Wish Me Luck

[Aragorn243]

Tomorrow is my long-awaited cataract surgery. My eyes have been a bit off for three years now. My right is fine but my left has not been correctable for that long. They didn't want to do anything with it until my right was also ready for surgery because my eyesight is so bad. But the left has deteriorated to the point they can't let it go any longer.

In the meantime, I have not gotten new glasses in over two years, so they are scratched and a bit blurry which makes it a challenge for me at my flea markets and yard sales. I obviously still find stuff, but I really have to concentrate on what I'm looking for in all the junk on the tables.

So, I'm not sure how this is going to play out. I'm supposed to have 20/20 distance vision but will need reading glasses to read. For the next two weeks, I either go without my glasses and I'm blind in my dominate eye or I wear the glasses, and my left eye is strained somehow and essentially blinded. I asked about taking the lens out on the left side but was told that won't work as the focal points will be so different.

The unknown is what bothers me the most. Will I be able to work up close on my stuff, cleaning rust off, etc. Will I be able to see my kids targets and be able to score them is my biggest concern. Right now, I take my glasses off and hold them about six inches from my face. Seeing through a rifle scope is another. Everyone says it will be fine, but I've lived with soda bottle glasses for 53 years. I don't know what it will be like. I will become far-sighted rather than near sighted.

They say I can't drive for 24 hours but after that, no restrictions so it can't be that bad. Hoping to still get out on the weekend.