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.

I'll bet an optictian could put in a plain lens of appropriate weight.

I'm just afraid it would take two weeks to get the lens replaced.

I bet you could find an optician who could replace the lens in a day, especially with advance notice.

My eye doctor does have an optician section of his office.

edit: And I'm taking that week off for vacation/adjustment purposes.

For installation of a blank lens, you don't have to use the optician associated with your doctor, though they certainly would be a convenient choice if they will accomodate you in terms of same day service and reasonable price.

BYE, poor eyesight does have its lighter moments. I thought there was this big pop singer I'd never heard of called "Simul Al". Then I clicked on the music and realized I'd misread "Sheila E". But really "Simul Al" would be an awesome name for a pop singer.