My friend, Phil, had his vision checked regularly when he was a kid, just like most of us Baby Boomers did. The vision tester would come to the elementary school every year and everyone would go to the nurse’s office and read the eye charts.

Then he went to junior high and high school and they didn’t test his vision any more. He went to college and graduated and started his career, got married, had a family and raised them and then, when he was in his mid-fifties he got Type-2 Diabetes and his physician suggested that the get his vision tested.

So he went to the optometrist in his community who gave him a battery of tests and said that he needed glasses and he should pick out some frames he liked and come back in a couple of weeks and pick them up.

A couple of weeks later he got a call …