First off,  I'm Chuck. Age: 60 years old.
This has been a lifelong problem for me.
I'm in construction, heavy equipment, and I
read a lot of blueprints and I had
double vision & blurred vision.
I was always having trouble reading the
blueprint, especially if we had to deal with
one that had a lot of graphics on it.
Because one line was kind of bleeding
over into another line. It's double vision
that I thought made it difficult.
Everybody else read the blueprints and they
were off and
[ I ] was always last to get it. The
words always kind of double vision and I lose my
place all the time and playing catch-up always in life.
It seemed like everybody was always faster
and I just felt stupid all the time. It
isn't fun being last
you don't have to be first but being
last is no fun. I mean, not when you're
struggling to see! That's really no life to live.
That coping with life and that's not
life to me. You certainly don't want
children have to just cope. I fought this
all my life and so I have two kids that
went through [vision therapy]. You know I thought,
"Really? Is this going to help?"
It did for them, very much so, but I remained
skeptical for two more years punishing
myself for two more years. People always ask me
about the tints in my glasses,
as you probably see in the video.
It started out with Dr. Becraft,
the optometrists. I felt it helped take
double-vision off - everything would
always "help" but... it's like standing
on the other side river we get halfway
to the middle but we never cross the
bridge. And finally, Jeff Becraft, O.D.
said that, "You know, Chuck, we need to
reach a little higher
get some higher help for you to get
this." You know, we all take things for granted
in life and me too. I was very
skeptical on this if this would even do
anything cause I said,  "How is it really going to help me?"
With this therapy, that I went through not,
I mean it's like WOW. You need to see
what you're missing!
Getting to these exercise that was what you
put in is what you're going to get out, and I would.
I would, probably thirty
minutes pretty much every day except the
days of therapy, I would give myself the
rest.
Otherwise, I'd set aside a time in the evening for
thirty minutes and the exercises. And
wow, I'm glad I did them! One morning I went
to put the glasses on, I'm like, "Holy moly!
Everything is so sharp!" And no more eyestrain,
I'm not tired anymore. No more squinting. I could take
these off, sit here,
and I can look, and I'm not squinting. Before-
I don't even want to do it- but I'd be squinting
like this and that would give me ferocious headaches.
I don't have the headaches. The debilitating
headaches. I would have motion sickness.
For the first time in my life, it's like
I don't feel stupid anymore. I feel like
I'm smart. I can read and I
get so much more out of it. I wish I could go back
relive all those years. I feel it would be so much better,
it would have been way more fun then always having to play
catch-up. You know, you want the best. Your
parents wanted the best for you. You want
your best for your children. You need to
give them all the tools, especially today
the way things are; they need to have all the
tools. And this tool can be used, really,
in every aspect of life from just
joining the outside, to doing the desk
work that none of us like doing, me
included. I like to think, "One day I'm
going to pinch myself and this was just a
dream and I'm stumble right back to
where I was..." and I'm using the word 'was'
because now it's past tense. For the
little cost, to be checked out to know; you
know, I can't live with, "What if?" If you're
struggling if you know you're losing
place and in you're having trouble seeing;
it's well worth to get checked out
because; hell, It a good many years
to convince me to
even try this. And I call it
punishing myself. Why did I do that?
I mean so senseless today when the help is
there. And I'm glad! Boy, this is a
whole new world for me! So every day is
an adventure. This is beautiful!
