I can see clearly now… with both eyes!
No one can say I lack patience, the eyeball journey dragged on for 18 months starting December 2023. After the left eye cataract was done and disappointed with very blurred vision weeks rolled into months and finally (not happy) referred to a cornea specialist.
At the first consultation she identified I also have Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy (FED) aka Fuchs’ dystrophy in both eyes with the left eye much worse that the right.

The fix for that is a DMEK (Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty) procedure, a specialized partial-thickness corneal transplant procedure that replaces only the innermost layer of the cornea, the Descemet membrane and endothelium.

Basically I am now a donor recipient but in this case it is a graft not actually a transplant as in a body part. What I get fits on a finger tip, a circular disc of healthy donor cornea – amazing. The membrane is typically about 10-15 micrometers thick, significantly thinner than a human hair, which is roughly 50-70 micrometers in diameter – again amazing!

I was invited to send thanks to the doner family (or member) which I did. The graft like a transplant will always be foreign to my body, leading to the possibility of transplant rejection down the track.

Anyway… picked up my glasses from Specsavers this afternoon, driving and readers both with transition. I was concerned about the right lens as the optometrists results for that eyeball are really weird. A normal reader lens will not work for looking straight at a computer screen then looking down at the keyboard, phone or book. The only choice was a graduated two zone lens (not bifocal) and I have to follow my nose (no laughter) between screen and keyboard instead of looking down with just the eyeballs.

The driving pair is magnificent and I won’t be leaving them in car anymore, they will reside on the table next to my TV recliner because I can now clearly see the big screen over on the wall and even read the program synopsis – yay.