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> From: Mary Tegel
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:26 AM

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> Do any of you wear progressive lenses (PAL) for your work, 

I tried them and could not adjust. I theorize that in my case, trained as a designer and believing myself to be fairly observant of my environment, I sweep my eyes a lot to scan the scene, rather than turning my head to look at things. That meant that I was constantly moving in and out of the distance "sweet spot." I just found them incredibly annoying and realized that I was never going to adapt to them.

This was one case where the 30-day free replacement guarantee from the big national chain worked for me. Now I have one set of distance glasses for my nearsightedness, and I do the granny-look-over-the-top (and under the bottom) thing with my face really close to whatever I need to see the details for. Which looks perhaps a bit silly, but I have a benchmark that helps me feel better:

My mechanical engineer father-in-law (RIP) would just wear both pairs of glasses, distance and reading, at the same time. He had a very agile neck, and a long nose.

dan my glasses are half full becker
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