Off-Topic Sunday: Vintage Vespas, Payment Gateways, & Pooping Babies
Above: A tranquil moment while on a walk outside the hospital. ---- Every time it's Sunday, I forget it's Sunday. And I write an on-topic blog post for you. And then half the time during the week the motivation factor is a bit low and I really just want to put up some random pictures and totally unrelated musings. It's sort of like if you spend eight hours a day in the office. You make friends with co-workers, and you bring some parts of your personal life into [...]
Roberto’s 10 Month Progress: From -3.75 Reduced to -2.50
There is one phrase I type so many times that my fingers probably twitch these keystrokes while I sleep: You don't need to buy anything from me, to improve your eyesight. Everything you need is in the blog. Usually it's something I mention responding to e-mails from people saying they wish they could afford BackTo20/20, or that they'll do it eventually, or asking whether they can get an extension for sign-up, or an exception if their invite already expired. And I always say it. Don't need [...]
One Single Question To Predict Your Success Or Failure
Ever notice how it barely registers in your mind as long as everything goes smoothly? It's like that with my students. Sometimes I feel slightly anxious thinking that there are literally hundreds and hundreds of people reading, applying, adjusting, working on their eyesight based on the BackTo20/20 lessons. And I don't hear from 90% of them, more than maybe once or twice a month. Sure, the program based on a decade of direct experience, besides fixing my own eyes. The original version even was a [...]
Tori: Two Whole Diopters Less And Still 20/15???
Tori writes in the forum: Yesterday, my contact lenses arrived in an array of prescription strengths from -3.25 to -4.5. Since I have my Snellen chart, I put in my -4.00 lenses into my left eye (prescribed -4.50), opting for a larger reduction since I feel like my left eye was particularly over prescribed, and started with -3.50 (prescribed -3.75) in my right eye. Here were the Snellen results (at end of the day): R: -3.50, still 20/15 and crystal clear L: -4.00, between 20/30 [...]
Fountain Of Youth? Fixing Your Eyes When You’re Over 70
You know the eyesight intro course you can subscribe to from all over the site? Well, I did something pretty stupid with it when I set it up. How stupid? I set the "reply-to" e-mail address as my main e-mail. My reasoning at the time? I didn't want to blast out e-mails in a one way type of dialog. I wanted readers to be able to hit reply, tell me whatever was on their minds, and for me to actually receive all those e-mails. Made sense [...]
Steroids To Boost Dynamic Visual Acuity
So my friend wants to come visit at the hospital, see the small monkey. She's taking the skytrain which stops at a station conveniently just a few kilometers from the hospital. I tell here I'll pick her up on the bike, help us dodge rush hour traffic. Since I haven't slept properly in days and spent all my remaining time indoors and reading books, my eyesight isn't amazing today. It's also after dark and rainy, altogether not making for ideal vision to be taking responsibility [...]