20/20 Vision again!

[TheTman]

I just had my 2nd cataract surgery Monday, and I now have 20/20 vision in both of my eyes. They shot a laser into my eyeballs to measure them, and built any needed correction into the lenses they implanted into my eyes. Man it's nice to not need glasses anymore, except reading glasses for reading and doing things close up. I do have to go to the Drivers License office and bring a note from the Eye Doctor that they corrected my vision and have the Corrective Lenses Needed removed from my DL. I'll probably wait a week or so to do that, my eye is still a little swollen and not quite down to 20/20, it measured 20/25 yesterday, but once the swelling goes down it should be 20/20.
It's funny, my left eye got all blurry to where I couldn't see out of it and went in for an eye exam and he said I had a bad cataract in my left eye, and a not so bad one in my right eye. I noticed that after my left eye healed up, that white things appeared bright white, but when looking through my right eye, everything had a brown tint to it. Now everything looks brighter and there is no tint in either eye.
I wish I had done this years ago, but I didn't know I had cataracts until my left eye got too blurry to see out of. It was gradual, so it was hard to notice, and seemed like the blurriness came and went, until one day it never cleared up.
I watched some cataract surgeries on You Tube to know what to expect, and it looks pretty gruesome, all the stuff they poke right into your eye, under the outer Cornea I think its called, (the clear part on the outside of your eye), but they numbed the eyes up real well, and I barely felt a thing. Plus they had an IV with some happy juice hooked up, so it wasn't bad at all.

[wyntrout]

That's great!

My far vision is pretty good, but my near vision sucks. I use 2.50 reading glasses and recently got some polycarbonate shooting glasses with the 2.50 bifocal part on the top. I've only tried them once, but it's supposed to help with focusing on the front sight and then raising your head a tiny bit to see what you're aiming at.

Wynn :)

[TheTman]

Thanks,
I was able to see the front sight pretty well, using my left eye after it had healed up. I just need the reading glasses for things well within an arms length distance. I just hope my left eye didn't become dominant while waiting for my right eye surgery. I may have to put a patch over the left eye for awhile after the right eye heals up to make it the dominant eye again.

[OldFatGuy]

Congratulations! I had lasik over 15 years ago to correct my lousy vision. I had to put on my glasses to see the floor in the morning. I know what it's like to see again. I have readers of various strengths all over the place, never have to look for them, something is right there.

[justoldjoe]

Congratulations, It is a remarkable change isn't it. I wore contacts for about 20 years and they worked. But the biggest change I immediately noticed after cataract surgery was how much brighter everything was. Hell, I forgot what white looked like. All colors took on a whole new dimension. And I must say I saw the front sight on the MK9 a whole lot sharper.

[CJB]

They told you if you didn't stop, you'd go blind!

Glad its a good to go thing!

My eyes, still manageable with bifocals.

The hearing... is pretty much a goner.

[b4uqzme]

Good deal! My eyesight is hanging in there. I only need readers. My hearing is pretty good too. My LISTENING is another matter altogether. :rolleyes:

[jeepster09]

Oh....all this eye talk...I have to go for eye surgery in the morning. I recently developed a detached retina in my left eye. I was hoping to get sympathy $#x :hurt: but no such luck...wife not buying it.

[O'Dell]

Congrats! I had lens replacement in both eyes 7 or 8 years ago - greatest move I could have made. No more glasses except "sun" of course.

[Bills1873]

Red dot sights sure do help the visually impaired!

[AJBert]

Glad to hear your eyes are back. Hopefully, my eyes will last many, many more years. I do have prescription glass but only need them when I REALLY need to see, such as hunting or driving at night in a place I'm not familiar with. I still pass the eye test every time I renew my DL.

Funny story, at least to me, about cataracts. My dad needed cataract surgery a few years ago but didn't have a clue what all it entailed. He's not on the internet and doesn't have a smart phone so he only knew what others had told him that had had the surgery. I, being somewhat of a prankster, told that the replaced his lenses with those from pigs. He said he didn't believe me, initially, but I persisted. Think I actually convinced as he went to his eye doctor and asked.

He was a bit pissed at me but he sees better now than he has in years!

[Bawanna]

Boy you are the prankster ain't cha? Had I done that to my dad I would have looked like road kill.

I gotta go get looked at, my vision seems to be on a downward trend. I just need glasses for reading but seems like I need more powerful ones than I got.

Maybe some pig lenses would work for me. Glass's don't go too good with my gigilo business.

[muggsy]

If you look at it through the bifocal part of yer new glasses Bawanna you'll be surprised how big yer gigolo business has grown. :)

[Bobshouse]

My wife had the same thing done a few years ago. She came out of surgery and said "Who the heck are you old man?". I knew she could see better then.

[TheTman]

LOL, some good stories here. Thanks for the well wishes. It sure is cool how everything looks so nice and bright, and white is really white now, colors are more intense. I wish I'd done this years ago. Can't wait to get out and do some shooting and see if it improves any. Probably not, but I'll "see" (pun intended). Probably wait a week or so, for all the swelling to go down and my vision to stabilize.

[Armybrat]

So white colors show up better here?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vUlgtp1FL._SY445_.jpg

[Bawanna]

Give me a minute, I need to study this and give my heart a chance to level out a bit and perhaps catch my breath too.

[muggsy]

To be a gigolo you have to be a stand-up kind a guy. :)

[TheTman]

Oh Yeah, I like that white bikini, and what's in it more.

[Bobshouse]

Oh Yeah, I like that white bikini, and what's in it more.

White bikini? Dam, I thought those were tan lines, maybe I need my eyes fixin.