Author: Late_returner
Date: 2020-05-24 11:17
My recent experience may be of some help.
I had the surgery on my right eye in mid March, just before UK lockdown. The surgeon offered lens which favoured close vision, distant vision , or both. When i asked why anyone would not chose "both" he told me that pensioners often take a long time to adjust to this lens, a period of 6 months plus not uncommon, while the others were easier. This seemed a long while to have dodgy vision, although had i realised about lockdown curtailing everything i may have wanted to explore further. Although we discussed my playing , score reading etc, we settled on the distance lens as the most useful for my totality.
The op has been successful and i am pleased with the result. I was expecting my close vision to be less effective than it actually is - for example i am typing this on a small tablet keyboard without glasses about 8 inches away. ( but Im reviewing it with glasses on !) Its by no means " distance viewing only" . The only inconvenience so far is ( a) daylight is so much brighter (b) have only had a single follow up due to lockdown, so I am not sure whether the stern prohibition against bending down is still in force. I believe if we were not in lockdown preparations to do the left eye quite soon would be in hand.
I can play music with or without reading glasses, and can still use the vari focals that i had pre the op. In fact i do tend to wear the vari focals more than i strictly need, and i guess this is partly long habit and partly ( horror spoiler alert) cos a friend who was a airline pilot lost his air quality sight certificate when shards resulting from a poor car windsceen replacement job flew up from the heater blower. So i tend to value the shield properties of glasses when Im driving , pruning the roses etc.
So my experience has confirmed the distance option, but dumping the glasses was never that big a deal for me.
Good luck on Tuesday !
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