Discussion: Commitment

What is the plan for orienteering, then? In the past you often wore a distance contact. Can you wear a contact over your implanted lens?

Yes, same thing, no problem. One choice was monovision, to get one lens for close up and one for distance, but then you are stuck with that all the time. And I decided I didn't want that.

I can certainly understand why you would not want to permanently have two differently focused eyes. I can barely tolerate that for the duration of an o-race.

Results vary, but I'll tell you that my mother's recent cataract surgery went extremely well, she is very pleased at the improvement in her vision. (They did just one eye, and the decision is still pending as to whether to do the other one, as it also has other problems.)

My mom had cataracts removed in her 40s, wandered around for 20 years with very thick glasses, barely able to see at all, before getting implants (finally) and being able to see perfectly fine after all those years.

Yeah, my grandmother had a cataract removed in the pre-implant days and wound up with one of those outlandish lenses, which made her look pretty strange for the rest of her life.

That was where I learned the word "cataract", and it always sounds weird to me when I hear it applied to a waterfall.

One long distance and one near sight can work for some people. I am nearsighted and wore glasses until 1998 when I had a cataract in my right eye fixed with a far distance lens. So I haven't worn glasses since and if works well for both O and normal life.