Re: cataract surgery

Am 21.02.2025 um 00:48 schrieb Mark J cleary:

On 2/20/2025 4:08 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    jeffl@cruzio.com

 Jeff,
Thanks for the information. I am inclined almost to call your situation seems very different than most I have talked to. Mt first question is how old are you? THE copay is $300 for me but any laser option would be $3900 for both eyes. No real better guarantee. Medicare will not pay for laser but I don't have medicare.
 How is your uncorrected distance vision? Could you pass a driver test without needing any glasses? My history is I am highly myopic -12 and -13 in each eye. That put me in the top 1 percent of all nearsighted people.

Similar to my wife.  She had on the order of -10 on the right eye and -15 on the left eye; as LASIK in the past claimed not to be able to repair -15, she did not bother with it and relied on contact lenses.
This also greatly increased the probability of a retina detachment, which she had around the age of 45.  The SF6 treatment of the detached retina had the known side effect of "needing a cataract surgery with 30% probability", so she had cartatact treatments (on both eyes) before the age of 50.  Continuing the old eye imbalance, she chose to have the right eye set to -0.5 and the left eye for more near vision.  She then needed glasses (right eye blank) for the car and (left eye blank) for intense reading but not for everyday use, including bicycling (one eye good enough for far vision) and shopping (one eye good enough to read the detalis on the package).
However, a few years later she got "cloudy vison" on the distance eye, which means she now needs to use the distance glasses a lot more than expected originally.