Tomorrow is my last eye check up for my cataract surgeries

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I had cataract surgery about 11 years ago, at the

relatively young age of 62.

I'd been extremely nearsighted all of my life. Couldn't see the blackboard in first grade, even from the front row.

Got glasses before start of second grade. Got new glasses every year thereafter. When I was 16 I got contact lenses, which were a huge improvement.

To simplify a long and complex story, I'd learned by my early 50s that I had beginning cataracts. Then one eye exam, the doctor said,"You need to get cataract surgery." I was distressed, and called an older friend, who immediately said, "Poindexter, get the surgery!" She was right. I elected to get lenses that gave me good distance vision. Excellent choice. I feel as if I can read small signs on distant hills. I do need reading glasses for close up stuff, like actual reading. But I'd been using reading glasses from around the time I'd turned 40 (I'm now 74, you can do the math) and so reading glasses are no big deal.