<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; WORD-WRAP: break-word; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; khtml-line-break: after-white-space"><BR>Yeah, right...<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Bec and John Silva" <BJSILVA001@COMCAST.NET><BR>To: "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 5/22/2006 5:13:57 PM<BR>Subject: Re: Glasses<BR><BR> <P align=left>Hi,</P> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>I know it is commonly thought today that refractive errors are basically permanent, but since this came up I felt compelled to pass on some information to anyone willing to do a little work on their vision to improve it.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>An optometrist developed a simple chart for the reduction of presbyopia (near vision is blurred), here's a link:</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.cam.org/~rsilver/presben.htm">http://www.cam.org/~rsilver/presben.htm</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>I've communicated with this guy and he says people have also reported improvement in their myopia (far vision is blurred) with the presbyopia reduction chart along with another of his charts at this link:</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.i-see.org/gottlieb/string_of_pearls.pdf">http://www.i-see.org/gottlieb/string_of_pearls.pdf</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>If anyone is willing to try them out for a month I'd love to hear if their presbyopia is reduced or eliminated.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>- John</DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Hello List..</SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Wondering what type of eye glasses are you wearing?</SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Progressive...bi-focal...other,  what works best for you?</SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Lou</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>