New eyes for the new season.

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I would recommend it to everyone

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I would love to have it done, but I fly as well as sail, and the CAA take a somewhat dim view of corrective surgery. Therefore I'm stuck with spray on my lenses.
 
Re: Diffraction gratings.

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Regarding swimming pools have you come across the goggles with corrective lenses in them?

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Best money I spent last year!. I can now see who's calling me while I am swimming, dive down on the anchor and see what I'm doing, same for scraping barnacles off of the prop or removing fouled fishing lines.

Best of all - and totally unexpected - is the ability to sail when it's raining without the worry of keeping my varifocals clear or the fear of losing them overboard!

I don't have the guts to have the operation though. I could not face the idea of something going horribly wrong. I sincerely admire the people who do it.
 
Re: Diffraction gratings.

- contacts and water are unwise as a combination. -

I surfed for years wearing contact lenses and only ever lost two, despite always opening my eyes under water. I swim regularly, snorkel frequently, go canoeing and dinghy racing, always in contact lenses. Surface tension is a pretty powerful force!

On the issue of the thread subject, what is the long-term prognosis? My prescription steadily worsened to a minimum of about -7.5 when I was 55 but is now improving to my current -6.0/5.5. My mother's experience was exactly the same. My optician tells me that this is quite normal. Will recipients of eye corrective surgery need to wear glasses (not close-work ones, which come to us all) at age 60?
 
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