Contact lenses revolutionized life for people like me. I got my first pair of glasses in the 4th grade. The standards when I was a child required you to be 13 to get contact lenses. There wasn't a "maturity factor" option to get an earlier contact lens prescription. I impatiently counted the days until I could get contacts.
Though a respected ophthalmologist, who examined me, insisted that "putting contact lenses on your eye to restrict additional vision impairment" was like "putting a hat on your head to keep you from growing", contact lenses were a godsend for me. My vision was regressing each year before I started wearing contacts. My vision has shown remarkably little degradation since I became a contact lens wearer.
Technological advancements have vastly improved contact lenses. For many years, I wore hard contacts. There was a lengthy period of increasing your wearing time, over a period of days or weeks, to allow your eye to adjust to this foreign object. Of course, today, any contact lens wearer leaves the prescriber's office with a comfortable lens, that needs little to no adaptation time. Today's technology comparison of my first lenses, to those others and I now wear, would probably be equivalent to using a typewriter versus enjoying the benefits afforded by laptops and smart phones.
How thankful I am that brilliant, entrepreneurial researchers continue to enhance the ways that we all see the world!
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