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Originally Posted by Frankr
I was blind to the extent that I could not tell if I was standing 1 foot from a tree or a person, and I never expected the world to adapt to me. It was my handicap, not theirs. I was lucky, medical science caught up to my problem, and a see okay now. That being said, those universities are being ridiculous.
*just my opinion*
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Read recently on the web somewhere that Tiger Woods is appearing in some kind of lasik ad. Evidently he was legally blind, something like minus 11 in both eyes. Now he's 20/15.
Ah, here we go:
http://gizmodo.com/5403322/racing-on...d-should-we-be
Article is by a woman who races on these carbon fiber legs, having lost her feet at birth. She's talking about "enhancements" & questioning whether Tiger's contact lenses were enhancements - or his lasik.
I was somewhere around minus 8 before I had my lasik. I went for 20/20 in one eye and 20/40 in the other, retaining just enough nearsightedness to avoid any great need for reading glasses. Called monovision, & works fine for me. About half the people who test drive it with contacts get headaches.
But it didn't occur to me to go for 20/15 and take up golf. Or baseball. (Ted Williams, the greatest hitter ever, fighter pilot in WWII & Korea, was 20/15.)
Very interesting article, by the by. Altered my own perspective on the issue.