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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Glad to hear Rumpel is feeling a little better. Peter, I hope you get your lens soon! I'm not looking forward to the day I'll be old enough for cataract surgery.
Most people I've known who had cataract surgery were probably in their 70's but I've known some in their 60's and one in his 50's. I'm in my 50's now so who knows when my turn will come....
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Cataract surgery has come a LONG way. It's now pretty much routine, and the results are very good in most cases. I ended up with good enough vision that I don't need glasses at all. For knitting, I do sometimes put on some reading glasses to give me better depth perception up close, and I have a rigid gas permeable contact lens that I can wear in my distance eye if I want extra sharpness. (I ended up with just a bit of astigmatism in that eye, and nothing gets rid of astigmatism better than a hard contact lens. But for sitting around the house, watching TV? Or even, technically, for driving, it's purely optional.)