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The missus just had a detached retina diagnosed last Tue Afternoon. The optometrist referred her to an opthalmologist (same that does the Doc's mother's eyes, so that's a good referral). We'd seen a post on the board (PPOT search is better than google!) that said "don't eat or drink before that appt, so she didn't eat or drink in the morning. The appt was at 830. They took pics, saw issue (thankfully, hadn't gotten to the macula) and scheduled emergency surgery (vitrectomy) which started about 3 hours later, 5 hours from arrival for the appt and we were on our way home. It's going to be more of a recovery process than the lens replacement. The first 24 hours she had to spend face down, including when sleeping. Now for the next week, she's got to be upright and facing forward including when sleeping. The face forward sleeping thing has proved basically impossible, so they said that she could sleep face down as she stays upright the rest of the time. She had some cataracts starting to show. This is supposed to accelerate cataracts so she'll probably need that surgery sooner than later.

I'm curious, I assume the new lens can fix either near or far vision, but not both since you do still have to focus.