Next Thursday I get my eye operated on.
I have been lucky with my eyesight all my life. As a kid in boy scouts we had to do a full physical before summer camp. During the eye test they asked what was the smallest line I could read, and I said something like "Copyright 1965 eye test company".
I have had 20-20 vision most all my life. Around age 50 I started getting some astigmatism, but mostly when I read a lot of analogue books. I wore glasses only to read to help with the astigmatism.
Now that I am on a computer most of the day, I don't wear glasses at all, except sun glasses while driving, or doing yard work.
My right eye is still great, but the left eye has a worsening cataract. I get my new bionic eye next week. It is a multi-focal lens. So I will be able to see close up, and distance with it again. Right now it is like I have a plastic bag in front of that eye.
The same ophthalmologist that did both of my wife's eyes will do my eye. If I chose a basic lens Medicare pays 100%, if I step up to a better lens, $1,500 or the top of the line, version 3 multi focal is 3 grand. I am going for the expensive one of course. My supplemental insurance does not cover cataract surgery. Medicare pays nothing, as I chose the expensive lens.
The equipment they have at his office to photograph eyes is amazing. One is ultra sound, and another has cameras that can show the shape of my eye, and another for the back of my eye. The doc showed me the images, and said he would do the incision in a certain spot he pointed out, and showed me how cloudy that eye was compared to the right eye. It will be nice to have good vision again in that eye.