Question:
I'm curious about your surgery. Was it a real cataract, or a Clear Lens
Extraction? What kind of viison did you have before? How good is the
vision in the non-operated eye? Is the Mutlipiece a monofocal or a
multifocal lens?
Answer:
A monofocal was implanted was due to real cataract. The operated eye was
20/100 and the n.o. 20/70 with contacts.
Snellen numbers are pretty worthless at that level. Ace is the only one who
cares, and his "20/4000" answer is as good as any, because he doesn't
realize how those measurements would vary from one person to another, one
room to another, one examiner to another.
The only definition for legal blindness is vision less than 20/200 in the
_better_ eye, _with_ correction. There's no "legal" definition for
uncorrected vision, at least for disability determination and the "blind"
exemption on your tax form.
I know you didn't ask for a definition or a critique but hey, it's a public
website.
I was just wondering; nothing anyone says regarding the definition of
blindness or what my visual acuity is, makes a difference. I am still left
with a bad eye that is worthless without a contact lens, and then pretty
good, and a good eye, which is . . . good.
