My mom had that surgery at age 74, and she came out with nearly 20/20 vision. I was jealous!

It's pretty much the same surgery as I had, only they don't take off a cataract first. The lens is basically the same, though, that they insert.

The more I think about it, the more I think... hell, the last pair of progressive lenses cost me $800. I wonder what the inevitable trifocals will cost? How much money will I spend on glasses over the rest of my life? Over the long term, I might actually be saving money with the surgery. Not to mention, the seeing.

But I'm chicken.

Yeah, I would love surgery that would cut my glasses cost. But right now not an option. I'm just hoping my current treatment gets me to the point where I can read and do office work again. The problem is not just that one eye is 20/100 and the other 20/50. But even corrected to that letters are kind of fuzzy and tend to dance around.

Not Strixy or her sister on the bitch comment.

Well... not THAT kind of bitch.

Suuure, Trudy...

I am ridiculously excited to go to Costco after payday! Cheap La Croix! Cheap chicken thighs to last 3 weeks of recipes! Huge bottles of lemon juice!

My vision correction is within the "margin of error" on the surgery, so I'm not a candidate. I have one near-sighted eye and one far-sighted eye, plus major astigmatism. I'm able to get my glasses from Zenni and have done so for the last 5 or so years.

I need to get in, get a new prescription, and eventually new glasses. I've worn tri-focal progressives for years and it is only now that I find myself looking through the whole range to find the best reading focus, so I KNOW I need new ones.

People who have had the surgery: How did you manage your glasses between getting the two eyes fixed? I'm worried about driving with one fixed eye and one crappy one.

Connie, it was a bitch. I don't drive, but even riding the bus was iffy - I couldn't focus and my depth perception was screwed up. I think the doctor did my dominant eye first, so it was corrected for distance and my other eye, which was much weaker, needed glasses to see anything at all.

I tended to keep one eye closed as much as possible.

Of course, the alternative was being blind as the cataracts got worse, so it wasn't really an option. And I found that the cataracts were distorting my color perception - everything I saw through them had a yellow cast (quite a surprise when I went through my closet - the blue-green shirt was blue).

Sounds like I should stay off the freeway for that month. It's already nearly Death Race 2000 on there. Without the lineup of old people for points.

I only had two weeks between my operations.

The lovely Vortex (who was living not too far away at the time) picked me up from the first and drove me to the second, hung around while they did the operation, and then drove me home. I did provide her with a freshly brewed cappuccino, knowing that the waiting room coffee was likely to be bad, but it seems insufficient.

Hubby's daughter will be my ride to and from the surgeries.

I'm half thinking of pulling the right lens out of my glasses after the first surgery and attaching a little weight for balance.