I just went to the same eye doctor that I first went to when I was 10

That was 39 years ago. It's hard to believe he's still at it. He said he's been practicing since 1977, so he'd already been doing it for 8 years when I first saw him. He not only remembered me (even though I last went to see him about 25 years ago), but my father, mother, uncles, and siblings as well, and the state of their vision. He doesn't know my older sister though because she's the only one in the family who's never needed glasses.

He has a fancy machine now that can automatically dial in your prescription in a matter of seconds; he said it works like the autofocus on a camera. My last prescription was 15 years ago (not through him because I was on the other side of the country at the time), and they didn't have a machine like that then. He still followed up with the old manual lens flipping machine though just to confirm the results from the magic machine.

With the new prescription my vision is 20/15 (better than 20/20), which is pretty amazing.

He shares my long-held view on LASIK (not worth the risk), and he referred to the early version of that procedure (RK, which was done with a scalpel) as "butchery," and talked about various people he knows who have permanent complications from both procedures, including one woman who was one of the first people in Central Maine to have it done (RK).