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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

When I was 6 one of the neighborhood bullies threw a rock and it sliced 
across my cornea.  *They* said I would be blind in that eye.  When I was 
about 10, I started getting eye strain headaches, so somewhere around 12 I 
got glasses.  The docs said that the injured eye had healed relatively well 
but that I had astrigmatism in that eye.  *They* said at that time that I 
would be legally blind by the time I was 40 and that my peripheral vision 
would disappear.  I also have real bad night blindness and *they* told my 
mother I'd never be able to get a drivers license unless it was restricted.

They were really peeved because I wouldn't wear them.  The glasses made me 
sick.  There was no way I could walk in them without getting nauseated and 
tripping and falling.  *They* said I didn't try hard enough.  So I wore them 
to go to the movies <g>  and quit complaining about the headaches.  I 
figured out that if I didn't read until midnight using a flashlight that I 
didn't get the headaches anymore <<bg>>

So, when I was about 25, I went in with the old pair of glasses to get some 
new ones because, hey, the ex's insurance covered everything, 100%, exam, 
frame, lenses AND tinting!  The optomitrist kept asking me how old the 
glasses were that I brought in with me.  Man didn't believe me when I told 
him I got them when I was 12.  He checked everything THREE times!  The 
prescription was the same as when I was 12!

Last time I went in to have a check up (had excellent insurance with the 
school district and it paid for everything), same prescription again.  Again 
with the "right lady" looks.  Same prescription.  New frames are nice every 
now and again and getting the photogray.  After a few years of forgetting 
them on the car dash the photogray kinda dies away.

The night blindness has worsened, big time!  The rest of the vision is still 
the same.  And my peripheral vision is beyond normal.

So, here I am well past the "you're going to be legally blind" age and still 
wearing the same glasses.  Well, for driving at night and sometimes for 
watching t.v.  The night driving is about nil but, hey, DH has to earn his 
keep somehow <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
> Leslie wrote:
>
>  I asked him what he meant, and he said it is not
> medically necessary to have 20/20 refraction, or any refraction for
> that matter.  He said that you only need corrective lenses for those
> times you want to actually see better.  As blind as I am I can walk
> around perfectly well without wearing my glasses, although I prefer
> to wear them, and I certainly couldn't attempt to hunt a deer or
> drive without them (although I could drive the scooter safely without
>  them, I think...)  LOL.