• Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    My mom had to go back to glasses after wearing contacts for years because the contacts wore away her corneas!

    That’s a slightly horrifying thought… My wife has keratoconus and has to wear hard contacts (scleral lenses, but functionally the same thing) in order to see at all.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah it was unsettling.

      My hope lies with science. Two women at my work had to have cornea replacement and both of them don’t need glasses at all anymore - one is 65 and one is 70.

      And oh yes I was profoundly nearsighted and hard contacts gave me superhuman vision. They are the best correction by far. But I am really hoping that good artificial corneas are available soon.