Presbyopia is a mystery. What causes this degenerative condition is relatively unknown. Is it a degeneration of the rods in the eyes? A hardening of the cornea? There is no general consensus. The sum total of what most optometrists believe is causing presbyopia is, well, age. Simply put, age causes the farsighted blurring of fine print.
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Save Your Nose to Spite Your Eyes
Monday, July 6, 2009
If reading glasses are an obstacle to your sense of well being, it is high time to think about overcoming this obstacle. How exactly does one overcome one’s reading glasses you may be asking? With a set of lenses — not lenses for your specs, but lenses for your eyes. A pair of contacts may be just the ticket you need to hop on board the youth train. After all, there are few items, short of a cane or walker, that belie a persons age more than a pair of reading glasses perched at the end of the nose.
A Life In Focus
Friday, July 3, 2009
Time has a curious quality of never stopping. Seasons pass, the days wind down, and the years accumulate. It is inevitable and we march on towards our fate always somehow three steps ahead of ourselves. The moment is never enough as we are constantly striving to plan, pressure and cajole a brighter future for ourselves. It seems one of the tenants of Zen Buddhism may have it right when it claims now is all we ever have.
Crossing Over With Vision
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The telltale signs are so slight, so imperceptible you may think nothing of it. It is the slow, steady blurring of the fine print that is a sure sign you have passed over into a new reality, a new phase. Welcome to presbyopia. As middle age progresses towards upper-middle-age, you may begin to notice that irritating blurring and begin to conjecture a more serious condition than the one actually affecting you.