My MIL did it for distance rather then one eye for reading one for distance and still wears glasses. I always think to myself why didn't she research more before she did it? She uses the internet to read the NYT's, send spam email and write letters to everyone she has ever met. I don't think she knows what google is or perhaps she also would not of had her eyebrows tattooed in a clownish fashion what used to be some shade of red but have now become a faded purple.
I WISH I was a candidate. I actually had the last big accident in my house bending over in the backyard and hitting a stucco barbecue island and making me look like I had gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson. That motivated me to get it done. Sadly I have a rare degenerative eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa. The same eye condition Steve Wynn has, the owner of Wynn in Vegas and the man behind Bellagio and before that the Mirage. He changed the face of Vegas and is an impressive man with all the money in the world and he hasn't found a cure for himself yet either. Kind of depressing that if something is rare they don't spend the money to come up with a cure because it won't be profitable. I won't even get into how many male problems I see treated on tv.
So sorry to hear about that. I have a friend whose hubby and SIL both have RP. They are planning to have their daughter tested next year when she'll be old enough to cooperate (they hope). It stinks that rare conditions get little to no funding for studies.Our daughter has another rare eye condition with few treatment options. And those have been taken from similar, but more common, conditions like macular degeneration and colon cancer. (Wierd, but true.)
ETA my eye dr wears glasses, not all are candidates for this kind of surgery. I also can't wear contacts as with the shape of my eyes the contacts don't rotate right. Everyone wants to know why I don't get lasik if I tell them I am legally blind. Some conditions aren't treated by lasik and doesn't reflect on the Dr.
