Education in the United States

I really wanted freedom from glasses. Having worn glasses since the third grade I was really sick of them. I had glasses that were as thick as the bottom of coke bottles, then. They were heavy, horn-rimmed glasses and sat like a ton of bricks on my nose. I was nearsighted. I didn't know it but I was having trouble seeing the blackboard. I just thought everybody squinted. Later, I got wire rimmed glasses, which had thinner lenses, but were still heavy. I was always breaking those too. They weren't made so well. As time went on, I got contact lenses and I found out that I couldn't wear those. They bothered my eyes, burned them, so I couldn't leave them in for any length of time. Finally I got a really bad eye infection and quit wearing contacts all together, until the new soft lenses came out. Those were a little easier, but they still bothered me. And I still got infections. Then I heard about laser treatments, and wanted to give them a try. I had heard about some side effects, but I thought it was still worth a shot to get rid of glasses. I just wasn't going to be the first to do it. So I waited until the technology was out for a few years. Jim was the first of my friends to get lasik, and he swears by it.