Originally posted by Anakin
Well, it is rather common knowledge *looks around* at least in the Gutter 
that RDA was shortsighted. He wore glasses at the MacGyver casting session, and in early episodes of Stargate, if you cap some of his -really- close-ups, you may discern the outer rim of his lenses.
I don't know in which interview he said that he got a LASIK (another laser surgery than the one I had) done on both his eyes (twice I think?) to get rid of shortsightedness, and that he felt like a miracle had occured.
Now he's wearing glasses to read or see close, but that's because of age (as much as we'd all like him to have found the fountain of youth, the clock's still ticking!! - LOL - not that *I* care, mind you!!
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Hence the "influence" he got on *my* decision to have my eyes lazerized (among other incentives!)
that RDA was shortsighted. He wore glasses at the MacGyver casting session, and in early episodes of Stargate, if you cap some of his -really- close-ups, you may discern the outer rim of his lenses.I don't know in which interview he said that he got a LASIK (another laser surgery than the one I had) done on both his eyes (twice I think?) to get rid of shortsightedness, and that he felt like a miracle had occured.
Now he's wearing glasses to read or see close, but that's because of age (as much as we'd all like him to have found the fountain of youth, the clock's still ticking!! - LOL - not that *I* care, mind you!!
)Hence the "influence" he got on *my* decision to have my eyes lazerized (among other incentives!
)Here's the excerpt where he talks about it.
From: newfie
You've said in the past that you are extremely short sighted. Do you wear contact lenses for filming or do you prefer to work in a blur!!
Thanks
Linda
Richard Dean Anderson:
I used to like to work in a blur, but then I started realizing that maybe eye contact from across a room would be a good thing! But certainly in doing action adventure type things, you sort of need to see what’s going on. So I wore contacts for the longest time, and they just became a pain in the butt to deal with. I had LASIK surgery. And I love it. In fact I had two of them. The second one was an enhancement. I went from what was 20/250, or something like that, to 20/15 vision after the first surgery. It softened up to about 20/25, which meant I could still see more clearly at distance, and I could also read. The 25 rather than 20 allowed me to read without glasses. It’s what, I guess, the doctors kind of aim for, so you don’t need to have any form of glasses at all. When I came out of my first surgery, I had 20/15 vision. That’s like eagle eye. That’s seeing details at a distance that sometimes you shouldn’t see. Once everything settled down and I got into my 20/25 range, I went to a hockey game, and I could see the numbers at the opposite end of the rink, but I couldn’t really distinguish the facial things that were going on, and the numbers were a little soft. So I opted for the enhancement, and I went back to 20/15. Once you’ve had eagle eye, you don’t want to go back. So, to read, if I don’t have a ton of light on a piece of material, I’ve got about two dozen pairs of those little cheapy reading glasses. But, I had the LASIK, and I’m ecstatic about it.
Just FYI - 20/250 is not seeing your shoe laces to be able to tie them.
I had the LASIK done too. I was 20/400. Now it's 20/35 and the Doc told me "don't push your luck". I'm thrilled. (And always searching for my reading glasses.)
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EAR EAR EAR!!!!! Gah....**thunk**
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