Corrective 'Early' Cataract Surgery
Good to hear another success story regarding cataract surgery.
(poor old NHS though: 'Bring a spare mask')
My partner has just had hers done and couldn't be happier. She's been wearing reading glasses for quite a while and, after a detailed conversation with her surgeon, decided to go for the 'one eye long, the other eye close' corrective lenses. Top result and and not as strange as it might seem, since it appears that your brain is typically only using one eye at a time for most of its work anyway, with the less-dominant eye adding periperal and the all-importand distance information. It soon gets used to using the best eye for the job at hand (well, so I've been told by our optitian). Her reading glasses went straight in the bin and she hasn't looked back (so to speak).
The optitian says that the surgeons can correct astigmatsm these days too, with lenses that are inserted with precise vertical alignment to very accurately correct the out-of-round problem with the rest of the system. They can combine this with the long/near correction too, which means I now become a candidate for this correction, which is not easy to resolve with any other single solution.
Now, I'm not suffering from cataracts but it seems that everyone over a 'certain age' has some evidence of cataract sysmpoms, so 'early cataract surgery' is a bit of a lurk, since cataract surgery is covered by Medicare and corrective surgery of this type is elective.
If I can get through the administrative hurdles, I'll be going for it within the next 12 months.
I'm really looking forward to wearing simple sunglasses and straigforward ppe in the workshop, on my motorbike and bicycle, after more than 50 years of corrective lenses and three or four attemts at contact lenses.