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DigMyChicks said:
I really am not looking forward to it at my age but I guess if I want to get rid of my gap I have to suck it up:D
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Yep. And I suppose they told you it takes longer with adults than it does with kids. We, and our teeth, are set in our ways.

ronott1 said:
From what I understand, they can to vision correction--one eye for close and one eye for distance
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:tongue

ronott1 said:
It is called binocular vision.
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It is called BREAKING binocular vision. I have lived my entire life (so far) without being able to focus with both eyes at the same time. That means no depth perception. I see no reason to break people who have normal vision. Normal vision is the brain taking input from both eyes and overlaying them to make a single IN FOCUS picture. And because the images are from slightly different angles, you get depth perception. Kinda hard to do that with one eye focused on something near and the other seeing it blurry because that eye is "set" to distance. The only way to "fix" it is for your brain to ignore the input from the "fuzzy" eye. Again I say :tongue

JaeG said:
How'd I get so far behind AGAIN!?
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Um, you didn't check in for one day? Sorry for all the illness and Dh's accident :(

Say, can you pop up to Oz and see what Teila is doing, haven't heard from her for a long time. Getting kinda worried.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Yep. And I suppose they told you it takes longer with adults than it does with kids. We, and our teeth, are set in our ways.


:tongue


It is called BREAKING binocular vision. I have lived my entire life (so far) without being able to focus with both eyes at the same time. That means no depth perception. I see no reason to break people who have normal vision. Normal vision is the brain taking input from both eyes and overlaying them to make a single IN FOCUS picture. And because the images are from slightly different angles, you get depth perception. Kinda hard to do that with one eye focused on something near and the other seeing it blurry because that eye is "set" to distance. The only way to "fix" it is for your brain to ignore the input from the "fuzzy" eye. Again I say :tongue


Um, you didn't check in for one day? Sorry for all the illness and Dh's accident :(

Say, can you pop up to Oz and see what Teila is doing, haven't heard from her for a long time. Getting kinda worried.
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Thanks! Depth perception loss is a big problem. I wonder if the inlays are better for that. They do not change the lens so should still work close and far but I will have to look into that!

My Boss has the lasiks for near and far and does not seem to have a depth perception problem. I need to ask her about that!
 
Please do, but understand that when in familiar places with familiar things, your brain can "fill in". DD2 has one really bad eye, could not read the 1.5" high numbers on a perpetual calendar at 15' with her left eye, and has contacts. Says she still has depth perception without her contacts or if she closes one eye. Um, right, only one eye and yet you have 2 overlapping images from different angles? Sorry, not believing that. Also note that depth perception is good only to about 15'. There are lots of other clues as to were things are relative to others such as overlap and shadowing.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Please do, but understand that when in familiar places with familiar things, your brain can "fill in". DD2 has one really bad eye, could not read the 1.5" high numbers on a perpetual calendar at 15' with her left eye, and has contacts. Says she still has depth perception without her contacts or if she closes one eye. Um, right, only one eye and yet you have 2 overlapping images from different angles? Sorry, not believing that. Also note that depth perception is good only to about 15'. There are lots of other clues as to were things are relative to others such as overlap and shadowing.
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Two of my Daughter have one eye that cannot see distance objects. They do have a bit of depth perception problems without glasses.
 
ronott1 said:
From what I understand, they can to vision correction--one eye for close and one eye for distance but you have to pay extra for it. That is under medicare.

Since I live in California I assume I will need cataract surgery one day and have this in mind for that.
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I've heard it called monovision. I've been toying with doing lasik like that. I think I'd try it out with contacts first though to see how hard it would be for my brain to adjust. Mind you, progressives didn't bother me right from the start.
 
ronott1 said:
From what I understand, they can to vision correction--one eye for close and one eye for distance but you have to pay extra for it. That is under medicare.

Since I live in California I assume I will need cataract surgery one day and have this in mind for that.
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Why do you say because you live in CA?
 

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