On 6/16/2026 5:37 AM, wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I went for an eye test and the optometrist said my eyes were borderline for
driving - that was my reason for getting them fixed.
I'm not that far gone - yet. 😉
A new prescription has got me back at good acuity. I get my tests at the UC Berkeley Optometry School. An odd mix;
initial work by an advanced student, then checked by a professor of some sort, a big step up from an ordinary
optometrist. The prof told me that as the cataracts grow, they change the lens shape, so I could expect more frequent
changes. She also suggested some sort of retinal scan, "I can't see anything wrong, but you never know . . ." She also,
without ever directly saying what I should do, let me know that sooner would be better for cataract surgery.
They were particularly bad for night driving with the flare and fact that the
eyes were working at
a large aperture at night.
The new prescription has much alleviated the DoF problem for signs at night,
but the flare is a bit much.
The new lenses got lost temporarily lost somehow on their trip from lab in
Oregon to me, so I had to make do with my back-up glasses in England and
Scotland. No worse than I had become rather used to, and I again navigated
driving on the left from motorways to rural single track roads without
incident, but only a little bit of night driving.
Falling Water Moose
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