Fading, close-up vision is one of the more vexing and ubiquitous consequences of growing older. For Cheri Ekstadt of Lakeville, Minnesota, it’s meant buying nine pairs of reading glasses, which she places wherever she might come across something with fine print.
“I usually have three upstairs and three downstairs and some in my purse,” says Ekstadt, 50.
Without the glasses, she can’t read anything.
