Re: 39 dollar glasses


"Dan Abel" <dabel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dabel-98FC14.14242928042006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The eye doctor will recommend what works best for most people.

For most people, a very simple pair of eyeglasses work best. But people
are encouraged to desire more complex and expensive solutions.

I've talked to a bunch of people, and read posts on this group. I also
have a wife. I think you have one of those also?

My wife would not be seen dead in anything cheap and/or unfashionable.
She relies heavily on her eye guy as a fashion consultant.

They all want a pair of glasses that they can slap on and leave on.

Not really. She has a reading pair, a computer pair, an outdoor pair,
a driving pair, and some other pairs which, for some reason, she does
not use much anymore.

I was very happy that my surgeon actually talked to me. I made the
decision, but we talked about it at length. Others on this group have
complained about surgeons who made the decision without talking to their
patient.

My particular surgeon is known locally to be gruff and extremely
uncommunicative. There was no opportunity for me to discuss my
preferences. I would have chosen distance over midrange, but the
IOL fitter mentioned there was a 0.5D disparity between the results
of alternative algorithms for the selection of their optical power, so I
assumed a midrange value would be chosen to avoid the hyperopic
possibility. I was very apprehensive going into surgery, and, after the
second surgery, to find out that the second eye was very closely
parfocal with the first.

My guess is that there are some uncertainties in selecting the IOLs,
and that I was very lucky to get the outcome I did. But it very well
may be due to the skill of the surgeon. I have come across several
people who, with IOLs, still need eyeglasses for everything, probably
usually due to residual astigmatism.

I suspect that they realized that the patients didn't have a sufficient
understanding to make a decision.

There is another thing, deeper than that. Professional people can get
very upset with nonprofessional people who presume that they can
use the professional words and/or can understand their problem to any
degree.

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Dicky

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