lol Liza, I dream (Literally) of leaping, running and doing cartwheels like I used to be able to do. Sometimes I wake up so tired because I exercised and ran like the wind in my dreams! I have been noticing the past two weeks how I am now favoring my left side, leg and knee. I was up and down the tomato steps today, planting up some raspberries. I told Dennis it's amazing how I now depend on my right leg/hip (the side of my surgery) and drag my left leg along anymore. Plus when I stand, I tend to put all the weight of my body on my NEW side. Girl, we are gonna be bionic gardeners by summer for sure!

I'm almost 65 years old, wore contacts for 40+ years, had lasic surgery done on both eyes in 2002 (with stellar results, although I suffered from presbyopia, so wore the small, over-the-nose reading glasses when necessary), and in 2008 and 2009 I had cataract surgery performed, one eye each year. Because clarity of vision is exceedingly important to me, because I absolutely did not want anything to do with the mono-vision approach, and because I'm physically active, with lots of outdoor activities, I decided it was worth the money to purchase the special lenses that would allow me to see long distance as well as read. In 2008, I had the ReZoom lense inserted into my right eye. Here's its link: http://www.rezoomiol.com/ In 2009, I had the ReStore lense inserted into the left eye. I think you must have information on this lense, so I've not included a link. With both lenses, there was a "learning curve" while the brain adjusted to the different "readings" on the lense, and learned where to go on the lense to view things in the distance or read. I rarely use "reading" glasses, except in situations where the light is very low or the print is very small. Reading the newspaper or books without my glasses, reading recipes without glasses are just some of the pleasures of using these lenses. Similarly, I can easily see the computer and engage in other mid-range tasks, without using glasses. And my distance vision is very good. I golf, and can easily see the golf balls. When I'm outside, I often am the first to spot a deer or some other sight, and have been frequently complimented on my vision. When I do drive at night, I do so without any qualms. I don't detect any halos around on-coming lights, but I confess I never had this problem with either my contacts or the post-lasic surgery, so maybe my eyes aren't sensitive to lights??? For me, the better reading lense is the ReStore lense, which is why my doctor recommended that lense instead of the ReZoom lense when it came time for the second surgery. But this is really a matter of personal adjustment. As my right eye adjusted to the ReZoom lense, I kept complaining about the reading print being a bit blurry -- I am VERY picky about clarity of vision. So, when it came time to select the lense for the other eye's cataract surgery, we went with the ReStore lense. I think my eye dominance switches between the right and the left eye. Normally, I'm right-eye dominant, and I think this applies for long distance vision. When I'm reading, I think I become left-eye dominant, because I see with excellent clarity...it's like the left eye's ReStore lense over-rides the right eye's ReZoom lense. I can tell you that I have never regretted spending the extra money for these lenses, and that the quality of my vision is very, very good. Each year I test out at 20-20 at my eye exam. Also, in my own case, I'm very glad I had each eye done 12 months apart because that gave me an excellent opportunity to determine how well the first lense was working. I would not have been happy had both eyes had the ReZoom lense, with its less-than-perfect clarity for reading. But I want to emphasize that these are my results, only, and every patient is bound to have her own unique experience. The final point is the importance of a thorough and skilled surgeon. My surgeon obtained many, many readings from the opthomologist that did my lasic surgery in Virginia. In fact, he would not schedule the surgery until he had those readings to ensure he was ordering the correct readings for the implanted lense. And this was on top of the lengthy and many measurements performed on my eyes during the pre-surgery sessions in the office. I hope this information helps.

I can relate...when I had my last cataract done three years ago, I waited a month and it still did not clear up...went for a lens exchange, and it cleared up immediately to better than 20/20. Now I just had my other one done a week ago, and so far, it is not clearing up as I had hoped...but if I have to do another lens exchange, I won't hesitate to do so. I am anxiously waiting for my check-up Thursday. I realized going I to this that eyes that had RK would be much more difficult to correct, but it is what it is....only it is disappointing. I wish him good luck and keep us posted.

For all who are afraid of doing this....don't be. I did not choose to have any sedation, but you can have a sedation and when you wake up, it is all over!....then you put on your dark sun glasses and walk out of the office. Don't expect prefect vision right away...it takes time for all of the swelling to go down...that is very natural. As with my first one on the other eye, I did not have the vision I wanted and I did go have a lens exchange and now I have perfect vision in the other eye...and I expect no less from this one ~ If you are of Medicare age, I would urge you to do this before all of the Obamacare changes come into effect...my optometrist doesn't like what he sees coming our way.