Re: [lace] Importance of Myopia for lacemaking

2022-04-01 Thread lynrbailey
Dear Joepie and Devon, I am so very glad you brought this subject to everyone's attention.  I have worn glasses since I was 9.  My minus is about 6.5, for those who know, or, my 20/20 without glasses is about 7 inches from my eyes.  This is an advantage for lacemaking, as when my bifocals don't

Re: [lace] Importance of Myopia for lacemaking

2022-04-01 Thread J-D Hammett
Hi Devon and other Arachnids, Firstly apologies for not cutting Devon's message or all the Arachne info, but I am on my phone and do not know how to do that. I had cataracts removed in both eyes about 2.5 years ago. I opted to get the best lenses I could which were expensive but amazing. They

Re: [lace] Importance of Myopia for lacemaking

2022-04-01 Thread N.A. Neff
Hi Devon, I've had cataract surgery in both eyes. I chose to get implanted lenses that corrected my distance vision so I could still drive (to the optician's, for example) if I broke my glasses, so I wear glasses for close work; this logic makes distance vision without glasses a no-brainer for

[lace] Importance of Myopia for lacemaking

2022-04-01 Thread DevonThein
Gentle Spiders, I have been told that I should have cataract surgery. There are many options in cataract surgery and I don’t know that I understand them all. According to the doctor, I can have the inexpensive and largely insurance subsidized surgery in which I will have “basic” lenses