Flora writes in an e-mail:

Hi, Alex,
Yes, that’s exactly what I feel about frames. I went from frame, half frame to frameless and they’re actually much lighter and more confortable on the face.
Another thing is I’ve read Liam’s impressive progress from -5.25 to 20/20 and he mentioned his breakthrough is the installment #61 – dealing with double vision.
I wonder if you can send me the installment 61 as I’m a self leaner just like Liam and wish to figure out that piece of puzzle. It took me about 3 years to go from -7.5 to -5.5 and I’d like to continue to improve my vision.
I started when I was 36 years old and got 1 diopter improvement the first year and was hoping to get to -4.5 by my 40th birthday. However the rate of improvement has slowed down after first year and I understand why by reading through your blogs and forum discussions.
I also want to post a question to you or on the forum, is the OK lens actually beneficial to kids’ vision improvement? a few of my friend have their myopic children wear a kind of hard contact lens to sleep over night. the next morning they take out the hard contact lens. Somehow the cornea is reshaped temporarily and the children will have a temporary vision correction that last 1 day. If we let kid stick to the 4 pillar of the vision improvement, will this OK lens help them even more?
Thanks!

The reference is of course to the previous article, about happy frames.

And actually, the whole question about orthokeratology (ortho-k, ok) deserves its own article, as it is certainly an interesting  subject (and frequently subject of e-mail questions).  Hopefully I will remember, and put that together for you as well.

Here though, a different subject – the end of the free mini course.  Which is ironic, because …

The Free Mini Rehab Course Has Been An Unexpected Hit.

Just last month alone, over 400 people downloaded the course.  Some days I spent almost the entire day answering e-mail questions, from participants in the free course.  Requests for free mailings of parts of the paid course started coming up as well, with increasing frequency.

And finally it reached the point where I found myself falling behind answering questions from those of you who graciously support this site and this project, by buying the full course.

This of course, is not fair to those who care enough about the site, and eyesight improvement, to actually support it.

I could of course say “no support for free course”.  But can I really ignore questions?  

I couldn’t.  And while it is nice to get things for free, I’m still just one person, and there is a finite amount of time and resources I can dedicate.  

There are lots of requests for additional installments, from participants of the paid program, who reached the end of the advanced content.  One-on-one participants often suggest that things like the hard pull strategies should make it into the Web program.   And they are right of course, there are some good practices that yield strong results, that I have not posted.  

But where do I find the time?

So as much as I enjoyed seeing so many really benefit from the free course, it was a flawed concept.  Between questions from free course participants that would be answered in the full course, requests for free inclusion of full program installments, and the sheer volume of support questions, free course has finally met its demise.

I replaced it with a course on preventing myopia, as well as stopping myopia progression.  This is also an important subject, which isn’t covered in the paid program – and quite relevant to eyesight health.

Since that is a simpler subject, and requires much less in terms of time investment and strategy, I anticipate that it will also mean less required support.  It will also keep some incentive for those who prefer not to dig through the whole blog and forum, to support this site and my time, via the paid course.

I hope you won’t be upset with me, for having to make this change.  The site is an ongoing evolution, with me looking to balance bringing you valuable eyesight improvement content, while also maintaining its long term viability.

And feel free to remind me, should I forget, to discuss some Ortho-K!

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