Most of my life I’ve had extreme myopia – nearsightedness – and have been dependent on glasses to see almost everything. Recently I’ve had cataract surgery and oh. my. goodness! The colors are so much brighter. Images are sharper. And I’m seeing things at a distance without glasses that I never dreamed I would see. Truly, I’m seeing the world through new eyes.
This experience prompted me to do a little sleuthing about the history of vision correction, and some of the facts I dug up were quite surprising. And a lot of them were quite fun. I wrote it all up on the Heroes, Heroines, and History blog where I post once a month, and as fate would have it – the blog has a fabulous new look with a banner done by Matt Jones (who just happens to be the creator of my blog design). To celebrate the new look, there are a number of giveaways going on all month on the HHH blog. Please check out my post about eyeglasses and scroll around to the other fascinating posts. The more times you enter, the more chances of winning a prize.
See you there!