I WITNESS

Great eyes. I have always been blessed with tremendous eyesight. Well, until I reached the age of 45 or so. So I got reading glasses. Then progressive lenses because of a bit of astigmatism.

Then for six years or so, maybe not that long, I wore one contact lens in my left eye for reading purposes. I could still pick out where the golf ball traveled and could see much better than my golf partners.

I decided not to bother with the contact lens shortly after I retired. So it was laser surgery. But my eye doctor thought I didn't need the cut retina so he did an abrasion-type surgery where they reshape the eyeball and make no incision.

Bottom line: I'm still wearing reading glasses. Unless there is adequate lighting. And I can't see where my golf ball goes after 120 yards or so. Oh, I still check out well on the eye tests. But they have me read from a board that is lit up. Hey, give me light or a coal miner's hat and don't need anything to see.

Now my wife thinks I should go to her eye surgeon in St. Louis for the laser. I don't think so. I'm gonna wait for a light behind the retina invention.