I got my new glasses today and now can finally really see in the ‘new’ eye. Yay! It’s also become obvious that the other eye is going to need to be done in the next few months. It’s on the downhill slide.
huzzah!
today was my follow up. all is good. inflammation is gone. as usual swelling in my face does not resolve easily, my left eye is within parameters. no bulging or anything, just a teensy bit bigger than it was.
back for an exam in december and that is when i will have any new prescription done. mostly movie/sports that sort of thing correction, for when i’m dealing with only distance vision stuff.
i do need magnifiers for a handful of things, like knitting with very fine #1 needles, or super fine print, otherwise i’m glasses free; which is very surreal.
I’m still adjusting to not needing glasses all the time. Not needing them for using a computer, for example. Being able to see my bedside clock when I wake up without fumbling for glasses.
I saw a specialist that monitored my cataracts. My cataracts were measured several times.
I reached a point that changing my prescription wouldn’t help my failing vision.
Doc recommended surgery. He did one eye and then the other eye six weeks later.
The difficult decision is deciding if I wanted near vision or far. I choose far vision. I can read my smart tv menus without glasses and I can drive without them.
I asked about multifocal lens. My doc didn’t recommend them. He said it was a compromise with unsatisfactory near and far vision.
Multifocal lens tech will probably improve in the next few years.