle bottoms...I had to wear the big clunky frames, and the weight would 
leave red indents in my nose. With the High Refractive Index plastic I can 
wear wire-rims. I always had the huge frames that made me look like an owl; 
now I have smaller frames and I like them. I don't have as big a field of 
vision with the smaller frames, but being able to look over them to read the 
fine print is becoming more useful all the time :-).

I can't wear bifocals; I tried once and they throw off my balance...I could 
barely walk straight. My eye-brain coordination sucks already, without 
having two different focal points (probably because I'm blind in one eye and 
have no depth perception).

Lynn Wigglesworth