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Old 12-14-2014, 04:59 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Everyone needs reading glasses when they get into their mid 40s.
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Don't worry, but not everyone every needs reading glasses. There are three broad classes of people that don't:
  1. Those that are blind
  2. Those that fail to live to middle age
  3. Those who are sufficiently near sighted enough to read w/o glasses though they need glasses for distant vision.
Not true. 67 here, and three months ago my eye doctor pronounced, "Perfect vision in one eye, slightly nearsighted in the other."

As I began to suffer the onset of "far-sighted of the aged" sometime in my late 50s, I forced myself to exercise my near vision. I play maybe 20 minutes of solitaire most every day on a PDA with brightness turned down, and with the PDA held very close to my face. Sometimes it takes a bit of strain and blinking to focus properly, but the end result is that I've maintained enough near vision at this age to be able to read fine print. When I told my eye doctor what I've been doing, expecting to be admonished, he just said, "Good idea!"

Three years ago I met someone at a high school reunion who was 62 and had perfect near and far vision, better than mine. She was a school teacher by trade, so maybe something about that occupation helped her.

My trick may not work for everyone, as I've always had good vision (20/12 at age 20).
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