<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I expect you will receive a good number of replies. Like many other things in life, there will many different approaches to seeing well as we age.</div><div><br></div><div>I wear progressive bifocals high on my face, and if I must, I can look below the frames for seeing extreme closely. My brother has a different approach; he wears contacts, and at work he leaves one contact out so he can use that eye for seeing things that are extremely close.</div><div><br></div><div>The progressive bifocals work fairly well with some exceptions; the best example I have of where the bifocals work poorly is for doing damper work inside the action cavity of a grand piano -- about 2 feet out and above you, impossible for me with bifocals. I finally had my eye doctor make me a pair of simple, single focus glasses that focus out about 2 feet; he called them computer monitor glasses so that the optician wouldn't get confused. This second pair of single focus glasses has really helped for piano repair and regulation work.</div><div><br></div><div>Kent</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Garret Traylor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Hi List,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">My optometrist has suggested that I talk with my colleagues for advice. I have been using bi-focals for about three years and now need to switch to either tri-focals, progressive lenses, contacts or some combination of the above. What has worked for you?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Kindest Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Garret<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">---<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>