I’m glad your procedure went well! It is great to be able to see, isn’t it

I’m nearly 43, myself and, though my arms aren’t getting too short yet, I have noticed that it takes me longer to go from something close focus, like reading or sewing, to distance focus. I’m sure the presbyopia will come soon enough. I’ve been using the font size on my Kindle as a bit of a judge. I haven’t had to increase the size of the font yet and, so far, I am still holding it at about the same distance as I was 2 years ago.

I just had my annual checkup (2 years from my original procedure) and am still 20/15 in both eyes. I was giddy leaving the doctors’ office.

I am very glad my blogging of my experience helped you and reduced your stress over the whole thing. I’m glad I recorded the whole experience. It is interesting to go back and read it all again a couple years after the fact just to see what my frame of mind was then.

Anyway, procedure went greats – I had no problems, and I love my new vision! The first time camping was especially fabulous – no having to locate glasses in the middle of the night to keep from walking into a tree. The doc restored one eye to 20/20 and one to about 20/30, and told mei probably would have about a year or two before would need reading glasses again (i’m in my mid-forties and wore contacts for far vision and glasses to read). So far i haven’t needed any, but I’m starting to notice I’m moving books further away to read comfortably. Ah, well… Such is life.

Thanks again for sharing your experience! It definitely reduced my stress going into the procedure!

Christina

Thank you for the compliment of wanting me to make one for your daughter! While I can possibly be talked into making another, I warn you, the fabric is expensive and the process itself a bit time consuming, for a bag (about 15 hours total). The materials alone for that bag ran me between $80 – $90 (the Whovian fabric being $60 of that…I used the linen canvas). So while I might be willing, I wouldn’t do it for under $200, and though that would be a low price for my time, I think that’s a rather steep price for a 9 year old’s school bag. I’m also not certain I could complete it before school starts, as I’ve got a couple other projects in the works at the moment.

With a bit of practice, determination and some basic sewing skills, you could make something similar, I’m sure. The bag pictured on this post was the 3rd messenger bag I’ve made (the other 2 were practice for this one…and made with much less expensive fabric) and in the first 8 items of anything I’ve made. The skill level was higher than my skill level at the time, but I have a rather determined nature and really wanted this bag. I decided to take up sewing, as a hobby, at the end of last year and finally started actually learning and sewing at the beginning of this year.

Thanks for your time,

Christina Hindley

I should definitely preorder the Reason Rally DVD, too. Excellent idea!

How was MythBusters?

Did you make it to the Reason Rally last weekend? Sadly I did not.