A LIFE WITH CLARITY

I DID IT! Having suffered with astigmatism for most of my life, last week I visited my eye doctor to see if I would benefit from lens replacement. Nope. But I could replace my glasses with contacts, which would greatly benefit my acting career. The “problem” is that there is no contact lens the would fully correct both eyes. The “solution” (ingenious really) was to have one eye corrected for near vision and the other for far vision. That is, one eye to read cue cards and the other to see what’s happening on set, or otherwise doing activities of daily living and driving.

Actually, it WORKS, though it’s taken me some time to be able to automatically shuttle from one eye to the other when changing from near to far sight. It was, I’ll admit, a bit disconcerting at first, sometimes resulting in blurred near and far vision, sometimes a weird kind of double vision, sometimes awareness of lenses over what I was seeing. A lot like life, in general.

I’m quite happy to report that I’m rapidly adjusting to the contacts and that they do, indeed, allow my famous “cornflower blue eyes” to be better seen by the camera and on film. And, in a sense, I can say I now see life with a new kind of clarity, both near and far.



Yep, that’s me with actress Setsuko Tsuchiya, out and about town at Ala Moana Shopping Center.

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