[recluse]

I can't use contacts. My eye surgery created a condition called "bad binocularity" which only eyeglasses can correct.
Basically, my eyes focus independently of each other. Left for close up, right for distance. And they don't align properly. For years, without glasses, I was seeing two of whatever I tried to focus on. My right placed the object in it's true position, my left placed it closer, higher and to the left. When I was tired, I could feel my focus shift from eye to eye. Plus my left eye would drift, hiding my pupil when my right was in use.
I finally was given lenses to correct the problem about 7 years ago. Now my eyes work together without my glasses on and I have depth perception. And my vision stopped degenerating. My eyes are actually improving! I don't use them to read anymore and I stopped walking into things as much. I still don't have peripheral vision on the left and never will.