…who were overjoyed to be able to see colors brightly again.
I started wearing hard contact lenses at age 21, each eye individually corrected to 20/20, and had great success. My right eye has always been many times weaker than my left, making glasses a lot less than perfect, but what a difference contacts made.
When I hit middle age my contact lens prescription was changed so distance was left and reading was right and my brain adjusted for it. Middle age was when I needed reading glasses anyway.
In my early 50s, LASIK advanced to the point that I became a good candidate for the procedure, and family and friends talked me into it. Once again, mono-vision. Once again, after a period of adjustment. I don’t mind using reading glasses and driving glasses — but the great thing was I didn’t need to all the time.
That was some 20 years ago, and now it’s time for cataract surgery, with the same surgeon as for the LASIK. Again, the left will be the distance eye and the right will be the close-up eye. As the doc points out, my brain has been adjusted to it for over 30 years. My expectations are that I will have supplemental glasses for fine detail — and as I have worn glasses since I was about 9 years old, I am fine with that.
Cheers to us! And God bless medical science! 
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