>  Well for me anyway corrective lenses help me a lot
 > more than a hearing aid
 > ever did. :)

 BM> Now, that I can understand.  You can see an improvement in vision much
 BM> more than you can hear an improvement that the audiologist says is
 BM> there. To my way of thinking, for a hearing aid to noticeably improve
 BM> your comprehension, it would have to do the equivalent of glasses
 BM> making a totally colorblind person suddenly able to see green, blue,
 BM> purple, orange, etc., instead of shades of gray.

 Yep that.. and it's really no good at all if all you get improvement
with by a h.a is volume. While we can get away with not being able to
discern certain colors, Speech requires tone discrimination.

 >  Speaking of color and tone, what do you think of
 > color tones? You
 > know those tests they give for color blindness? The
 > spots with
 > different colors and you have to discern the number or
 > letter 'hidden'
 > in the picture? Well I can do that. But for some
 > strange reason the
 > last time I took it I had trouble with some tones..and
 > so I got this
 > color blind label even though I can discern tones.
 > Isn't that weird?

 BM> Three comments on this:  First, eat those bright colored veggies.

 I DO! :) Good for night vision. Maybe I need more though.
 And I take lutein and I think it's helping me be less light sensitive.
 
 BM> Second, if you have cataracts, you might discover with their removal
 BM> that some socks you always thought were black are actually a deep,

 Not so far...

 BM> deep purple.  Even so, I believe color discrimination declines
 BM> somewhat with age.  Third, as you get older, your sight gets dimmer. 

That's sad. No wonder as we age we not only like spicier foods
(tastebud decline) we like brighter colors!

 BM> I was in a bay, once, waiting while my oil was being changed. The
 BM> young man peeked in the window to get my mileage, and recited it. I
 BM> couldn't even see the numbers, let alone read them, it was so dark! 
 BM> What an education! I turned on the parking lights to illiminate the
 BM> numbers, and he had read them correctly.

 He's straininghis eyes though. And people who watch TV / work the puter
in the dark strain their eyes. You need soem lights on.. it diffuses
the screen lights...

 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 > not the color discrimination I have a problem with as
 > much as what the
 > light level/type is.

 BM> You can check that out easily enough.  Use a brighter light; if it
 BM> helps, that's at least part of the problem.  An interesting
 BM> experiment:  I bought some "blue blocker" Polarized sunglasses some
 BM> years ago.  These glasses made the sky look yellow to brown, and my
 BM> blue turn signal in the dash was visible only when I was driving
 BM> through shade.  My blue slacks look black, yellow things look yellow,
 BM> white things look yellow, etc.  talk about weird.  The sky color is
 BM> pretty well normalized, now, but I still have to take the glasses off
 BM> to tell whether I'm looking at white or yellow flowers, or to
 BM> determine the "real" color of that pretty car.

Gray (light black) has one redeeming quality, in sun glasses it doesn't
distort colors. :) I did notice with my new polarized clip ons the
clouds looked whiter and the sky bluer (darker)...

 .............................

 >  BM> Maybe.  After surgery, your vision is fuzzy, and nothing sharpens it
 >  BM> except eventual healing.

 >  A scary thing. You've heard of the laser surgery? I
 > found out it
 > isn't effective for all vision problems and even then
 > the effect might
 > not last and is sometimes effected by humidity. Kinda
 > risky!

 BM> Yes, and I wouldn't even consider it for myself, as I've had eight
 BM> conventional surgeries for cataracts, glaucoma, and detachments.

 My sister pressed me to at least ask and sure enough I was told I'd
be too much a libility.

............

 > about not having been told the extra expense of the
 > photochromatic
 > effect wouldn't last.

 BM> Yes, I saw your message on the subject awhile back.  I tried them many
 BM> years ago, but didn't like them, as they were too slow to darken and
 BM> too slow to lighten.  Maybe they're faster, now.

 Yeah mine seemed fast enough but I won't get them again until they
can make the process last longer.

I've always liked the two tone sunglasses. The kind where the lower
1/4 is lighter than the rest.. makes reading easier out doors and they
look good. Haven't seen them around anymore though.

 > all about what
 > I've already been telling them for years...

 BM> Yep.  And depending on the type of disease, it might skip a generation
 BM> and show up, if it's going to, in their offspring, instead.

 Yep. And another interesting thing about inhereited disease, what is
expressed might NOT be the same exact variety. when a woman I reaed of
had breast cancer though her mother and grandmother had it, her doctor
found her type wasn't the same as theirs. hmm.

Cindy

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