Last week the Czechs were named as "apparently" responsible for the creation of contact lenses, but luckily listener Muriel Gardner informed us that it was in fact her father....
"I was 13 when my father fitted me with my very first lens and now I'm the longest wearing
patient of this type of lens in this country. In the early days my father used to practice moulding
eye shapes, I remember him bringing home some cow's eyes in a brown paper bag and my mother saying
she would rather him using her
eyes as experiment, and at 13 I became his guinea pig."
"I'm sure part of my father was secretly pleased when he found out I was short sighted, especially
as I'm a singer and being in the public eye. When he first put a
lens in it felt like I had sand in my eye but as he was my father, I trusted
him completely. As I got older the material started improving but I have never worn soft lenses
and my short-sightedness has never got any worse and my eyes haven't detoriated."
"I was very proud of father and have never
worn prescription glasses - if I had done it would have felt like
letting the family down."
