Ari... generally only the reading eyesight gets worse once you need reading glasses so you could still have surgery. I had it 10 years ago and my eyesight is the same now as the day I had it (in my 50s). You can get bifocal contact lenses... they take a bit of getting used to however. You can also get bifocal implants although, at least in the USA, that surgery is generally reserved for cataract patients. But that surgery is remarkably successful. Hearing aids have 16 to 32 frequency windows now so they can only amplify the frequencies one no longer can hear well. And this hearing aid is water-resistant: http://www.advancedhearing.com/site/955817/product/WPBTE We can't stop getting older (except for dying young) but we can plan to utilize tools to keep us active. Sometimes we have to change our priorities and sometimes we have to move to completely different activities. I no longer climb 1,000 meter rock faces, for instance. Nor can I cover 200km a day on a bicycle. Or ski a mogul-filled downhill slope. But I can kayak and cross-country ski so that's what I do. It beats watching soap operas. :P Craig On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Ari Saarto <asaarto_at_elisanet.fi> wrote: > Channels? Wow! > > I am just getting my first reading glasses this week. I have been wearing > contact lenses for 20 years, but last 12 months I have been wondering why is > it so difficult to read charts laying on my kayak deck. Stupid me. > > I'll have to re-think all my strategies considering paddling or working, > because my eyesight is about -8 in both eyes. An operation is out of > question because most probably it will have to be done again after few > years. And spectacles are quite irritating in rain and in my style of > four-season paddling & camping at the Finnish Gulf. > > Ari Saarto > - navigare necesse est - > http://asaarto1.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > On 7. syys 2009, at 06:29, Craig Jungers wrote: > > They even have several channels >> for different conditions like wind, loud noise, movies, etc. I had him >> program one channel to completely attenuate my wife's voice. >> >> I love these things!!! >> >> >> Craig Jungers *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 07 2009 - 00:24:09 PDT
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