[eyeballs] Thinking of going back to contact lenses ... but there's been a middle-age change since then.

[davester]

deckeda wrote:
A cataract "fixed" one of my dad's eyes by necessitating his lens or whatever getting shaved. He still wears glasses because of the other eye.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Cataract surgery (clouding of the eye's lens) requires complete destruction and removal of the formerly focusable natural lens and replacing it with a brownie camera plastic version. I should know...I've had it done. There is no "shaving". It's replacement or nothing, and after that you have zero ability to focus. Most docs have the replacement set on infinity so that you absolutely must have glasses to see anything up close.

[deckeda]

OK maybe it wasn't a cataract. This was about 20 or so years ago. He used to need correction in both eyes and since then, didn't need correction in the one eye. It was definately done in response to a problem in that eye, not something done "to get out of needing glasses."

[Fritz]

http://www.airoptix.com/contact-lenses/a...ocal.shtml

multi-focal

http://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/monovision.htm

mono- vision

[OWC Jamie]

You could always walk around with reading glasses in your pocket, hanging from a chain around the neck or on top of your head.

[graylocks]

Fritz wrote:
http://www.airoptix.com/contact-lenses/a...ocal.shtml

multi-focal

okay, i just looked up my costco optometrist's bio at VaniVision. he does prescribe for multi-focal contacts - which is what i have. despite airoptix's marketing spin, a multi-focal prescription does not require special lenses.

edit: hmmm. finally had time to read second link. maybe the terminology isn't nailed down yet and doctors are using the terms differently? and btw, airoptix 'see the difference' display of how monovision works is very far from my experience of it. my distance vision is not blurry at all.