I had the surgery on my other eye done Thursday, everything seems to be going well. I am trying to get used to not wearing glasses, but I will end up getting new ones in about four weeks because of astigmatism. I can see good without them, and can do well with reading glasses, but it all seems a little strange. I am having to learn some things since the implanted lenses are for distance vision. I tried taking some pictures with my digital camera yesterday and discovered I have to use my reading glasses to do that. My new glasses will be bifocals, so that should not be a problem then. Don in AZ

I think everyone must be muffled under all the snow!!   Glad to hear all went well for you and your eye! Speedy recovery!   tracy --- On Sat, 3/6/10, Don wrote: I had the surgery on my other eye done Thursday, everything seems to be going well. I am trying to get used to not wearing glasses, but I will end up getting new ones in about four weeks because of astigmatism. I can see good without them, and can do well with reading glasses, but it all seems a little strange. I am having to learn some things since the implanted lenses are for distance vision. I tried taking some pictures with my digital camera yesterday and discovered I have to use my reading glasses to do that. My new glasses will be  bifocals, so that should not be a problem then.

Don, I am glad that everything went well for you with your surgery. I am sure you will be all settled in with new glasses and all used to your new vision in fine fettle. About the only difference I have is that I can see pretty clearly out of my left eye now since I had them leave me a little bit nearsighted like I was. That will prevent me from having to wear reading glasses. I went through that once..... the reading glasses bit. I was wearing contacts and they told me I needed to start wearing reading glasses. Well I bought one pair. Yep, just one. It took me less than a day to need another pair because that one pair was just never where I needed them to be. I think I ended up with about four pairs because I needed one at work, one at home, one in the car, and one in my purse. I tried wearing one of the eyeglass keepers around my neck, but the glasses always seemed to be in the way, banging into something every time I bent over, or I was trying to dig them out from under a jacket or a coat. Uggh!!! The next time I needed an Rx change, I went back to regular glasses. I figured if I needed to wear glasses anyway, I might as well just go back. It was a whole lot less frustration! I hope you have better luck with reading glasses than I did. But you men always seem to have a pocket to put them in to keep track of them. Hugs, Mary -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Don Churchfield Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 11:51 AM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: [PD-LIFE] Sure is quiet I had the surgery on my other eye done Thursday, everything seems to be going well. I am trying to get used to not wearing glasses, but I will end up getting new ones in about four weeks because of astigmatism. I can see good without them, and can do well with reading glasses, but it all seems a little strange. I am having to learn some things since the implanted lenses are for distance vision. I tried taking some pictures with my digital camera yesterday and discovered I have to use my reading glasses to do that. My new glasses will be bifocals, so that should not be a problem then. Don in AZ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message