Hi Devon, I've had cataract surgery in both eyes. I chose to get implanted lenses that corrected my distance vision so I could still drive (to the optician's, for example) if I broke my glasses, so I wear glasses for close work; this logic makes distance vision without glasses a no-brainer for me. I have a pair of bifocals that are close vision at the bottom and correction for computer-distance at the top. I don't like trifocals. It hasn't affected my lacemaking except that things are not as blurry. I think your aversion to the beige card was indeed caused by the cataracts.
My understanding is that your situation would be complicated by the astigmatism. Correction of that via an implanted lens requires a lens that is weighted so it sits at exactly the correct angle in the eye to correct the astigmatism. Everything involved in correcting for astigmatism via the implanted lens makes that lens much more expensive, and riskier in that if the lens is the slightest bit off, you're back to being astigmatic. Perhaps someone can chime in who has had the correction for astigmatism. The reason the surgery only takes 20 minutes in either case is that all the corrections are done when the lens is manufactured; the surgery is just slipping the natural lens out of the clear envelope that holds it in place, and replacing it with the tailored lens -- the same procedure for all configurations. HTH Nancy On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 4:32 PM DevonThein <devonth...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > Has anyone had cataract surgery? How has it affected your lacemaking? What > choices did you make and are you happy with them? > ... - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
